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Why is it that every time I go into a music shop and someones trying out a guitar, its always distortion or overdriven sounds I hear. Cant rember last time I heard a clean sound from someone trying out a guitar!

Hi Neil

If you want to avoid it then don't visit a music shop on Saturdays or school holidays!

Cheers.

Tony

I agree- most folk immediately use distortion etc and play too loud when trying gear in music shops...

However, I have found that, these days, when I want to try a guitar through an amp,the young blokes working in music shops immediately plug me in, and adjust the amp to the "clean" channel....maybe they automatically correctly guess that, as a near-senior citizen, I want to hear what the guitar itself sounds like....

Then there's where you go into a shop and someone is
attempting to play Stairway To Heaven!

Amanda

Or Smoke on the Water!!

cockroach wrote:I agree- most folk immediately use distortion etc and play too loud when trying gear in music shops...

However, I have found that, these days, when I want to try a guitar through an amp,the young blokes working in music shops immediately plug me in, and adjust the amp to the "clean" channel....maybe they automatically correctly guess that, as a near-senior citizen, I want to hear what the guitar itself sounds like....

Its maybe the Hank Marvin glasses and Geordie accent that gives you away

When you got into some shops to look at guitars at your leasure, sometimes you cant hear yourself think for the racket they make. Christ we can all crank up the volume and with full distortion play the same way, it aint hard, its all effects thats doing it. As said, you have no way of knowing if you have a good guitar or not if you dont clean up the sound a bit.

There were some music shops that had signs up saying "No Stairway To Heaven". It must have driven some of the staff bonkers.

Go to guitar shops on Monday mornings..... bliss.

Bliss till Ecca gets there!