best guitar clean tone

Gain is fun in all its forms, from overdrive to fuzz, but letā€™s talk about a great clean tone.


Weā€™re all here for one thing. Itā€™s the singular sound and magic of the stringed instrument called the guitarā€”and its various offshoots, including the bass. Okay, so maybe itā€™s more than one thing, but the sentiment remains. Even as I write this, my thoughts fan out and recognize how many incarnations of ā€œguitarā€ there must be. Itā€™s almost incomprehensible. Gut-string, nylon-string, steel-string, 12-string, 8-string, 10-string, flatwound, brown sound, fuzztoneā€¦. Itā€™s almost impossible to catalog completely, so Iā€™ll stop here and let you add your favorites. Still, thereā€™s one thing that I keep coming back to: clean tone.

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