MXR Yngwie Malmsteen overdrive...

oh please, there hasn't even been a personal attack having nothing to do with pedals yet ... once you cross that threshold, all bets are off
 
Aentons said:
Personally, I don't get Bonamasa, Satriani, and Eric Johnson.and other really generic sounding types. It doesn't really matter if you can play well, if the stuff you play is boring or totally uninteresting.
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I guess it’s subjective. I don’t find it boring or generic. It does get a little old if I listen to it all week.
 
Aentons said:
The studio recordings of Randy are terrible. I did not appreciate him until the Ozzy Tribute album. His live tone is pretty great compared to those super shitty sounding studio albums. He is famous for bringing the neo-classical thing into heavy rock. Plus....That boy sho could play.

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PA guys can make or brake a musician and as agreed upon in studio recordings.
However, the people that think Randy's live tone was not good are funking morons and never seen him live than.
He had great tone and it was unique.
 
cdwillis said:
I apologize for the spoiler, but there's no way this isn't a DOD250 clone. Look at his previous YJM308 pedal. It had a 1nf input capacitor and used one half of a 4558 op amp, but was basically a stock 250 circuit:

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Yeah, I'm thinking about getting one of these just to confirm design, but I'm confident that it's going to be a DOD YJM308 clone.
I actually do have the original JYM308 and LOVE it! IT's got tones of gain and volume, but it is more of a clean OD boost than color it, like a D+ would. Likewise, with the micro chosen, it's more Hi-Fi and low-noise.
 
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I guess the problem with virtuosity is that after practising and training yourself to be able to play extremely proficiently you want to use that skill. And if you become known for having that skill your audience expects to see and hear it, the more the better. Speed and accuracy are no guarantee of good music though. And in practise the constant use of speedy runs and flashy technique can in fact obscure the music and connection with the audience. You'll always find plenty of guys who love the display of dexterity and probably most of them are wannabe guitarists.

I don't mind a bit of flash here and there if used in service of the song but too often the song becomes merely a vehicle to showcase this amazing technique. Without proper context it doesn't mean anything.

When I first got into guitar I like a lot of beginning players was impressed by fast flashy guitarists. After a while though it got boring and I noticed that some of the songs I connected to the most emotionally were "embarrassingly" simple. Not necessarily easier to play but far less reliant on flash and technique. Sometimes just a great guitar sound can floor me.
 
There is value to testing and pushing the limits of one’s performance, sure. But it is not the pinnacle. It’s just an intermediate step.

After one can shred at ridiculous speeds, there’s a whole other world of knowing when not to play. To be reserved. Like the Lion on the hunt or the dude with the most suped-up muscle car in town, you know you don’t have try and impress anybody.

But when you focus on being musical and expressing yourself, you’ll have the tools at your disposal bust into some crazy shredding shit.
 
I find it a little funny that we're speculating and extrapolating on how closely playing fast is related to being a bad songwriter, when the topic itself is about probably the absolute worst example of that thing. I don't think it's necessarily indicative of a general trend that much.

I'm not a huge instrumental music fan, I like vocals with mine, so I'm not that deeply into the shredders in general. But I do like some songs from some of the big names, so here's some examples of what I consider to be good songs (or if you don't like them, at least it should be obvious it's not just shredding for the sake of shredding) by people who can play really fucking fast:




(technically a Racer X song and not solo work - but just fucking look at that pinky finger, it's a little unfair. Scarified would also be a great pick)

And a little less known bonus:


Even when they go fast, it has a purpose. Of course there's also often a lot of flashy and fast playing, but I think that partially comes with having an instrumental song - when you're carrying the whole song with your guitar, you have to do a lot of interesting things to keep it going, and that also means resorting a lot to playing fast, IMO. I guess jazz people also do instrumental songs with slow playing, so it's absolutely possible, but I don't really like jazz so I can't talk about that.
 
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