Where guitar tone ‘really’ comes from 

Tone is stored in the balls

Tone is the friends we made along the way

Tone is the mortgage of a mic

Tone is in the Van Halen T shirt

This short felt like an addict announcing unprompted that he doesn't have a problem.

*Said the man with ALL the gear*

Tone is in ur bank account we all know this

Really didn’t need to flex on us like that.

Tone is in the color of the pedals and the finish of the guitar.😊

Finally someone said it I remember when I learned to distort my guitar with my hands.

Tone is in the camera

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Stop confusing tone with technique/style. Tone comes from the manipulation of the electronic signal.

Unless you have a line 6 spider

Tone is in the speakers

"which is why I have so much gear"

The balls

Tone is where the heart is

Tone is located exactly at 329 hertz, just 20 hertz away from where the "Glue" lives. theyre practically neighbours. so boost 25 db at 339 hertz and you get tons of tone and glue, which translates to a stellar mix.

Dual centaurs 🤌

Fuck that, tone is in the speakers.

Tone is everywhere! It lives in the vibrations and EVERYTHING is vibrating at all times. EVERYTHING effects tone.

Right hand: "Am I a joke to you?"

Something special about the setup with the pedals. I love the whole thing

Ready to crank out some Nashville noises

meanwhile bass: *plugs into the amp* ya ready yet?

This is me looking at my 35 pedals on my shelf and telling myself I don't have a pedal addiction and my tone is straight from my fingers.

I agree...Good gear are just better tools to build with. If you can't build anyway, it doesn't matter.

It’s definitely not the wood

Toan is where the heart is pumpin'

Well said, in the fingers.Exactly right.😊

Tone comes from experience

How to piss off a fan base in one minute:

had to flex the klon

*Changes fingertips*

The satisfying sound of clicking in all that gear is the real tone

You just hooked about 25 Grand worth of equipment to your fingers😂

took me years to get a swedish chainsaw sound from my fingers

My friend has that identical guitar. That thing plays like magic

Tone is something you're born with.

Just figured I'd shout out Jim Lill's video about this exact topic, where he goes to extraordinary lengths to isolate and exclude different variables. He does not conclude that it's all in the fingers.

How do I get my fingers to turn my guitar’s pitch down two octaves?

"gear it doesn't matter" - guy who's guitar gear and rig is more expensive than my studio apartment

Tone is the technique we learned along the way 🥰

Combo of everything, but love the meme lol

I did a couple of Jeff Beck albums, and he had an old digitech guitar processor plugged straight into the board. If the preset had too much reverb, say, he'd just switch to the next preset and carry on. Sounded godly

Thats right! My playstyle even brings heavy distortion to the party without any gear.

Yuppp, i transitioned from classical guitar to electric (telecaster) and this is what I’m learning to apply

No, expression is in the fingers on the strings. Tone is the interplay between the guitar and a loud amplifier. It's also how you adjust the knobs on the guitar. Amp settings have a lot to do with it, too.

I have turned a $50 Tascam DR-05 on and sat it on my lap to record a quick idea on a $100 3/4 Yamaha acoustic, and ended up being more blown away by the playback tone than the idea😅. I just heard Buzz Osbourne repeat the golfer's quote "the more I practice, the luckier I get". Practice! Your fingers are part of your personality. They repeat stories like you, they laugh like you and cry like you. Sure, you can get a new hair style or upgrade your wardrobe and lean into your new look, but you'll still be you staring back at yourself in the mirror at 1am. Lean into THAT.

Sarcasm level 5000 awarded.

Tone is in the vibes

I heard that Steve Vai talked about Eddie Van Halen coming to visit. Eddie picked up Steve's guitar, which was hooked into Steve's set up, but what came out of the amps still sounded like Eddie Van Halen.

It's in the speakers guy

Imagine Zakk playing Black Label riffs on a jazz box with no pedals and plugged into one of those super early Gibson 5-watt combo amp thingys. One of the ones that couldn't distort even if you tried. Now imagine Robert Johnson playing "Me And The Devil Blues" on Dave Mustaine's entire rig. Gear absolutely matters. But only to a certain point. Give Zakk any guitar plugged into any metal amp, and you'll get Zakk tone all day every day and thrice on Sunday.

I agree 100% with the first part of your statement. But gear matters!! My TS-9 and Deluxe reverb keep me warm at night!

I'm right there with ya

It's all the above.

Yes, the tone is in the fingers, but gear also matters.

Tone isn't in the hands or gear, it's in the ear of the beholder.

From Glasgow: Well said, wee Tyler. 🍀🎸🍀

Powerful message tbh

That's right. It's how you play the fretboard! 🎸

Love this video... wish you'd got a massive chord with all the pedals on at once

_Tone is in the air_

Hands, strings, speakers are probably the biggest tone shapers. Energy in and out.

Tone is in the cab - speakers that you use and your hands of course .

That's the way to tell 'em!!

Don't you give me that Bob Ross lip, tell me where to throw my life savings!

Hot take but I think it's a combination of the hands, guitar,cables, pedals, amp, and amp settings

Tone is in the amp, pickups and pedals. The eletronics do all the work.

Tone is the frequency, gear changes the frequencies, gear creates different tone.

You are obviously correct. No sound engineering can tell you opposite. Respect!

Tone is where you make it~

Tone is in the speakers primarily. Technique is in the fingers.

"ay tone, if he dont need all them pedals... how come he's got em? heh heh"

Tone comes from the pressure you exert on the strings between the frets. And the efficiency with which control note duration.

The way he plugged that jack in makes me concerned about his wife.

Skill is in fingers, tone is in gear

Tone is completely in the hands. However, the right amp responds and enhances!

MusicIsWin is filmed in front of a live studio Ostrich. Tyler: Tone, is in the fingers. Gear doesnt matter. Ostrich: A ha ha!!!

"Gear......doesn't really matter" Aww man it's so cool of you to gift me your Klon. What an awesome guy you are! No knee ever done anything like that for me!

That's right my man

Feel and skill comes from the fingers, not tone. You can't get a distorted tone out of a clean amp just with your fingers

I was playing Master Of Puppets Hetfield solo in my 300$ strat.Then a friend of mine come over to my place bringed his Gibson Les Paul. I played the Hetfield solo and it was nearly the same as the studio record. So the tone is not 100% in fingers. While you playing a 2000$ and with many effects and amps, you cant say that tone is on the fingers.

likely one of the most honest things I've ever heard on a YTube guitar channel

Ok this is golden

I believe tone is more in your picking hand / pot settings and pickup height on your guitar. The pressure , the attack hit on the strings and how the strings vibrate. I'm my personal opinion

In my opinion tone is actually in the right hand, with how and where you pick and all that stuff

tone doesn’t really matter because what it matters for real is the music

Tone is actually the journey not the destination

Because my fingers make it go KARKAKRKAKTKAKRKAKRKAKAKAERRRIIIIIING

Loved this video

Tone is in the cabinet you use

Thank you that is so true 👏👏👏💯💯💯💯

Someone has to say it.. and by someone I mean everyone should

That’s the mantra of Five Watt World.

tone comes from the shape of the headstock

Tone is in that shirt, i absolutely need it

Genius is in the head, technique is in the fingers, tone is in the speaker.... Your welcome...... Now let's move on.....