From Fat & Dark to Clear & Cutting | My New Guitar Tone

My guitar tone philosophy has changed a lot recently. I used to prefer darker, smoother amp tones with a ton of low mids because they sounded massive by themselves. But once I started paying more attention to live mixes, I realized those tones were getting buried. Now I’ve been leaning heavily into Vox/Matchless-style captures that have more upper mids, clarity, and chime — especially this Chieftain-style capture on the TONEX One. In this video, I compare my old tone approach vs my current one, explain why the change happened, and talk about how cutting through a mix matters more than sounding huge in solo practice. 0:00 Intro 0:47 What I'm going to talk about 1:21 The Problem with my favorite amps 2:24 Using Vox/Matchless Style Amps 3:45 My Old Capture 5:21 The Chieftain Capture on TONEX One 6:45 Why Midrange Matters More Than Bass 7:23 Playing Examples 10:51 What I Learned About “Good Tone” Signal Chain: Guitar - Tom Anderson S style Goodwood Audio Underfacer Suhr Koji Comp Vemuram Jan Ray Browne Amplification Carbon Tonex one Eventide H90 Strymon Dig V1 Strymon Bigsky Goodwood Audio Underfacer Stereo Neve D.I Universal Audio Volt 276 DAW Ableton