MysteryGuitarMan Tone?

[Chriscross]

I've always been a fan of MGM for his video editing, but when he uses his electric guitar, I think his tone is just...well...bad. Whenever I watch videos of him playing an electric guitar, it reminds me of little kids trying to show off with their guitar starter kits. What do you guys think?

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iRXMxqcPrw[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pckdck5ZzE[/youtube]

 

[hachikid]

man.....that tone is just garbage.....guitar center, anyone?.....

 

[Mor Paul]

Wow, that is kinda sucky. Sounds like my line6 spider III, but worse  :sad1:

 

[back2thefutre]

who's that guy ?

 

[Cletus]

Wow, that is kinda sucky. Sounds like my line6 spider III, but worse  :sad1:

Fark, I sound better than that and I have one of those amps. (not for long , working on it )

And he screwed up a part in the Star Wars one.

 

[reinhold]

It sounds like he's playing a paper jamz guitar.

 

[nexrex]

Wow, that is kinda sucky. Sounds like my line6 spider III, but worse  :sad1:

I would say "sucky" is a huge understatement. In that last clip the ukulele actually sounds better than that guitar.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

While agreeing the tone is non-existent, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that it's a technique issue and not necessarily gear related.  I don't know what he's using, but I'm sure it's cheap, not to say that anyone else couldn't get a better tone on the same stuff.  If I were guessing, oh wait, I am, I think it's not a mic'd amp but a bad DI with clipping.

 

[SustainerPlayer]

I think his tuner is broken. And that's not the sound of a guitar that's the sound of an angry swarm of bees incoming ...

But he has got that entertainment mojo going for him.

 

[Ace Flibble]

I really don't think he's even trying to have a great tone. I think that's partially the point. He's clearly not trying to be some serious show-off (as makes up 99% of guitar videos on youtube). Dude's just dicking about, I would assume.

 

[richship]

That's just the sort of thing YouTube is for and the lo-fi approach is working for him.

 

[mullyman]

I want to pluck his eyebrows.
MULLY

 

[m4rk0]

nooo... my ears!!!
yeah intentionally or not, that sounds awful!

 

[Superlizard]

Y'all are just "jelly" of MGM's tone... you wish you could get the sweet, sweet saturation
and never-ending sustain of the Gorilla line of fine quality amplifiers.

 

[AutoBat]

I can get the same "tone" from my physical amp. nice lil solid state Yamaha.  It can do loud very well, and that's about it.

 

[Paul-less]

Just to let you know, he DOES record everything one note at a time. That's why it sounds choppy. As for tone, I agree. It is aweful, but in the best way aweful could possibly be.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

I don't mean to be the cork sniffer either, but tone doesn't seem to be the object anyway, just entertainment.

 

[Danuda]

The tone of his guitar isn't really the point of his videos.  I have always enjoyed his stuff.  Plus with Youtubes revenue sharing thing and based on the amount of view he gets in each of his videos he is pulling in 6 figures.  Has to be doing something right.