Electric Guitar...is it me or is the sound really grating?

I love performance. I like to listen to others play and I'll play myself on occasion...

but man any time someone is like "Yeah I'm just gonna use this Electric Guitar"...I have to get out of earshot or kill being able to hear performance at all.

Am I alone on this?

Nearly 100 views and no responses. I'll chalk that up to "it's just me".

the soundfont is terrible by itself, there are TONS of FREE to use soundfonts out there, but they just dont care to change it anymore....

It's absolutely awful. Performance has been turned off since it was introduced.

yeah sadly they let it died slowly and painfull....

Yeah, I'm with ya there. I like Performance with a lot of instruments, but the electric guitar is really bad sounding.. and ironically it's the one people use the most.

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Originally Posted by Renalt

Nearly 100 views and no responses. I'll chalk that up to "it's just me".

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lol, I opened this up earlier and closed it as I had nothing nice to say. :X I really dislike all of the performance sounds and keep it turned off permanently.

honestly all the instruments sound pretty... bad. i don't see why people enjoy the concerts.

I keep performance off. If I see rainbow crotchets and quavers flying out of someone and I happen to be feeling curious enough I might

/performsounds

to listen for a sec but I toggle them back off after.

The guitar's got a horrendously cheap tone to it. It's like somebody plugged a £40 guitar into a £20 amp, turned gain and overdrive to max, turned the low end down and cranked the mid and the high end lol. Plus playing on a bridge pickup. It's so bad but I will say though that of all the virtual instruments I've ever had to mess around with, overdrive electric guitar I'd probably the hardest to replicate and have sound good. Not exactly sure why, but even within DAW/VSTs it's really hard to get them to sound good.

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Originally Posted by Denji

honestly all the instruments sound pretty... bad. i don't see why people enjoy the concerts.

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Well, people also supposedly enjoy staring at beeskees in 2B pants and some fake DJ acts for hours, so i guess some people are incredibly easy to please.

Performance in general sounds almost like Wii Music. And bard macros/auto play software basically midi jukeboxes. It nearly always makes me burst into laughter whenever I see people jumping with lightsticks to their sound.
But I shouldn't make fun of it. I, too, cannot help but start a mosh whenever I hear one_winged_angel.mid play on windows 98 quality.

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Originally Posted by Misplaced_Marbles

Well, people also supposedly enjoy staring at beeskees in 2B pants and some fake DJ acts for hours, so i guess some people are incredibly easy to please.

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i mean don't get me wrong, i'll listen to a person who is actually playing.

but i mean when you walk into limsa and see 15 people with similar names all being played via macros/scripts/addons? hate it. sounds like garbage. and i like chiptunes, midi music, etc since i'm old enough that once upon a time you'd open a website and a crappy midi would appear.