Understanding Guitar Tone: Recording and Performance

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Course outline

1. 1. Hear tone as a musical role
2. 2. The player is the first tone control
3. 3. Pickups, loading, and guitar controls
4. 4. Build a signal path you can explain
5. 5. Separate input drive from output level
6. 6. Distortion, harmonics, and note separation
7. 7. EQ before drive and EQ after drive
8. 8. Compression and the shape of a note
9. 9. Noise, bypass, and useful silence
10. 10. Modulation as controlled motion
11. 11. Delay, repeats, and the spaces between notes
12. 12. Reverb and a believable sense of space
13. 13. Speakers, cabinets, and recording perspective
14. 14. Combine paths without losing the guitar
15. 15. Make the recorded tone work in the arrangement
16. 16. Translate the tone to performance
17. 17. Effect families: what changes, and what drives the change
18. 18. Build a pedalboard with an audible purpose
19. 19. Buffers, loading and the OBEL distinction
20. 20. Attack-driven filters and silence-reset swells
21. 21. Choose an amplifier by behavior
22. 22. Cabinets, microphone types and profile choices
23. 23. Series and parallel: clarity, character and space
24. 24. Build rhythm, lead and spacious tones for the song