It may be a volume issue. With less volume, you dont have the headroom to get all of the sustain and dynamics of your playing, so the natural thing to do is to compensate with more gain. I hate it when your in the middle of a song and you keep reaching for the volume knob cause the sound just aint happening...
I have noticed how little gain is used on a lot of classic rock recordings when trying to match tones compared to what you think you hear!
Yeah, me too. I suspect that's because those older records were recorded with old Marshall Plexi's and such, where they could run the amp full blast and get all of the sustain & dynamics that they needed. A big part of that is physically working the speakers and pushing some air!
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