Most enviable/sought after guitar tone

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Hey what about Zakk Wylde! Killer heavy tone but not just from the gear. Mucho ability required too.
 
rich robinson of the black crowes with harry joyce amps and james trussart guitars. there is no one even close
 
For Metal, by far the best rhythm tone is Dime Bags on Pantera's "Reinventing the Steel". Pan it left and then right and each one has similar lows and highs but the mids are different.

Metallica's Garage Days Revisited is the best Mesa rhythm tone I have heard from them.

Lead tone goes to Michael Angelo, its fat as hell and clear as air.

Very few rockers can beat Eddies tone on the first Van Halen cd almost 30 years ago. Zakk is probably the best hard rock tone out there now.

Slipknot has the best metal tone of recent years and most improved from 1st to 2nd album in my book.
 
cellardweller said:
This was kinda inspired by "gunslinger" thread.

Who has the most enviable/sought after guitar tone? I'm mostly curious about hardrock/metal/nu-metal/ACM distorted tones, but please feel free to name any who differ from this...
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Sears Silvertone guitar and amp combo........................sweet.........
 
producerkid said:
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.
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i read an article a long time ago about the recording of that.... he used his g&l into three different amps; one for lows, one for mids, one for highs. All I can remember for sure was the vox ac-30 for the highs, but it seems like he used a marshall for the mids and a bogner fish for the lows...
 
Mr. Brown Stain
Van Halen I to 1984. AAA Brutally cool tones.

G&R
Appetite...

R. Blackmore.
Rainbow.
"Man on the Silver Mountain"...nuff said.

Yngwie.

George Lynch on "Mr. Scary"

Slayer
Reign in Blood.

Megadeth
Peace Sells...

Larry Carlton.

New Slipknot

Death Angel
Act III

Brothers Malcom and Angus.

Metal-licka
Garage Days

SRV.

Hendrix.

Zep

Stones.

Chilli Peppers.

Zakk.

The guitar player from Matchbox 20.
Superb tones on their live DVD.
 
Why is everyone always kissing the asses of all of these "vintage" guitarists? Shouldn't everyone be in search of todays more hi-tech sounds? Maybe its just me...
 
Somehow I don't think "high-tech" necesarilly applies to a good guitar sound. If that were so, we'd be really embarassed at the sampling rates of tube amplifiers. ;) :p
 
hybridsound said:
Why is everyone always kissing the asses of all of these "vintage" guitarists? Shouldn't everyone be in search of todays more hi-tech sounds? Maybe its just me...
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haha. yeah it's just you
 
Today's sounds go back to ........the Past....

hybridsound said:
Why is everyone always kissing the asses of all of these "vintage" guitarists? Shouldn't everyone be in search of todays more hi-tech sounds? Maybe its just me...
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Totally agree, and guess what we are doing with todays high-tech sounds? We make sounds we already know from the past........Modelling guitars, modelling amps ect. but no amps which produce totally new sounds. I guess most of us here, including me, love the sounds and skills of these old-school players, and it seems that the modern guys do not go beyond them.

As far as techn. goes: We love retro, is has been going on for nearly 15 years now and there is still seems no end to it.

Cheers,

Eddie
 
Robben Ford
Gary Moore
Larry Carlton
Albert Collins
EVH
SRV
etc....... :D
 
Let's not forget Townshends "Live At Leeds" tone, all the many sounds of Steve Howe or Slowhands Layla era sound.
 
cavedog101 said:
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.
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I'll buy that...The sound in my head is pretty cool!The voices gotta stop though :D
 
Greg Ginn! Haha! Anyone here ever listen to Black Flag?

Hendrix, Marley,Peter Tosh, Earl "Chinna" Smith
 
David Gilmour, Ritchie Blackmore and Tony Iommi all have great guitar sounds.

Worst guitar sounds is more fun:

Mick Mars
Eddie Van Halen
Joe Satriani
Steve Vai
 
Probably not in the league of you guys players but

Rapheal Saddiq from Tony toni tone :p
 
bigwillz24 said:
Probably not in the league of you guys players but

Rapheal Saddiq from Tony toni tone :p
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Hey this is good, here we have a name of someone I have never heard of. Made it up or....................?

Oh I guess there must be players who really play with "new" sounds but it is just that they do not get much attention eh. Same for all the new gear: A lot of these modeling amps may be able to produce new sounds, but then they advertise these beasts as: "Can emulate AC30 and ect. ect."

Perhaps we should just forget about it all: A guitar is a guitar, and it sounds as it does, so if you want something else [new sounds and...............] come up with some other kind of instrument. In a way what Leo Fender came up with is pretty good as it is, so let us just stick to this concept.

But heh what about "Steinburger" and some other "revolutionairy designs"? True, but I do not see often folks who play them.......................

Aahhh so it starts all over again eh?

Okay great player, great sound? Charlie Christian, and no need for distortion boxes or even a solid body, just good old guitar and one amp and that will do. Okay many have copies his sounds and ideas, but that is just life eh.............

Cheers,

Eddie
 
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