All time favourite tone on a song

[daveyboy]

Yo

I'm sure someone has posted this type of thread like 9,999,999 times, but I'm curious. What would you dudes say is your favourite all time guitar tone (ie- Artist, album, song) etc.

Name a couple

Here's mine:

Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold as Love - Little Wing

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy - Rain Song

[pardo]

Daveyboy, you mentioned 2 killer tones!

I'm gonna say:

Edward Van Halen - Drop Dead Legs - 1984

Dunno why, but that sound of Edwards guitar on that tune absolutely floors me. Its really expressive and warm. My ideal tone!

[johnny]

jimi hendrix - electric ladyland - all along the watchtower

if that tone doesn't make you cream your pants, i don't know what will

[Clayton38]

Tool - Adam Jones' tone at the very end of "Reflection"
****o for Pyros - Peter Distefano on "Good God's Urge"
King Crimson - Adrian Belew and Robert Fripp on "Walking on Air"

[Epiphone8]

good question, guess id say (to name a few)

the bends album - radiohead, jonnys guitar just kills
serve the servents - nirvana
blind - korn, really heavy
any queen song, brain may has the ultimate tone!
voodoo child (slight return) - jimi hendrix experience

[stratocaster83]

david gilmour - shine on you crazy diamonds

what amazes me is the fact that is not a combination of effect + guitars + amps + whatever, but the man himself...

[Epiphone8]

nope bit expensive for a 10 watt

[stratocaster83]

Originally posted by gururyan
Did you see the new Vox amp? It's a $150 "Brian May" limited edition 10 watt practice amp.

yes it's cool!!! but it kills if you use it in order to overdrive a real AC30 to get brian may's sound.

I preferred to post the one whe made me want to pick up a guitar when I was 9, but surely brian may would have been in the top 10!!!!

[stratocaster83]

Originally posted by Epiphone8
nope bit expensive for a 10 watt

it only worths if you have an AC30, or a tube amp!

[ledfloyd]

Led Zeppelin - II - The Lemon Song -the coolest thickest fuzz
Pink Floyd - DSOTM - Money solo where it he switches from wet & echoey to dry and back. Too Cool!

[Satch_21]

John Frusiciante (god his name is hard to spell) - Scar Tissue

Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride (the rhythm part)

Robby Krieger (the doors) - Peace frog

theres more but i dont have all day

[kingtrebor01]

Hmmmm.....probably a couple.

Kurt Cobain's tone on the "In Bloom" solo - Nevermind
Whoever does the solo on "What Goes On" (it's either Lou Reed or Sterling Morrison) - The Velvet Underground
Jack White on "Black Math"- Elephant
Jimi Hendrix on "Fire"- Are You Experienced

...and probably many others.

[dead_and_alive]

James Hetfield of Metallica's tone , i love his tone especially on ...And Justice For All , Load and Garage Inc , i also love his tone on S&M , specific song with the tone i love would have to be Turn The Page

[Lee]

I would have to say that I love the guitar tone in "When I Come Around" by Green Day. Such a nice distorted sound, I love it!

[TheWizard]

Anyone noticed how many times Hendrix comes up? My fav's are Bodisatva(Steely Dan) and Voodoo Chile(Jimi) and Disarm live(smashing pumpkins) and Zero(smashing pumpkins.

[AndyLES]

My favorites:

James Hetfield - Anything on the Black Album. Whine all you want about the direction Metallica took, but his tone was brutal!

The Edge - "Where the Streets have no name." If God plays guitar, it would sound like this.

Richard Lloyd - (ex-Television guitarist) from his solo album the cover doesn't matter. One of the best overdriven Strat sounds ever.

Eric Clapton - From the Cream era. REEEEAAALLLY sweet neck position humbucker sound. And I just LOVE the solo on "Badge" :D

KISS - love the Marshall/Les Paul tone on their first album. Really basic, no BS tone. Gotta love it!

AC/DC - Specifically Malcolm Young...and another basic no-frills sound. It's not as distorted as you may think.

Alex Lifeson - The opposite of the last two. I loved his early '80s/Late '70s Moving Pictures sound. The chorus effect on his rhythm sound is really sweet.

Steve Jones - from the Sex Pistols. Loud, obnoxious, and rough: in other words, PUNK!

Def Leppard - Similar to Lifeson. This was the band that got me into rock and roll!

Van Halen - No explanation necessary!

[The User]

Im just going to pick albums.

Pearl Jam Vitalogy
Sonic Youth Dirty
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation

[stratocaster83]

Originally posted by TheWizard
Anyone noticed how many times Hendrix comes up?

hendrix IS the electric guitar. I love the sound of the album "axis: bold as love" & "electric ladyland". strange enough anyone mentioned "1984" as a perfect tone...

[motorcycle loop]

Soundgarden-Superunknown-Like Suicide

That overdriven sound is something I've never been able to replicate. His extra-long solo there is amazing as well.

White Stripes-White Blood Cells-Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground

Many people on this board hate Jack White , but as a garage player myself, I think the guys a genius.


There are many more, but that's what I can come up with now.

[prime_monkfish]

the Siamese Dream album by the pumpkins-for me its just the full on UMMPHHH! of the big muff in all its glory!

I also love the tones on teenage riot by sonic youth

[GDan]

Deftones-Feiticeria

The intro especially, Its strange, It sounds really metallic and synthetic but not like any effect I've ever heard. And stephen carpenters sound is just fantastic anyway.

After that, Tool

[flamekaster]

The greatest blues tone to me is SRV Texas Flood for the Texas Flood album
Also
Cross Fire-SRV
Cold Shot- SRV
Pride & Joy- SRV
NO ONE has better tone than Stevie
I also like
Mike McCready & Stone Gossard on Alive from Ten
Under the Bridge(and that whole album) from John of the RHCP
Tom Morrelo Killing in the Name of from RATM
Doyle Bramhall II from the SMoke Stack album
Jimi Hnedrix- Machine Gun, Highway Chile, Spanish Castle Magic, & Voodoo Chile(slight return)

For Country no one has better tone than Brad Paisley!!! He wails through his 3 Dr. Z amps!!

[stratocaster83]

oh I forgot to add ritchie blackmroe tone: I don't particularly like the musician, but his tone is very inspiring, especially on rainbow's "rising" and -of course- the hell he raised live in "made in japan"... but also the mark III production was lovely!!!

[boyecho]

man... or astro-man? on the 'made from technecium' album. it was so dark and metallic. i would kill to learn how to get that tone.

other than that, the new fugazi 'argument' and the new sonic youth 'murray street'. especially kim gordons fast, ultra high pitched sonic freak out on 'the empty page'.

[bLuZ_RoCkz]

you godda love Stevie Ray's tone on his instrumental version of "Little Wing" so powerfull!

[jacobhimself]

hendrix - fire, all along the watchtower
slash - end solo in november rain
Acdc - ANYTHING.....
Queen - killer queen
sublime - under my voodoo
john fruciante - his clean tone rules.
nirvana - aneurysm

[jacobhimself]

BAH!! forgot to mention little wing by hendrix!!

[jcoriha]

"Starla"

[ledfloyd]

Originally posted by TheWizard
Anyone noticed how many times Hendrix comes up? Voodoo Chile(Jimi)

That reminds me how great SRV's tone in his version of Voodoo Chile was.

[ben murphy]

pretty much anything on "ride the fader" by chavez. gibsons with p-90's either a jcm 800 or a '70 superlead and teh occasional mxr distortion plus. simple and awesome.

[wihaga83]

Led Zeppelin - " for your life "
Hendrix - " all along the watchtower"

My dream tone

[skodt dePram]

Led Zeppelin II in its entirety

R.E.M.'s "The One I Love"

the 45rpm version of "Revolution" by the Beatles

[fatgraymatt]

EVH - Runnin with the Devil. Nobody else had a sound anywhere near that huge back in '78.

I really dig the tones Metallica got on the Black album, the overdriven sounds on Holier than Thou & Sad but True especially, the clean sounds on Nothing Else Matters, pretty nifty.

Both SRV and Gilmour have always gotten amazing tones also, too many for me to list here.

[legend]

Dirty:
"Thickfreakness" - The Black Keys. The fuzz and the slide at the start are enough to make me cry.
"All Your Love" - Clapton & Mayall. Disgustingly good tone all over the Bluesbreakers record. I think this tune was the first time i'd ever heard a distorted guitar. Awesome.
"Groanin' the Blues" - Clapton. Again, a load of cracking tones all over the "From the Cradle" record, but this is quintessential. Anyone that said Clapton had bad tone later on is talking bollocks. Strat + volume = good. Always. Unless i'm playing.
"BBFIII" and "Moya" - GY!BE. The distortion in these tracks just goes so well with the pieces. Really, really well played and recorded.
"We Are the Pigs" - Suede. Trashy, overdubbed to hell, stunningly well played.
"Dances Fantastic" - Neva Dinova. The guitar solo itself is superb. The tone is even better. Fuzzy, yet really articulate.
"Art is Hard" - Cursive. I could've picked any Cursive tune, really. I just like how abrasive their sound is.

Mildy Dirty/Clean:
"Touch Feel and Lose" - Ryan Adams. I love the combination of slight dirt, reverb and tremolo on this. Really well played, too.
"Jockey Full of Bourbon" - Tom Waits. Can you tell i really like tremolo and reverb?
"In a Little While" - U2. Not a massive fan, but good God, that's a great clean/breakup sound. Bassman's kick arse.
"Evil" - Howlin' Wolf. Genius. That is all.
"Waterfront" - John Lee Hooker. Possibly the most beautiful song ever made. One of nicest, most "lovely" songs ever. Anyone that accused JLH of not being able to play were missing the point. And deaf.
"When my Left Eye Jumps" - Buddy Guy. That's the best advert for a Strat, ever, IMO.
"Worry, Worry" - BB King. The "Live at the Regal" version. Amazing.
"Stay Together" - Suede. Bernard Butler was the man. Nice use of Bigsby, feedback and overdubs.
"Ball & Biscuit" - The White Stripes. The guitar in the verses is just... wow.
"Lover, You Should've Come Over" - Jeff Buckley. The riff as it's building towards the crescendo in the coda. Sounds like a cranked Vibrolux. **** hot.
"I Want You" - Elvis Costello. So aggressive and brutal and dissonant.

Acoustic:
"Angeles" - Elliott Smith. Intimate, perfectly played. Beautiful part.
"Death Letter Blues" - Son House. The sound of man smashing the hell out of his guitar. Amazing execution.
"Kindhearted Woman Blues" - Robert Johnson. Obviously.
Anything by Wilco. Their acoustics always sound great.


Sorry for the long list. I'm really bored.

[The Strokes]

Well I just love Hendrix's tone especially on his blues stuff.

Hendrix - Little Wing
Hendrix - Red House
Hendrix - Born Under a Bad Sign
Hendrix - Voodoo Chile Blues

+1 Velvet Underground - What Goes On

[cooterbrown]

Some of my favs:

Eric Johnson - "High Landrons"

Alex Lifeson - "Hemispheres"

Billy Gibbons - all the different tones he gets on "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide"

Jeff Beck - "Constipated Duck"

Jimmy Page - "Trampled Under Foot"

I'll second EVH's tone on "Drop Dead Legs", and also add "Unchained"

SRV on "Cold Shot" and "Riviera Paradise"

John Lennon on his solo breaks in the jam part of "The End".

[Talent?!]

Pick any song off the DLR era Van Halen albums.

[Niels]

Jimi Hendrix
SRV
Josh Homme
James Hettfield
Kirk Hammet
John Frusciante

...

word..

[siknessinwi]

Adam Jones, especially on aenima
Willie Adler and Mark Morton(lamb of god), gotta love those Mark IV's
Dimebag, especially Vulgar Display of Power and The Great Southern Trendkill
It Dies today
Kurt Ballou(Converge), I hated his tone at first, but I havent heard anyone else pull it off like he does, and who the hell puts EMG 81's in a Ric
gotta save the best for last, the man himself, EVH

[nutromanhistory]

yeah adam jones.again especialy on aenima. it never ceases to amaze me.

[sad machines]

Originally posted by jcoriha
"Starla"


Awesome "Pumpkins" fuzz! Definitely a sound that has influenced my personal tone a whole lot. I love the swirling phaser/wah effect on the solo too. I've tried to figure out what the heck that is...with no luck.

How about "Hello Kitty Kat" also?

[clnh5]

I think this is a given for any guitarist that knows anything whatsoever about good tone...SRV. Period. Especially on the song "Lenny".
A few of mine are:
- Willie Alder and Mark Morton of Lamb Of God off of they're album Ashes Of The Wake.
- Mikael Åkerfeldt and Peter Lindgren of Opeth off of they're album Blackwater Park.
- Coco Montoya (just look him up) amazing blues guitarist, his mentor was John Mayall.
- A little known blues guitarist in the bay area known as Johnny Nitro, hes got tone for days.
- B.B. King
- Pepper Keenan from Corrosion Of Conformity/Down.
- Adam Jones of course, pure wall of sound, not many people realize he's using 3 seperate amps at the same time, which is brilliant. Especially to get those thunderous lows, and brilliant highs.

[RUSHFANnLV]

The tone Alex got on Moving Pictures will always be my fave but Hemispheres is a definate second.

Now for my non Rush fave tones:;)

Kid Charlemagne - Steeley Dan

Fair Warning - Van Halen

Ribin Guthrie - everything he's done:)

[gilmourgirls]

Adam Jones on "Lateralus"
Jonny Greenwood on "Just"
Buzz Osboure on "Honeybucket"
CKY on "Familiar Realm"

[Ro0sT3R]

Van Halen 1 - You Pick ("Runnin with the Devil")
Slash - "Sweet Child of Mine"
Hendrix - "Little Wing"
Billy Gibbons (pre-MTV) - Just about anything "Lagrange", etc.
Clapton - Bluesbreaker Stuff, Layla, etc.
Angus Young's early stuff - "High Voltage"-era
Jimmy Page - "Houses of the Holy"-era with Rain Song, Over the Hills, etc.

[Elkvis]

Originally posted by skodt dePram
the 45rpm version of "Revolution" by the Beatles

Are you kidding? that's the muddiest, crappiest fuzzy tone I have ever heard.

but in any case, my favorites are as follows:

for an overdriven sound, I have to go with Boston - More than a Feeling

for clean, Temple of the Dog - Hunger strike. gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.

for a metal type of tone, Killswitch Engage has a pretty badass tone on 'The End of Heartache" album.

[AtTheDriveIn]

One of my more recent tones i love is Catamaran by Bear Vs. Shark...a nice set of speakers, that piece of guitar at the begining gives me shivers.
Of course, thats just a specific part of the song..

[Talent?!]

Originally posted by AtTheDriveIn
One of my more recent tones i love is Catamaran by Bear Vs. Shark...a nice set of speakers, that piece of guitar at the begining gives me shivers.
Of course, thats just a specific part of the song..

What about "Talk Dirty to me" by Poison. ;)

[SGROCKER0791]

Mikael Åkerfeldt - "The Grand Conjuration" (Laney)
John Petrucci - "Honor Thy Father" (Mesa Boogie Road King + Lonestar)
Rob Flyann - "Imperium" (5150)
Michael Amott - "Nemesis" (5150)

[auralevolution]

darren malakian can do no wrong with his distortion

john frusciante can do no wrong with his cleans

[JoeM]

Gilmour all the way

From Pulse: Sorrow and Any colour you like.
All of Dark Side
All of Wish you Were Here
All of The Wall


Its just all too good, the guy is a genius.....oh, and of course, marooned from the Strat Pack DVD and everything Pink FLoyd did at Live 8.


Seriously, does anyone have better tone than David Gilmour? I think not.

i also like - Clapton (70's-80's era), SRV, Jimmy Page, Satriani, ZZ top (love those harmonics) and Marillion (self confessed Pink Floyd on a budget).


Joe

[veyero]

couldnt stand the weather- srv
scuttlebuttin- srv
welcome home- coheed
breathe life- kse

[Fatam]

March of the pig - Nin

Any andres segova bet classical player ever....

Plug in baby - muse

Creep and exit music (for a film) radiohead

Nib - Sabath

and rany Rammstein

And any floyd and hedrix but ever one knows that :D


Peace out


Adam

[buchanan-d]

Clapton - Crossroads

Beck - Where Were You and Nadia

Leslie West - Theme From An Imaginary Western

Duane Allman & ****y Betts- anything off Fillmore East

Larry Carlton

Robin Trower - Daydream and Into Dust

Hendrix - Wind Cries Mary and Power To Love

EVH - Finish What You Started

[Ghettometalhead]

Any song by Tool. Warning by Incubus. Every song Killswitch Engage as ever done. Breezin by George Benson and as much as the album is bombed......Put your lights on by Santana and whats his face from House of Pain.:D

[evildik]

Originally posted by pardo
Daveyboy, you mentioned 2 killer tones!

I'm gonna say:

Edward Van Halen - Drop Dead Legs - 1984

Dunno why, but that sound of Edwards guitar on that tune absolutely floors me. Its really expressive and warm. My ideal tone!

I'd have to dig out the 1984 cassette to remind myself of the exact tonce, but that's probably my favorite VH tune ever.

[skodt dePram]

yeah, revolution is fuzz y & dirty & that's what makes it sound so good. It's just mean.

'1984' has basically the same guitar sound as the other VH albums IMHO , but something about it just sounds cleaner.

[bluesy_marquee]

Far too many. Let's say:

Rory Gallagher - Walking on Hot Coals - Irish Tour 1974
Steppenwolf - The Pusher - Steppenwolf
The Jefferson Airplane - We Can Be Together - Volunteers

These are 3 tones that I remember drive me totally insane. Judging from above, I wonder why my amp is SS :D

[bluesy_marquee]

I don't understand this passion for SRV, also the fact that most people say "listen to his version of Hendrix" :rolleyes: May I stick to Hendrix or is that a crime?

[legend]

Originally posted by Elkvis

for clean, Temple of the Dog - Hunger strike. gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.

Oooooh, good choice! I like that a lot, too. I really like the song, as well.


bluesy_marquee -
I never got SRV, either. I can see he was a great player, and he had a good Texas blues sound, but something about him doesn't jive with me, for some reason. For the most part, i think this weird deification thing people have for him is pretty unjustified - just me, though. I don't wanna step on on anyone's toes or anything.

[BleezeMonkey]

+1 to the single version of "Revolution" by the Beatles

Howerdel's guitar tone on "Mer de Noms"
"Dinner with a Gypsy" by He Is Legend
"Pure Concentrated Evil" by Open Hand
"Out There" by Dinosaur Jr
"Magic Man" by Heart
"Backwater" by the Meat Puppets

[BASSMUNKEE]

Originally posted by BleezeMonkey

Howerdel's guitar tone on "Mer de Noms"


Cracking, although I would also add "Judith" to that.
-Guitar on Parabola - Tool/Lateralus
-Main - There Is Only Light on Hydra/Calm, the entire track is just amazing
-Jesu - everything - (esp. beginning of "Friends Are Evil"), well actually anything involving Justin Broadrick to be honest, and Ben Green's Bass tone was killer when he used to do his thing.
:D

[CompadreAlto]

Dean Ween's solo tone on just about every Ween song.

Seriously not a lot of people give them the credit they deserve, just because they think it's a joke band. Can't a band be both funny and relevant? C'mon, listen to the Beatles and tell me there isn't any humor in some of it. Listen to Pixies and tell me they weren't having a good laugh. I know there were times when both those bands did serious work, but Ween has some pretty serious stuff too. Sorry about the rant I just hold Ween in a very high regard and can't tell why people always just put them down *sigh* :( I guess I'm just weird

[_pheonix_]

John Frusciante- I Could Have Lied- the solo :eek: and his tone on By the Way album
Matt Bellamy- Absolution

[thefobia]

I have a few that spring to mind from varying ends of the tonal spectrum.

King Crimson - epitaph - the lead guitar in the intro. I love a lot of Robert Fripp's tones though.

Free - Anything with Paul Kossof's Les Paul and Marshall setup.

Necrophagist - Seven - The perfectly balanced metal sound IMO.

Metallica- Sad but True - More of a production thing, but each and every instrument in the song sounds beyond massive without dominating the mix. I don't know how Bob Rock did it, but I think he's on to something... ;) :D

Sikth- Scent of the obscene- almost van halen-esque mid heavy chaos. Very unique tone in the current 'metal' climate.

[dlriumtrigger3]

Originally posted by johnny
jimi hendrix - electric ladyland - all along the watchtower

if that tone doesn't make you cream your pants, i don't know what will

amen

Originally posted by GDan
Deftones-Feiticeria

The intro especially, Its strange, It sounds really metallic and synthetic but not like any effect I've ever heard. And stephen carpenters sound is just fantastic anyway.

After that, Tool

the white pony sound is really unique, really excellent. and adam jones is the man.

Originally posted by auralevolution
darren malakian can do no wrong with his distortion

john frusciante can do no wrong with his cleans

the system of a down s/t album still has one of my favorite heavy tones ever. john frusciante is just a magician with his tone.

i'd like to add, for high-gain:
unearth - the oncoming storm
...simply perfect

and an old, all-time favorite:
metallica - master of puppets

[Talent?!]

Originally posted by thefobia
Sikth- Scent of the obscene- almost van halen-esque mid heavy chaos. Very unique tone in the current 'metal' climate.

Yes! Good call.

Next month. :D

[NattyB]

Pretty hard to beat YouKnowWho on "Sunshine of Your Love"...

[Publius]

the tops for tone:

White Snake's In the Still of the Night (specifically the rhythm guitar parts)

Vito Bratta's tone on the Pride and Big Game

Joe Satriani on the album Not of This Earth (his tone started to blow after that)

Stevie Ray Vaughn--everything he ever touched sounded magical

Def Leppard's tone on the song Love Bites

The Edge pre-1990

Angus Young pre-1990

The Police had an excellent guitar tone in their earlier albums

Marty Friedman (in his serious shredder days--circa Dragon's Kiss)

Metallica rhythm tone on The Thing That Should Not Be

could go on and on....
:D

[Publius]

Totally forgot ! Even though I didn't really dig their songs much, I love their guitarists tone---The Smiths

[BleezeMonkey]

Originally posted by BASSMUNKEE
Cracking, although I would also add "Judith" to that.
"Mer de Noms" is the album "Judith" is from. :)

[BASSMUNKEE]

Originally posted by BleezeMonkey
"Mer de Noms" is the album "Judith" is from. :)

D'OH!!! :(
And YOU get the prize for spotting my deliberate mistake... :p
...well you get the idea!! <ahem>

[cooterbrown]

Originally posted by bluesy_marquee
I don't understand this passion for SRV, also the fact that most people say "listen to his version of Hendrix" :rolleyes: May I stick to Hendrix or is that a crime?

You may, indeed. I am a SRV fanatic, but I thought his version of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" was laughably strident and self-indulgent.

Maybe it's because that is truly my favorite Hendrix moment...just some of the most soul-touching, trancendent playing ever put to tape...maybe it's just the LSD talking. About 22 years ago I had the most beautiful acid trip, ever, while llistening to Electric Ladyland, and specifically, that track.

SRV's "Little Wing" sounds much better...more of a legitimate tribute, than the wanky run-through than his version of "Voodoo Child" was.

[greasykitchen]

I would add:

Neil Young on the Zuma album - especially 'Danger Bird' and Cortez the Killer' - old Les Paul through a cranked Tweed Deluxe

Frank Zappa The Helsinki Concert - 'Inca Roads' especially - SG and Marshall

Some early Richard Thompson - eg 'Roll Over Vaugh Williams', 'Night Comes In' - clean and twangy

I recently saw the Bob Dylan movie 'No Direction Home' with him playing electric at the Newport Folk Festival which had Mike Bloomfield playing some stinging blues licks on 'Maggie's Farm' with a Tele

And Brian May

Also agree with Alex Lifeson, the Edge and especially Gilmour

[JoeM]

It's been mentioned before... but David Gilmour on Shine On you Crazy Diamond, the first solo.
It's just sooooooo smooth and warm and yet floaty and mellow, then he kicks in a bit and it gets a bit more raw, yet still beautiful.

Also, an unusual one, Dave's tone on Terminal Frost, from the Momentary Lapse of Reason album...... it's a very modern yet still very much David Gilmour tone.

To be honest, I love all of David Gilmours tones, in both Pink Floyd and his solo stuff.

Also, Eric Claptons tone on Phil Collins dull 80's hit "I wish it would Rain Down" and Stings "Probably ME", both uninspiring songs with great Claptone sounds.

Joe

[GD123]

rhandy roads - crazy train (probably one of fav distorted tones and solo tones)

tom morello - pretty much anything

thee michelle gun elephant - the best dirtiest nastiest tone ever (if you haven't heard them dl them!! insane jap punk)

lamb of god - awesome unique metal tone (fav: in defense of our good name, subtle arts of murder and persuasion)

jeff beck - people get ready

o and for acoustic: the jimmy page and robert plant 94 collabo No Quarter

anyways, I could go on and on with this...

[Sockmonkey]

Just wanted to add some things outside of the mainstream of this thread:

Yo La Tengo- Ira's solo in Stokholm Syndrome (plus the feedback freakouts live- priceless)

Blur- Graham's tone in On Your Own

The Libertines- the dirty guitar sound in Vertigo (and all the other songs too- it might be the Mick Jones' production, but it is wonderful to my ears- to me that is what guitars are supposed to sound like).

Steve Jones (already mentioned) Had to add him because I think he's the only person (or at least the 1st) to think of cranking up a Fender Twin to 10 for distortion

Greg Ginn- the sick and disturbing tones on Black Flag- Damaged (imho the heavyest album of all time)

[G6add9]

Originally posted by daveyboy
Name a couple OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD:

"Pets".................................................. .... ****o For Pyros

"Shimmer" .............................................. Fuel

"The Emporer's New Clothes" ................. Sinead O'Connor

"Pictures Of You" .................................... The Cure (THIS SONG RULES!)

[InvalidInk]

Necrophagist - Seven - The perfectly balanced metal sound IMO.

agreed

Nels Cline- Instrumentals

King Crimson- Power To Believe

[Ravelle]

Dinosaur Jr. - Out There
Mastodon - Seabeast. both guitarists have awesome tones that work really well together
Pink Floyd - Hey You
Slayer - Anything
Muse- Anything
Slint - Anything off of Spiderland

[Ravelle]

Originally posted by NattyB
Pretty hard to beat YouKnowWho on "Sunshine of Your Love"...

I didn't know that Voldemort was a Guitar player. DIE HARRY POTTER DIE!!!

[evenflow502]

The flanging overdriven tone in "Present Tense" by Pearl Jam

[wisdomview]

David Gilmour (Pink Floyd). The whole Animals album especially the end of 'Sheep'.

[Zeppelanoid]

yes.......die Harry Potter indeed!


anyways I would have to say definantly Jimmy Page's tone, especially on "No Quarter" from Houses of the Holy......thats tone to die for.

[maelstrom]

Refused...Deadly Rhythm

eyehategod...(you really have to check em out live to appreciate the tone..i really don't think they've captured it well on their albums)

unsane...( another band to see live to appreciate...i really dig the way that bottom heavy bass meshes with that super-fuzzed out tele...what a perfectly sick tone!!!)

metallica...master of puppets...( i really, truthfully HATE metallica but i have to admitt hetfield nailed a killer tone on that album)

andrew weiss, rollins band...the end of silence...( when i think of HEAVY i think of andy's bass work on this album...earth-shattering!)

east bay ray, dead kennedys...jesus was a terrorist...(when i was a kid this was the song that made save up and buy a big muff and a marshall!)

zeke...( great tone! old-skool like a motherf*cker! i really dig that "plug'n play" sound...guitar straight into the amp, turn it to ten and hit the strings hard and fast...sick!!!)

[Dan the Man]

I posted in a thread almost identical to this a while ago and I said Pressure Zone by Beck and Replicas by Deadsy. I still think they're the best.

In case you've never heard their version of Replicas, the guy basically gets about a minute of sustain out of one chord with no feedback using normal humbuckers.

[Bad Luck]

I love the tone on everlong by the foo fighters really good sound to me.

[ickyjim]

I think Cantrell got a great sound on the first Alice in Chains record.

[Moo]

Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing

[AllmanFan]

Dave Gilmour- Echoes. Actually most all of his tones.

Hendrix. Machine Gun, Pali Gap, Born Under a Bad Sign, 1984, May This Be Love, All Along The Watchtower. Okay pretty much everything.

Allman Bros. Blue Sky, Melissa, Mountain Jam

Santana. Taboo. Longest sustained note I've ever heard!
Moonflower, Samba Para Ti, Everything Is Coming Our Way,

Crosby Stills and Nash- Wooden Ships. The Lee Shore. Just a Song Before I Go...I still want to know how Stills get's that solo sound.


SRV- Riviera Paradise, Lenny

[laa0815]

Anything by the Cure where the Fender Bass VI is used... A 60s Bass VI into an old Peavey Musician ss head with chorus and delay... just one of the best clean dreamy melancholic sounds ever... (e.g. Pictures of You, Closedown, Untitled - all of the Disintegration album)

Greets, Dominik

[Rahab]

Vai
Firewall (rawest most badass guitar sound ever)
Whispering a Prayer (the tone on this song convinced me to get a sustainer. HUGE)
Touching Tongues (Vai wins the gold medal for great tone)

Blind Guardian
Nightfall
When Sorrow Sang (These are what all metal should sound like)

Morbid Angel
God of Emptiness (This is what it sounds like in Hell)

Tool
Prison Sex (dunno what he's got goin on on the backline, but man the tone on this song is what makes the song for me, and turned me onto the band to begin with)

[Arg0]

Journey (Neal Schon) - Frontiers - Seperate Ways (Worlds Apart)


I absolutely worship the rhythm guitar tone... So full... But what else do you get when you give a virtuoso like Neal 3 rack boxes full of toys... I mean the man has a PRS singlecut with a Fernandes Sustainer, a DiMarzio Mini Rail, a Floyd Rose Trem and a Roland GK pickup... Talk about crowded... :D


Bruce ****inson (Roy Z) - Chemical Wedding - Trumpets Of Jericho


Rumor has it that both Roy and Adrian, re-strung their guitars with bass strings for this one. Whatever the truth is its still a killer riff played at a ripping pace with what has to be one of the heaviest, yet cleanest, metal tones ever....


Alex Skolnick Trio (Alex Skolnick) - Live In NY 2005 (bootleg) - Still Lovin' You


Well, he quit a Thrash band in its prime to go back to college and study jazz guitar. I mean a man that mental has to have good tone... Just a couple of pedals and a Gibson archtop to make a guitar tone sweet enough to send you to heaven.

I'd better stop myself now, I'm supposed to be working... :D

[no_happy]

i have a few:

mono - my favourite post rock tone, just a really nice mellowness to it that they display

isis - just an ultimate heavy tone

slowdive - just so warm and fuzzy, it gives me goosepimples

sigur ros - just really nice tone, and collection of simple complimentary sounds

and finally trail of dead just is amazing rock tone

[jimijonjames]

jjjjjames

i think killing floor by howlin wolf has good tone, but thats just me, and any song with brian may. angus young also has good tone but especialy on soul stripper. jimmy page on rock n' roll also.

[mewithoutus]

Mineral - Palisade


It's just such a full sounding tone, on both guitars. the bass sits in there nicely too. those opening chords just sound so thick and wonderful. i love it. too bad mineral broke up in 99, they where a great group. sigh...

[Talent?!]

Cliff of Dover-Eric Johnson

Only REALLY listened to it quite recently.

[Paradoxon]

Smashing Pumkins-Soma

King Crimson-Starless and Bible Black

Radiohead-There There

Sonic Youth-Sugar Kane

Alice In Chains-Them Bones

Mahavishnu Orchestra-Birds of Fire

[floridag8tors12]

Dani California- Red Hot CHili Peppers

[clnh5]

WOW, i'm surprised someone else has heard of Eyehategod, they are excellent, slow-tempoed, southern sludge metal at its best. Those guys along with Down, crowbar, superjoint ritual, corrosion of conformity, etc are among some of my fav. metal acts.

[fburn666]

SRV -The Sky is Crying

Between the Buried and Me-Alaska

Unearth -Every song

KwE- Set this world ablaze (DVD)

[nofearfactor]

Mushroomhead-Solitaire Unraveling
Soulfly-Prophecy
Machinehead-Burn My Eyes
FearFactory-Archetype
WhiteZombie-Welcome to Planet Mother****er
Pantera-Drag The Waters

[Talent?!]

Originally posted by clnh5
WOW, i'm surprised someone else has heard of Eyehategod, they are excellent, slow-tempoed, southern sludge metal at its best. Those guys along with Down, crowbar, superjoint ritual, corrosion of conformity, etc are among some of my fav. metal acts.

Maybe because they are awesome? ;)