Originally posted by Death55

The biggest factor is the player. Get six people to play the same piece of music with the same guitar and amp and you'll get... six different sounds!

Thats a very interesting comment. I may try that one day and see what happens. [/B]

The first thing that happens when anybody tries out another guy's rig, is they start changing the control settings. The guitar, the amp, the effects - everything gets tweaked until it sounds 'right'.

Then when you add in the differences in pick angle, stiffness, and position along the string, and the fretting differences in bending, muting, hammer-on, and pull-off, plus timing, phrasing, and choice of position on the neck, and it becomes obvious why people tend to sound like themselves regardless of whose rig they're playing.