hatrickpatrick

...even if the song's melody, chords and actual content are completely original?

Is it ok, for example, to compose a new song by using a Korg A3 preset which can also be tweaked to sound like Streets if you speed it up and change the rhythm, or a new tune which evolved from using the Vox AC-30 setting which you used earlier to get the "squeaky" sound from the end of Beautiful Day?

How much can technique imply plagiarism, even when the music itself is completely different?

I ask because I've written two new melodies which if someone listened to them, they might assume are from some Killers or U2 song they haven't heard yet due to the dotted 8th delay I've been using... Thoughts? I didn't intentionally try to make it sound like a rip off, I was just randomly messing around with my V-Amp 2 and Korg A3 in a chain and discovered a really nice sounding combo. I only realized how similar the sound was when my dad walked past and said "sounds like something U2 would play"

Thoughts?