The One Thing Every Influential Guitar Tone Has In Common

Less than 1% of guitar players know this.

0:00 - "But What Does It Sound Like In The Room?"
1:21 - What Is Good Guitar Tone?
4:00 - So The Sound In The Room Doesn't Matter
5:39 - The Importance Of A/B Tests
7:16 - Does YouTube Mangle The Audio?
8:56 - But What About Room Mics?
12:09 - But What About Going Direct?
12:40 - But What About Vibration/Resonance?
13:29 - The Toboggan
15:48 - Psychological
16:15 - Influential Guitar Tones Are A Chain

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All of the sounds you hear in this video were performed by me, my friends, and my heroes.

Background Music Credits:
0 minutes 6 seconds into the video:
Title: Blue Sky
Artist: Jessie Ritter
Album: Little Town In America (2022)
Producer: Jim Lill
Electric Guitars: Jim Lill, J.T. Corenflos
Acoustic Guitars, Banjo: Bryan Sutton
Pedal Steel Guitar: Gary Morse
Bass: Jimmy Carter
Drums: Steve Brewster

0 minutes 31 seconds, 1 minute 50 seconds, 6 minutes 35 seconds, 7 minutes 6 seconds, and 15 minutes 56 seconds into the video:
Title: Little Town In America
Artist: Jessie Ritter
Album: Little Town In America (2022)
Producer: Jim Lill
Electric Guitars: Jim Lill, J.T. Corenflos
Acoustic Guitars: Bryan Sutton
Pedal Steel Guitar: Gary Morse
Bass: Jimmy Carter
Drums: Steve Brewster

1 minute 21 seconds, and 18 minutes 6 seconds into the video:
Title: Staring Into The Pedal Steel
Artist: Jim Lill
Pedal Steel Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar, Electric Guitars, Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin, Bass, and Drums: Jim Lill
Unreleased, go to the end of the video to hear the full version by itself

4 minutes 54 seconds into the video:
Title: I'm Gonna Smile
Artist: Jessie Ritter
Album: TBA (2023)
Producer: Jim Lill
Acoustic Guitar: Jim Lill

5 minutes 42 seconds into the video:
Title: Gone To See America
Artist: Jessie Ritter
Album: TBA (2023)
Producer: Jim Lill
Acoustic Guitars, Banjo: Jim Lill
Bass: Kori Caswell
Drums: Steve Brewster

7 minutes 29 seconds, and 8 minutes 33 seconds into the video:
Title: Border Town
Artist: Jessie Ritter
Album: Little Town In America (2022)
Producer: Jim Lill
Electric Guitars: J.T. Corenflos
Acoustic Guitars: Bryan Sutton
Pedal Steel Guitar: Gary Morse
Bass: Jimmy Carter
Drums: Steve Brewster

The rest is random stuff I recorded just for this video.

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What is your favorite guitar tone?

I spent years hopping from pedal to pedal, amp to amp, trying to get better and better tone. It didn't really get me anywhere. I didn't understand why I still had good moments and bad moments.

Then one day I decided to ask myself the question "What is my favorite guitar tone?"

I wrote down a few examples and started a relentless pursuit into finding out how they were made, and I discovered that I was getting something very fundamental very wrong.

This video shares the one thing every influential guitar tone has in common.

-Jim, 3/20/2023