> without the most remote hint of warmth I’m struggling to work out what you mean by “warm” here. By a musician’s definition, low impedance pickups and solid s

> without the most remote hint of warmth I’m struggling to work out what you mean by “warm” here. By a musician’s definition, low impedance pickups and solid state electronics (usually those with input transformers) have produced some of the warmest guitar tones on record. Even a mid-tier archtop plugged directly into a solid state amp produces _incredibly_ warm. Distortion (in the musical sense), sure.