Awful Tone to Amazing Tone

SamuraiDad should have his own channel. Id love to see him build stuff.

I thought the overdrives were pretty muddy, sounded better after eqing but could still use some more upper mids

The di sound wasn't even that bad, add a little reverb and you've got a usable tone imo.

IMO clean sound was way better than drive.

If anyone ever doubts that you're Canadian, just show them the first 25 seconds of this video

There aren't any bad tones. Just tones you haven't found a way to use yet. Loads of bands have discovered their sound by using previously 'bad' sounding gear.

What I’ve found is that once you’ve found the tone you like, inspiration flows more easily. When you’re fighting for a tone, you’re never truly in the groove, since you’re constantly critically analyzing your tone.

“So that was a world of difference” Me, listening on phone speakers: nods

The fact that you are wearing yourself as a shirt still makes me laugh, even after having watched it a million times now

I can make any amazing tone sound awful

I am that kind of guy that apreciates bad tones, it has something about it that makes it sound closer and more relatable.

I was loving the steady improvements but then I wasn't very fond of the sound of those drive pedals. I would love to hear more steady improvement staying on the clean side of things. Like, from bedroom amp to John Mayer.

i really thought there was gonna be a Tone 10 where he would have added the korg miku

Listening to his worst tone and thinking ‘hmm, that sounds like an arctic monkeys solo’

When your strings are twice the age of your kids, but not even half as dirty.

I do love the SamuriDad brand amp and reverb tank. That's too cool. It would be something I'd build for my grandkids, if I could do electronics. I'll just stick to setting up their instruments for now.

The clean tones sounded the best., all the distorted ones sounded like I was underwater until you equalised it. Tone 5 with the compressor was probably the best.

1. I liked the first tone...not sure why you think it's awful 2. Also sounded good 3. Sounded pretty darn good 4. Good, but I honestly liked 3 just as much, if not more 5. Five sounds great! 6. Ooh, that's a nice distortion pedal! Quite smooth, but then you played some bluesy licks, which added an interesting contrast 7. That sounds cool! It would be quite nice for when I'm in the mood to listen to something reverberated, but I also like it to sound dry oftentimes 8. Sounds good 9. Sounds good EDIT: When you made it into a country rock song, I understood why you said that the other tones were better. They were better for the song, certainly, but I think that in other songs the earlier ones would sound better.

Nuttin wrong with that Squier eh ! It sounded fine even with 20 year old strings. I would like to have seen you go through the entire video with the Squier , after changing out the strings. :)

The DI tone didn't sound too bad, but try a hi-gain amp sim with the cab sim turned off. Now that's horrible!