What if tone doesn’t matter and never did?
We spend years chasing "the perfect tone".
We debate pickups, wood, cables, string gauges, vintage vs. modern, analog vs. digital.
But here's a question:
What if tone is just a smokescreen for insecurity?
What if it’s easier to tweak your EQ for 4 hours than to write 4 bars of music that actually matter?
What if most tone debates are just musicians avoiding the terrifying truth that no one cares how good your tone is if you have nothing worth saying.
We worship tone gods who barely write.
We buy gear to sound like players who weren’t chasing tone, they were chasing meaning.
Tone is real.
But maybe tone obsession is just creative procrastination.
So I’ll ask again:
What if tone doesn’t matter?
