Tones to die for!

[Dunder XIII]

God I just dialed in a tone to die for! Sorry had to tell about it (you know? like when you fall in love):

A Gibson ES-335 (a 1958 reissue, classic '57 humbuckers), neck pickup tone at 4.5, full volume. Old 0.011 .. 0.052 Dean Markley strings tuned a whole step down (DGCFAD).
Plugged into a Fender HotRod Deluxe, secondary input, clean channel, volume low. Treble: 6; Bass: 11.5 ; Mid: 9.5; Reverb: 5; Presence: 0

Styles: Jazz, mellow songs and blues. Warm cosy feeling.

Ok I'm not that selfish, so I invite you to tell me and everybody what your personal 'to die for' tone is . Give as much detail as you can; its hard to imagine sound otherwise ;-) Can be ANY tone, even if its a phone ring or a modem buzz <urg>.

Btw I would not really die for a tone.. I'm not stupid.

 

[PFDarkside]

I can't remember the settings, but I was playing my Les Paul w/ a SD JB pickup through an old bassman my friend was borrowing. I'm pretty sure it was almost maxed out. If I recall correctly, I was also using a slight clean boost. I think I saw God that night. My fingers were hurting so bad with my (at that time) new .11's, but I just couldn't stop! THe tone was so good.

 

[Cyrokk]

Can be ANY tone, even if its a phone ring or a modem buzz <urg>.

Any tone?

That would be the sound of a woman's voice whispering things in your ear that only you should be hearing, combined with her heavenly scent gently riding on the top of a mild breeze.

Cy

 

[philboyd studge]

Hmmm, been thinking about replacing the pickups on my '69 ES175D with classic '57 paf's and this just might put me over the top. This last summer I had for a time a ES 135 with those pickups and it sounded great through my Hot Rod Deluxe (especially the neck pickup), trouble was the rest of the guitar sucked and I took it back.

"Plugged into a Fender HotRod Deluxe, secondary input, clean channel, volume low. Treble: 6; Bass: 11.5 ; Mid: 9.5; Reverb: 5; Presence: 0"

Man, that's a lot of reverb on that amp, if I take much over 2 everything sounds like surf music. Could be just my amp though. For tone I've got everything at 6 with low volume also.

I love that 175, for 25 years it belonged to one of my early guitar idols, Al Casey, and he switched all the hardware around to gold and added an L5 tailpiece. Plays like a dream......it's just that neck pickup isn't all it could be..............oh, Santa?