Most enviable/sought after guitar tone

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Buck62 said:
Jeez, I can't believe nobody's said Stevie Ray Vaughan yet.

I thought everybody wanted that SRV tone. :confused:
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Yep, the SRV tone is always sought after. The reason no one can seem to get it just right, is the strings he used and, of course his tallent.
 
Buck62 said:
Jeez, I can't believe nobody's said Stevie Ray Vaughan yet.

I thought everybody wanted that SRV tone. :confused:
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HEY!!! I said Stevie Ray Vaughn. Right up at the top.


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"Cowards can never be moral."
M.K. Gandhi
 
Dave Mustaine again, from either So Far So Good So What or R.I.P....both drastically different tones...the stuff on So Far was tonally very different from most anything I have heard actually...very unique IMO...

Of course how can we forget about Dimebag Darrell's wailing tonal warmongery....


Now I just like a tone with lots of feedback, a bluesy ballsy feel, and something that screams with a pinch harmonic... :D
 
well- its he's no "Linkin Park," and in no way "Nu-Metal," but....

STEVE CROPPER.

best tone ever. i love that guy.

also:

ROBERT WHITE. very good stuff too.
 
Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead. He always has this punchy, sort of excited sound that almost sounds like a slight envelope filter. It's a rewired Tele with Sensor humbuckers, so it might be the instrument alone that does it.
 
Althought not metal, I kinda always liked the tones Leslie West had. He was a revolutionary....
 
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I thought of Neil Young playing lead...his technical ability is suspect but he does leave an impression (like when playing live on "Your Love's like a Hurricane"). His leads wouldn't work without great tone (and good song writing).
 
-=¤willhaven¤=- said:
fun fact. they played in fresno, ca in 1996. a friend of mine hit the singer in the head with his own demo tape during the performance. it was quite a good shot.
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haha....Fresno.
 
Easy.. Robben Ford - or anyone else who plays through a Dumble amp...

...since none of us will ever be able to afford one.

Chris
 
It went this way.....Eldon Shamblin>Scotty Moore>George Harrison>Jeff Beck/Jimmie Page/Eric Clapton>Mr.Jimi>from there it was an explosion of great tones.....West/Walsh/Ford/Fripp/Allman/Moore/The Reverend etc>Edward Van/Malcolm>and then .......nothing.....not one original fucking noise on the planet...until Alice In Chains...Jerry Cantrell.
 
go check out some soilwork. the new album doesnt come until february 28th but if you can find an advance copy of a song called "vein" off of "stabbing the drama"........killer tone. i think maybe bogner amps. caparison guitars which are really hyped up jacksons if you ask me which are made in japan.

i have to ditto the lamb of god tone. killer. also nevermore and unearth. evergrey has killer tones as well. they use 5150s. :)
 
oh yeah does anybody know what cantrell used on AIC's Dirt? sounds like a distortion pedal direct but with way more focus. its got this midrange howl thats incredible.
 
Jens Jensen from The Haunted.

I WISH i knew how they got that tone.
 
I like the guitar sound on the Finger Eleven album "in the greyest of blue
sky's"" Real crunchy, Awsome sound.
 
Sure.... there are lots of guys with great tones. We could compile a list a mile long. But if we are talking strictly about sought after tones, SRV is head-and-shoulders above anyone else on the planet for the last decade. Just read the product reviews on HC sometime.... it seems EVERYTHING gets the SRV tone! :eek:
Before that it was EVH. Man.... in the '80's EVERYONE was trying to sound like him.
Before that, it was Hendrix.

Even to this day every music company would kill for any of those names on their products, and all three are still cloned and copied on a daily basis by millions of guitar players.

There are some other major "sought afters": ZZ Top, Jimmy Page, Knopfler, to name a few, but the three at the top are the undisputed heavy-weights.

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Has anyone mentioned Slash?

Les Paul/Marshall tone to die for.
 
oh yeah does anybody know what cantrell used on AIC's Dirt? sounds like a distortion pedal direct but with way more focus. its got this midrange howl thats incredible.

I think he used Bogner Fish pres. And a Music Man guitar.
 
the bogner fish. unforunately never got the chance to play one but from what ive heard those things freakin cook.
 
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