[Mr. Jelly]

Originally Posted by Tnfiddler

I know the general public doesn’t care, but I don’t understand how any musician who hears the unplugged tone of their guitar, could so easily accept a metallic, quacky tone!

Most the time I don't think general audiences really notice guitar tone.
A lot of performers are about performing via singing and not guitar playing really. There's nothing wrong with that. It's not me or you though. There are people with all sorts of machines on stage. Don't get me started about chorus pedals.

I watched a bluegrass band the other day that were very good and the guitar flat picking sound was good. It stood up as good as I've heard within a bluesgrass band. He had a pedal board any hard rock guitarist would be jealous of. I didn't even ask about it.