What's your favorite Guitar tone/sound?!
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Milnoque
Resident Curmudgeon
Gavid Gilmour's solo on "the Wall" is my absolute favorite.
Nobody"s mentioned:
George Harrison for "While my guitar gently Weeps"
All the guitar sounds on the song "Gimme Shelter"
Willie Nelsons lead guitar sound
Jeff Beck for all of "Blow By Blow"
Roy Buchanon
Brian Setzer
And anybody who ever played lead guitar for Merle Haggard
Nobody"s mentioned:
George Harrison for "While my guitar gently Weeps"
All the guitar sounds on the song "Gimme Shelter"
Willie Nelsons lead guitar sound
Jeff Beck for all of "Blow By Blow"
Roy Buchanon
Brian Setzer
And anybody who ever played lead guitar for Merle Haggard
32-20-Blues
New member
My favouritr guitar sound is this one right here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J4-iKJL4aQ
Take note Cream, this is how an electric blues trio should sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J4-iKJL4aQ
Take note Cream, this is how an electric blues trio should sound.
Well another thing about those guys is they both use similar guitars.
I like the playing and sound from better Ibanez guitars. I have some ESP's that are great too, but the tone is a little different for shred. Anything RG 550, 570, 770.... Ibanez Jems..... I like the Dimarzio Tone Zones, Evolutions, and PAF is good for leads as well put not as crunchy as I like. EMG 81's are also nice for more Metal tones.
So I'd say a decent Ibanez RG Series with good Pickups with a nice saturated high gain amp such as a Peavey 5150/6505 or Peavey Tripple XXX with a Maxon or Ibanez Tube Screamer and a decent effects unit like a TC G Major, G Force, or Lexicon PCM80 and shred is set.
Theres a guy that plays for "All That Remains".... He uses Ibanez guitars with EMG81's and a Peavey 5150. He has great shred tone and I think he sounds alot like Petrucci durring his solos.
I like the playing and sound from better Ibanez guitars. I have some ESP's that are great too, but the tone is a little different for shred. Anything RG 550, 570, 770.... Ibanez Jems..... I like the Dimarzio Tone Zones, Evolutions, and PAF is good for leads as well put not as crunchy as I like. EMG 81's are also nice for more Metal tones.
So I'd say a decent Ibanez RG Series with good Pickups with a nice saturated high gain amp such as a Peavey 5150/6505 or Peavey Tripple XXX with a Maxon or Ibanez Tube Screamer and a decent effects unit like a TC G Major, G Force, or Lexicon PCM80 and shred is set.
Theres a guy that plays for "All That Remains".... He uses Ibanez guitars with EMG81's and a Peavey 5150. He has great shred tone and I think he sounds alot like Petrucci durring his solos.
SMC Productions
New member
I'd have to say, Tony Iommi's Gibson Signature Pups into a Laney TI Signature amp. I LOVE those pups...even put them in one of my Gibson LP Customs! Them, in a LP or SG straight into that Laney is VERY evil, bone crushing, gut wrenching heavy!
ZZ Top's guitars always had very cool tones, especially their early albums.
Zakk's stuff sounds VERY cool...though I get tired of the pinches all the time..but his tone is killer!
ZZ Top's guitars always had very cool tones, especially their early albums.
Zakk's stuff sounds VERY cool...though I get tired of the pinches all the time..but his tone is killer!
marshall409
Active member
Neil Young is definitely up there for me. The best description ive read of his tone was of his SNL performance a few years ago. Solos that sounded like falling power lines. incredibly accurate.
Brian May is another of my favourites.
Angus is another one. i read somewhere that everyone who has played his rig was amazed at how little gain there was. i guess its really all in the player.
tom morello never ceases to amaze me. and the guitars he gets his tones with would surprise alot of people.
OH and Matt Bellamy of muse. some of the most amazing guitar player/tone ive witnessed live. alot of people may criticize his use off effects/midi stuff. but he knows it inside out. to me, they are all instruments. although i agree the wah is overused.
pretty much everyone mentioned here have amazing tones....
its hard not to be biased about tone when the music being played is so damn good.
Adam
Brian May is another of my favourites.
Angus is another one. i read somewhere that everyone who has played his rig was amazed at how little gain there was. i guess its really all in the player.
tom morello never ceases to amaze me. and the guitars he gets his tones with would surprise alot of people.
OH and Matt Bellamy of muse. some of the most amazing guitar player/tone ive witnessed live. alot of people may criticize his use off effects/midi stuff. but he knows it inside out. to me, they are all instruments. although i agree the wah is overused.
pretty much everyone mentioned here have amazing tones....
its hard not to be biased about tone when the music being played is so damn good.
Adam
fretwire3d
New member
amarach said:joey santiago's (pixies) guitar on HEY
lee ranaldo and thurston moore on anything but particularly washing machine
steven malkmus on pavements at&t
graham coxen on to the end...
basically anything that isn't eric clapton
Sonic Nurse has great tone: fenders through little Mesa Boogies.
Live, Thurston uses really cheap peavey half stacks, lee uses fender bandmasters. It's not the best tone (the peavey) but it fits them and it's pretty good tone being that it's coming out of a bunch of buzzy half broken jaguars.
I've seen sonic youth 6 times and the shows are usually too loud to listen to tone but some album stuff the tone is impressive.
Yeah, eric clapton could be plugged straight into jesus, and i still wouldn't give a fuck about him.
Sirnothingness
Banned
I think Eric Johnson's tone is over-rated. I gotta go with the toad on this one, SRV's tone was unbelievable. And most of it came from him and his playing more so than the equipment.
Flangerhans
Dodecahedronic member
Love Ry Cooder and his old National steel pickups...Hate strats through a chorus clean. Love Teisco pickups, hate the guitars. Love new sonic territory, hate the clone tone. Absolutely love GA5s and National/Supro/Valco amps. One man's cheese is another man's camembert...
