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Re:Yamaha’s DX7 synthesiser changed modern music by klodolph on Friday January 01, 2021 @01:20AM (#25601321)
I don’t think it’s that hard to pick out a Strat or Tele in a recording, they both have fairly unique sounds and the only guitars which sound like them are direct clones. At least at low to medium gain levels, but that’s where Strats and Teles are mostly used.
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Re:Yamaha’s DX7 synthesiser changed modern music by ratww on Friday January 01, 2021 @03:19AM (#25601694)
Agreed 100%.

Teles are easy to pick out in country tunes, and guitar-based country sounds very different when people use something else.

Same for Strats in blues-infused pop. I'm not a super fan but a lot of young people today would recognise the sound of John Mayer's clean Strat tones in pop-blues, for instance.

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