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I'm sure there's a lot of people will disagree, but does anyone else ever get the idea that maybe the amplified rock guitar sound has more or less reached a limit?

In general, with rock and roll and metal, it seems to have gone from twangy, to dirty, to brown, to ultra-high gain. It seems to have stopped with ultra-high gain sometime in the 90s. I mean what else is there? You can't get too much more saturation without losing the sound of the guitar can you? You listen to new metal albums coming out, and the guitar sounds aren't much different (and maybe not better) than those on 90s metal albums. However, those on 90s are somewhat louder, crunchier, and quot;heavierquot; than those in the 80s. It's like there were huge jumps from the 60's to the 70's, and from the 70's to the 80s, a small jump from the 80's to the 90s, and then...just variations of the same sounds. A lot of it is in the production, but much of it is in the amps too. These days, it seems like the concentration is on modelling, having versatility, being able to customize your sound to no end, but much of it is based on sounds of the past.

Guess there's no other way to go then back, but that's alright with me!

The more that things change, the more they stay the same?

Once everything's been done, it just starts to revolve in circles.....kinda like pop music.

Plus, there's so many shades of guitar tone, that it's become limitless. To be honest, I don't really have quot;A soundquot;, mostly because I appreciate so many different tones. There's midgain/strat neck. LP bridge/highgain. LP neck/midgain. Tele middle clean. Limitless.