What are your favorite guitar tones?

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johnny_be_goode

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as for me...

Rock:
Van Halen's brown sound - JCM800 + MXR + Ohmite VARIAC set to approximately 90 Volts A/C

Blues:
SRV - 0.13 guage + fender vibroverb w 15" + Strat w Pau Ferro

Jazz:
Wes Montgomery - thumb + gibson arch top + gibson amp
 
Mattias Elkundh is my current tone craze. His "neck" tone is pretty much to die for.

Ron Thal too, I like his neck tone a LOT, esp the BumbleFoot guitar.

The rest of my guitar heroes... I dunno... Vai, Gilbert, Timmons, Guthrie, etc etc, have this grainy tone, I can't stand it anymore. Either that, or a midrange honk, sticking out like a sore thumb.

I should be playing keyboards. :roll:

:lol:
 
personal favourite 80s heavy metal tone. Akira Takasaki on Loudness 'Thunder in the East'. Eddie Kramer at the production helm.

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tom morello
mike einziger
john scofield
shaun soh from sky in euphoria

..oh wait, those are my favorite guitarists! :roll:

also, smashing pumpkins, glassjaw, radiohead and van halen. i don't really like the uber-lead vai satch etc tone
 
the most memorable(not best!) guitar tone I heard is from Eric Clapton before he became Eric Crapton.

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His solo on All Your Love(if i can remember the song name correctly) gives me goosebumps.
 
Mark Knopfler
Eric Clapton
Steve Morse
Jose Feliciano
Pete Townshend

tone to the max in their respective genres...
 
John Mayer when he did his 'Trio' live album on his Strat
Carlos D. Santana on his Yamaha
BB King on his Gibson
Stevie Ray Vaughn on his No.1 and 'Lenny'
Angus Young on his SG
Robben Ford on his telecaster and Les Paul
Steve Lukather on his Valley Art guitar
Ritchie Blackmore on his '70s Strat
Jimmy Page on his telecaster
Scott Ian on his ESP
Jaco Pastorius on his Fender
Flea on his custom Bass
Steve Morse on his Music man signature for Deep Purple - listen to 'Contact Lost' off the Bananas album
Jeff Beck on his Gibson circa 'Blow by Blow'
Pat Metheny on his Ibanez circa 'Bright Size Life'
Neil Young on his Les Paul
Mike Bloomfield on his Les Paul circa Rolling Stones and Al Kooper
Peter Green on his Les Paul circa John Mayall and Fleetwood Mac
Steve Howe on his Gibson ES 135 circa early Yes
Steve Cropper on his telecaster circa Booker T and the MGs and the Staple Singers
Danny Gatton on his telecaster circa the '80s
Victor Wooten on his custom bass circa 1st solo album
Stewart De Souza on his ZON bass
FGL on his DIY-Bonnie Raitt Strat
George Harrison on the psychedelic Beatles era and solo
Derek Trucks on his Washburn
Warren Haynes on his Les Paul
Michael Landau on his Tyler
Pino Palladino on his Fender
Brian May on his Red Special
 
Clem said:
John Mayer when he did his 'Trio' live album on his Strat
Carlos D. Santana on his Yamaha
BB King on his Gibson
Stevie Ray Vaughn on his No.1 and 'Lenny'
Angus Young on his SG
Robben Ford on his telecaster and Les Paul
Steve Lukather on his Valley Art guitar
Ritchie Blackmore on his '70s Strat
Jimmy Page on his telecaster
Scott Ian on his ESP
Jaco Pastorius on his Fender
Flea on his custom Bass
Steve Morse on his Music man signature for Deep Purple - listen to 'Contact Lost' off the Bananas album
Jeff Beck on his Gibson circa 'Blow by Blow'
Pat Metheny on his Ibanez circa 'Bright Size Life'
Neil Young on his Les Paul
Mike Bloomfield on his Les Paul circa Rolling Stones and Al Kooper
Peter Green on his Les Paul circa John Mayall and Fleetwood Mac
Steve Howe on his Gibson ES 135 circa early Yes
Steve Cropper on his telecaster circa Booker T and the MGs and the Staple Singers
Danny Gatton on his telecaster circa the '80s
Victor Wooten on his custom bass circa 1st solo album
Stewart De Souza on his ZON bass
FGL on his DIY-Bonnie Raitt Strat
George Harrison on the psychedelic Beatles era and solo
Derek Trucks on his Washburn
Warren Haynes on his Les Paul
Michael Landau on his Tyler
Pino Palladino on his Fender
Brian May on his Red Special
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wah paiseh lah clem .... :oops:

BUT if you like the "Bonnie Raitt" it's YOURS for only $1500.... :lol:
 
eh, paiseh for what? Shows that you did a great job fixing the guitar up. Heard you play it at POW and I told Stu that the tone was killer, especially the overdriven blues sound.

If I ever want to DIY a guitar, I'll know who to ask for advice :lol:
 
i may be abit narrow minded, but here are my fave

mark hoppus' tone especially in stay together and the rock show :P

mark king's slap tone *drools* especially in lessons in love and turn it on :D

who can resist steve harris' tone??? :D

and also nikolai fraiture's tone in juicebox, where he's using a MM *drools*
 
Clem said:
eh, paiseh for what? Shows that you did a great job fixing the guitar up. Heard you play it at POW and I told Stu that the tone was killer, especially the overdriven blues sound.

If I ever want to DIY a guitar, I'll know who to ask for advice :lol:
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Thanx..offer still stands..haha but you can only buy from it from sat onwards...hahaha
 
I'm surprised nobody's said it yet, but Dimebag's mid-scooped tone is my all-time favourite guitar sound.. :twisted:
 
van halen - the tone of "can't stop loving you" (clean and overdrives)
john 5 - the chorus of tainted love & sweet dreams
dan donegan - the solo tone for stricken
eric johnson - cliff of dover, srv (the cleans and the overdrives)
matt bellamy - new born, citizen erase, bliss (fuzz)
angus young - back in black, it's a long way to the top, thunderstruck (fuzz)
 
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