By PT
What is the most awful guitar sound you have ever produced?
Maybe you plugged into an unfamiliar piece of gear. Maybe a child or non-musical loved one randomly twisted the knobs on your amp. Or, maybe you just pushed the Distortion button on your 1980s Peavey Rage.
Whatever the case, imagine that terrible tone now. Feel the way it offended your ears. Really try to hear it.
Could you reproduce that sound? Or create one even more hideous?
I come before you this day with a challenge, dear Fifth Fret readers. I challenge you to create your worst possible tone and record it. Enough with the great tone already! My ears are up for something truly awful.
I intend to come back to this space next week with a recording of the worst tone I can muster. I have no idea what it will be just yet, but I do know it will be putrid.
If you would like to participate in the Terrible Tone Challenge, email me a sound clip at pt(at)sixstringbliss.com. Next Friday, I will post my clip along with any submissions I receive. They won’t be pretty, but they will have the ‘can’t-look-away’ awesomeness of a bad tattoo or ‘People at some Big-Box Store’ website.
Who is up for the challenge? At the very least, it will give your friends and family a new appreciation for your usual carefully crafted tone.
PT is the co-host of the guitar talk podcast Six-String Bliss. He also writes fiction and has been known to throw a little disc golf. He lives in the birthplace of country music.
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