Waning Moon Conrad

Is G still the dominant chord of a piece in C when it's louder?

Anabolic

disclaimer - I do not claim to know what I am talking about.

Music at lower volumes will affect your subconscious, whilst slipping past the conscious mind 9 times out of 10, unless you're listening for it.

The beat/tempo of the music also has an effect on your heartrate.

Godless Wonder

Ha ha. Yeah, those EVH MusicMan guitars only have a volume knob, no tone knob. And the volume knob is labeled "Tone", IIRC.

Hmm, on seeing some other posts... There is definitely something special about standing in front of a loud guitar amp and blasting out some cool riffs, ...those times when it makes the hair on your arms stand up.

Keith Russell

Does the meaning of this sentence remain the same, if it is written in red letters--

--or blue--

--or cursive--

--or by hand--

--or in letters twenty feet high?

K

Godless Wonder

It occurred to me later that maybe I should add to this that a guitar's volume knob, when the guitar is connedted to a high-gain guitar amp... well, "changing the volume" is really not an apt description of what it does. With the "volume" knob at 0%, the guitar is silent, at 1% it is making some sound, from 3-5% it get's louder. But, from about 5-10% to 100%, it does NOT get louder, because the amp is already clipping the signal at that point. Turning the knob more just means that more and more of the signal is being clipped, until at 100%, almost nothing but superimposed square waves are coming out of the pre-amp. (a slight oversimplificaiton, but basically true.) Anyway, that is why EVH says volume is tone, because for the most part it changes the sound of the guitar, not the volume of that sound.