When sound makes the music

I came back from today’s rehearsal and I only have one thing in my mind: I was surprised by how well my old combo is working, how good the sound it. Until now, because of commodity, I played on the combo I had there, brand new, but still, a cheap one, Harley Benton.

I tried hard to fix the sound, worked on my processor EQ settings, I though the pickups of the guitar are the problem but no matter what I tried, I could not make it sound well. Today I brought in my old combo and God, I was surprised by how it sounds. My combo is not a brand one, it is an old(and quite cheap, I bought it second hand about 9 years ago and didn’t fix anything since then) Russian combo, Accord is the name and it is …a bass combo, or at least this is what I think it writes there, even if I have no damn clue of Russian language, is writes something like “bass”. Well, I can tell you that it has such a rich and fat sound that I just love it. I have 1 general volume, 1 gain, treble, bass and 2 mid-range knobs and it looks like it survived a war, but when I play it I love it! Or maybe is just me, but it gives such a fat sound that makes me feel playing on loose, low tension strings, even if I have medium strings.

Today I felt that everything went better, suddenly my fingers obeyed me, I didn’t suck (that much), and everything because my amp gave me THE SOUND!

I guess that the person who said that “sound makes the music” was damn right!

That person surely was a guitar player and he had a good amp! For sure!

PS: On similar topic, also read Jack Pribek’s We are the seekers of tone

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