All-Time Favourite Tones

[Capt. Black]

Gawd, so much to choose from.

Marshall clean!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN-Kh4eYKD4[/youtube]

The first 14 seconds are IMHO the most exciting guitar sound I've ever heard. How one could ever replicate that is beyond me.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skNeD4Sv798[/youtube]

Guitar as it ought to be played and recorded. No high gain preamp drive here. It's all SG bite and strum the fuck out of it to make it distort.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk6kvVGPURA[/youtube]

Kinda perfect.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW6G3nh5S3I[/youtube]

Sweet As
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgiDINcZ-q4[/youtube]

Davey and Mick, remaking it better...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A36NI1Ov_c0[/youtube]

Swallow...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylOCIP54PIQ[/youtube]

Belew re-writing the book on guitar sounds and solos. go to 1:50 and 5:20
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW1IqW6kNdU[/youtube]

Desertion
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOjWB81Wxjg[/youtube]

Every part a winner...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmIqIVxUuKs[/youtube]

That'll do for now.

[sty]

These are some of the types of tone I really like, guitar that stands out in a rock setting rather than getting buried in the mix. It was difficult to find good versions of some of these.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMUYBDD1v8E[/youtube]
The Almighty - Free and Easy
This is the live at Donnington version, the album version is great as well but can't find the official video here in NZ. The lead guitar tone on this is great and stands out even on this which should be a bit muddy given it's an old live recording. They were the first band on stage this day and were great.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX0h6nQKgb4[/youtube]
Michael Schenker - Doctor Doctor 1981
Everything about this is great, totally Schenker, the reason I want to play guitar. Great band line up for him as well on this.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc329GImgl4[/youtube]
Michael Schenker - Rock Bottom 2012
More Schenker, but bang up to date and rocking the Dean now. Still great, especially when he gets into the meandering extended guitar solo section.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aZUSaauh1k[/youtube]
Iron Maiden - 22 Acacia Avenue (Live After Death from Hammersmith version)
Love Adrian Smiths tone on the intro and generally all the way through this.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLSntea6bkI[/youtube]
Billy Duffy - here on Sammy Hagar's song Loud
I've always like Billy Duffy's tone and it always seems to stand out for me. I tried to find a decent version of a cult song on youtube but none grabbed me the way I remember, so settled for this where he plays on a Sammy Hagar solo song, his sound always seems to stand out on top of everything else.


Almost wanted to put Airbourne Running Wild, and David Lee Roth Just Like Paradise (Steve Vai) in as well, but I think the above is enough.

[Hot_Grits]

I wouldn't know where to end...

[Kloppsta]

how could i have missed these! first 3 are NZ bands! kiwis have good toan

iconic riff with a sweet crunchy "hollow" tone that cuts thru the mix

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdTUG0TGVI[/youtube]

creamy distorion with great note seperation and "roundness"

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8gdhkNFOXw[/youtube]

love the crispy goodness of this riffy tune

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sULo7ewU6l8[/youtube]

fuzzed out 8-bit awesomeness by the man Robin Finck

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lqsx2Jn4hE[/youtube]

[Pastasauce]

Love Jon Toogood's tone - the crunch chords behind the riff in the verse of Home Again, the massive General Electric riff, and the bridge of The Metal Song.

I like how his tone is heavy and meaty, but still bright.

[vintage52]

Must say that Sammy Hagar song with Duffy playing is awesome!

Love The Cult.

Probably the best concert I've seen for sheer balls to the wall rock.

Like Billys tones!!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moZ1fe7cPzY[/youtube]

[sty]

Must say that Sammy Hagar song with Duffy playing is awesome!

Love The Cult.

Probably the best concert I've seen for sheer balls to the wall rock.

Like Billys tones!!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moZ1fe7cPzY[/youtube]

WOW, now that's exactly the tone for Duffy I was trying to find, it's how it always seems to sound on Radio which is why it's always stood out in my mind.

Interestingly enough given I like Schenker's sound a lot they both seem to be drenched in a lot of Wah (Schenker back in the day used to leave his Wah half cocked and on all the time).

I have Steve Stephens in my mind as someone who's tone I like.

I'm beginning to suspect I'm seriously into the Gibson (mostly Les Paul) Humbucker sound, probably into Marshalls I guess (so nothing particularly original)

[vintage52]

I have Steve Stephens in my mind as someone who's tone I like.

I really like Steve's tone.

All of Idols stuff with Steve to me is the best.

I might have to back track and say Billy Idol live at Mt Smart in 1987 is superior to the Wellington Town Hall Cult concert.

[druz15]

+1 to Steve Stevens.

And Mick Ronson. Godly tone from an LP custom a wah and a marshall stack

[sizzlingbadger]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnMFOeEPUks[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbJI1y0i1mk[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqh54rSzheg[/youtube]

[handlefras]

how could i have missed these! first 3 are NZ bands! kiwis have good toan


creamy distorion with great note seperation and "roundness"

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8gdhkNFOXw[/youtube]

Mmm, loved this album (and still do).

[Emir]

Love this tone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV8JlNdcOEs

Eric Clapton's classic strat sound...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nGPQ_YPDbU

Not sure what Envers using here, but I saw him using a Godin live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhrH5Tfq3Vs

and for a heavier distorted tone...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0bIQyMsK9Q

[Danger Mouse]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMUYBDD1v8E[/youtube]
The Almighty - Free and Easy
This is the live at Donnington version, the album version is great as well but can't find the official video here in NZ. The lead guitar tone on this is great and stands out even on this which should be a bit muddy given it's an old live recording. They were the first band on stage this day and were great.

I was at that MoR, after growing up in Nelson, where a "metal gig" was 20 drunk bogans moshing to a thrash metal covers band playing in Richmond Town Hall, it was a shock to the system...

[jimi]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T9uzDasXag[/youtube]

This... godly.

I tried to think of some vids to post, but when I listened to a few of my favorite solos none of them struck me as great tone, a great sound in the context of the band / song, but not necessarily great tone.

Mike McCready - anything really, Im such a fan boy. I got ID stands out as a favorite
John Squier - I am the Resurrection
Johnny Greenwood - Anything from the Bends album
and secretly, Slash, November Rain, Sweet Child o' Mine, thick and bendy

[sty]

I was at that MoR, after growing up in Nelson, where a "metal gig" was 20 drunk bogans moshing to a thrash metal covers band playing in Richmond Town Hall, it was a shock to the system...

It was an awesome day, even if the weather was a bit cold if I remember right.

I dragged my Mrs. along and she hated most of the day, with the exception of Skid Row and Thunder, she particularly liked the fact that Thunder came on to that song at the start (it was actually AC/DC Thunderstruck)