Iām a bedroom player Clint. Well, kinda. I play in my dining room, the biggest room in the small house. The house is 834 sq ft. Iām guessing many folks have bigger bedrooms that my whole house is.
I have to play at whisper volume when the wife is home so I get it.
Granted my amps sound better above a whisper volume, but I can get them to sound what I think is reasonable at them low volumes. When playing, I try to play the amp at least a shade louder than hearing the strings of the guitar itself.
@Majik
For sure. Best I can tell, near everything effects the tones you get whether acoustic or amplified.
For me, a good example of this is where I got my supro located at.
I had to rearrange my room and the supro changed location.
I was considering selling it. Then I changed the room around again. Now, Iām going back and forth whether I like my prri or my supro better. I still think the prri wins, but just that change in location of the supro was a real game changer for how that amp sounded.
I learned along time ago that I am never gonna sound like the ārecordā that I listen to. And thatās ok. In the end, I want to sound like me, not someone else. I can get close enough, but for sure, itāll never be what I hear on the record.
As for my ss amp, my red stripe bandit. It does have good tone. And it does boil down to the ss amp in question I think. I got a silver stripe bandit too and the red stripe one has notable better tone than the silver stripe one, I think.
If I really only had to have just one amp. The bandit is so versitile, I could almost think that would be the one I would keep and the tones can be varied from super clean to near death metal. Not that I play death metal thoughā¦
Nicole @JokuMuu
Yep, physical location has much to do with it. Heck, I play outside in the summer on my back stoop. The sound just dissipates into thin air. This is another place my supro excels at imho. My supro is my most portable amp so it goes outside much. I like the sound of it outside. Iāve taken my prri outside and I donāt get into the tones near as much as when I play it in the house. It sits elevated from my other amps in the house. Itās at ear level when Iām sitting in my chair. It sounds sweet like that. On the ground, outside, well, itās just not as chimey is the best way I can describe it.
@jjw, John, I couldnāt agree more. But there is pleasing guitar tone and not so pleasing guitar tone. If I work on all them items you listed, I still want my guitar to have good tone.
That said.
That hello kitty guitar is almost a guitar and a good player can obviously make it sound pretty darn good. Iād guess it sounds much better on a good guitar though. Unless, that āisā the tone your looking for.
Dennis @dblinden
Yep, there are many tools (guitars, amps, on and on) available to us. And what I do for sure would be considered my hobby. But I still want what I play to sound pleasing to my ear. While that hello kitty guitar may have itās place, even tone wise it may have itās place, But I still am partial to a full sounding guitar, elec. or acoustic. For me, itās back to good tone is more inspiration for me. And Iām with you, I lack talent. But if I keep trying hard, ya never know what could happen. fwiw, I donāt have talent in anything I do. Some folks are just blessed with a natural talent for doing something good. I have no natural talent for anything and have to work at everything I do for it to work out. Good tools (guitar, amps, etc) helpā¦ And they donāt have to be max price gear either. Much good sounding gear out there these days that donāt cost a arm and a legā¦ All my gear is perhaps medium level quality. For what I do, medium level quality is more than good enough for me. I just want something a shade more inspirational than a hello kitty guitar 
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