I reckon that when it comes to getting a good guitar tone, you have to look at it as if each part of the guitar, pickup, and amp system is really a number of components working in synergy to produce the resulting tone, this also includes the musician playing the guitar too, and his/her playing style, this is why a musician, say Eddie Van Halen for example, sounds different to someone like Yngwie Malmsteen.

Ultimately, it's a case of "It's not what you use, but how you use it", one person's great guitar tone, is another person's horrible guitar tone.


I, myself, started off with the typical scooped-midrange Heavy Metal kind of guitar tone when I was younger, but lately I've been getting more into the midrangey edge-of-breakup kind of Blues guitar tone.