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What Matt said is pretty spot on. What I would add myself as a sound engineer is that the concept of sound and good tone is very relative and it's very much on a concept of case by case. Basically, you choose the guitar tone on what will serve the song best in terms of realizing the artist's final vision which is a very abstract concept in itself. Are there general rules of thumb? Yes, guitar tone wise you don't want to go too much into the bass in order to leave room for the bass guitar. You would be surprise how much the bass tone plays into the guitar tones when we talk about records.You don't always notice or hear the bass (unless you focus) on a standard mix, but take out the bass and you will certainly notice that something feels wrong.Anyways, not the point. To explore more your original question specifically, blending is an essential part to trying to get unique styles and sounds. If memory serves right, one of the reason Avenged has kind of 2 different tones is also because there are 2 guitar players in there with 2 different set of gear as well as technique. It definitely spices things up as while on paper they play the same thing, in reality you have 2 different yet complementary type of sounds from the different gear as well as 2 different approaches.All that to say that while there are some standards, I would highly encourage you to instead work on your hear and your sound to find what tone(s) will suit YOU best and make your music really you!
What Matt said is pretty spot on. What I would add myself as a sound engineer is that the concept of sound and good tone is very relative and it's very much on a concept of case by case. Basically, you choose the guitar tone on what will serve the song best in terms of realizing the artist's final vision which is a very abstract concept in itself. Are there general rules of thumb? Yes, guitar tone wise you don't want to go too much into the bass in order to leave room for the bass guitar. You would be surprise how much the bass tone plays into the guitar tones when we talk about records.
You don't always notice or hear the bass (unless you focus) on a standard mix, but take out the bass and you will certainly notice that something feels wrong.
Anyways, not the point. To explore more your original question specifically, blending is an essential part to trying to get unique styles and sounds. If memory serves right, one of the reason Avenged has kind of 2 different tones is also because there are 2 guitar players in there with 2 different set of gear as well as technique. It definitely spices things up as while on paper they play the same thing, in reality you have 2 different yet complementary type of sounds from the different gear as well as 2 different approaches.
All that to say that while there are some standards, I would highly encourage you to instead work on your hear and your sound to find what tone(s) will suit YOU best and make your music really you!
