5 Favorite guitar tones:

[Old BF Shred]

Here's one I don't see mentioned too often.....

Best clean tone:
Mark Knopfler; Sultans of Swing :shock:

 

[surferdeac]

Jimi Hendrix. Guys tone came from his fingers

i couldn't agree with this more. Guys like Hendrix, Timmons, vai, satch, johnson, rhodes, etc. have a gift in this department. just a complete mind/body embellisment of pure musical blisssssss

DYNAMICS -- DYNAMICS -- DYNAMICS --
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[JOEY B.]

DYNAMICS -- DYNAMICS -- DYNAMICS --
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SRV- Tin Pan Alley 8)
ZZ Top= Fool For Your Stockings
Allman Brothers- Duane's slide playing on "Stand Back"
The Lynyrd Skynrd Band- anything by Steve Gaines

For the metal crowd:

Accept- Balls to the Wall (Album)
Ozzy- Speak of the Devil (Album)

Anybody can sound "heavy" with some farked up tuning, these guys did it old school. :twisted: :twisted:

 

[Cleekster]

Iron Maiden: Aces High is AWESOME! Gotta love the wide vocal vibrato. Reminds me of good ol' classical voice!

System of a Down: Question. I love the heavy crunch. If I played in a metal band, I'd use a tone like this. I just find the 80's too dated for my tastes. Kind of like playing one's guitar through a mullet.

:? (Scratches head) :shock: :?:

 

[YellowJacket]

Iron Maiden: Aces High is AWESOME! Gotta love the wide vocal vibrato. Reminds me of good ol' classical voice!

System of a Down: Question. I love the heavy crunch. If I played in a metal band, I'd use a tone like this. I just find the 80's too dated for my tastes. Kind of like playing one's guitar through a mullet.

:? (Scratches head) :shock: :?:

Just because I like Mozart doesn't mean I need to write the same style of music as him. :lol:

 

[Cleekster]

Iron Maiden: Aces High is AWESOME! Gotta love the wide vocal vibrato. Reminds me of good ol' classical voice!

System of a Down: Question. I love the heavy crunch. If I played in a metal band, I'd use a tone like this. I just find the 80's too dated for my tastes. Kind of like playing one's guitar through a mullet.

:? (Scratches head) :shock: :?:

Just because I like Mozart doesn't mean I need to write the same style of music as him. :lol:

True enough......the WTF moment for me though was when your talking about system of a down and go right into how the 80's are too dated....F**king hilarious :mrgreen:

 

[surferdeac]

the WTF moment for me though was when your talking about system of a down and go right into how the 80's are too dated....F**king hilarious

i am 30 now and during my younger years -- middle school / junior high school i began getting into guitar during the time when grunge was had finished throwing water on the fire of the eighties had dribbled off into the 90's a bit. when i first started playing guitar everybody around me was getting into nirvanah and the like, and although i don't have anything against that sort of music i didn't feel like it stimulated my mind from a musical standpoint. Maybe the music from the 80's has become outdated to some, but if you set aside maybe how people dressed and some of the excesses of the time and some of the lyrical content in a lot of the well composed songs, the music of that era was very musical.

Pretty cool tones can out of that era as well!!!!!!!

if I was "forced to listen to pop music" today vs pop music of the 80's i would have a go with 80's pop (for the most part)

 

[YellowJacket]

Ya, Corey Hart urinates all over Justin Timberlake and he still has some left after!

I've heard a lot of bad 80s music (pop) and a lot of good music from 90s and onward but there is one thing that happened with Nirvana: People forgot how to play guitar. It is like virtuosity just went out of style and anything more than power chords is now considered pretentious. I remember my first band. The guitarist / vocalist was huge into the 80s still and every song we played had at least one solo in it. I was on keyboards for the first while so we had some crazy keyboard / guitar stuff going on. When I picked up guitar, I never looked back and maybe that was to our detriment.

I was at one of my first local shows and some guy was going on about how soloing was passe. I swear my groups I've been in are some of the few modern acts with crazy multi time signature breakdowns and decent lead work. It is starting to come back a bit, but I can't think of any fantastic modern guitarists.

Just for me personally, I like a modern tone. Even if I was to cover 80s music, I'd still go for that modern sound. This is just a case of preference, I guess.

 

[surferdeac]

[if I was "forced to listen to pop music" today vs pop music of the 80's i would have a go with 80's pop (for the most part)

i guess i should detract from this statement somewhat. when i was thinking about some old pop type stuff bands like genesis (not just 80's era band) and tears for fears esqe type musical stuff was flowing into my head(music that i enjoy listening to from time to time). i'm really not qualified to make a statement like this because i simply don't spend enough time listenenig to modern big record lable type music anymore (few exceptions) and more so find myself exploring the world of independent record label companies and learning about fellow musicians by discovering them on youtube and or internet

there is one thing that happened with Nirvana: People forgot how to play guitar. It is like virtuosity just went out of style and anything more than power chords is now considered pretentious

.

It also made it "cool" to embellish the look attitude and feel that came along with the band and opened the doors to the world of alternative grunge rock.

I swear my groups I've been in are some of the few modern acts with crazy multi time signature breakdowns and decent lead work. It is starting to come back a bit, but I can't think of any fantastic modern guitarists.

There are quite a few great playing modern guitarists around (instrumentalists) but you just don't hear about them as much because they aren't being endorsed by big record label companies for the most part because many people running these companies don't consider the music as marketable to the masses
(dumbmasses) .

 

[ryjan]

People forgot how to play guitar.

No kidding. The two bands that come to mind for at least attempting to be guitar oriented bands are Avenged Sevenfold and Dragonforce. Although, Dragonforce sounds like a neutered Iron Maiden.

 

[surferdeac]

Dragonforce sounds like a neutered Iron Maiden

:lol: sometimes i really think these guys try to play a little bit faster than their technical abilities (especially their lead guitarist) which to me results in sloppiness and unattractive prog feel.

 

[LTE]

Dragonforce is just tasteless generic power metal that happened to get into the limelight. Imo they sound nothing like Iron Maiden.

 

[Shin Chan]

korn
fall out boy
santana
stone sour
my chemical romance

 

[flieger67]

EVH - tie between "Fair Warning" and "II"

David Grissom - Storyville's "Piece of Your Soul" or Joe Ely's "Love and Danger"

Marc Richard Diglio (XYZ) - "Hungry"

Andy Timmons - "Resolution", particularly the track "Deliver Us"

Eric Johnson - practically any and all tones on "Tones" and "Ah Via Musicom"

 

[ryjan]

Dragonforce's singer looks like a clean shaven, young Wierd Al. :lol:

 

[Scrapinger]

OK....I'm talking what I have seen live as on records anything is possible.

1. David Gilmour ( Saw him at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga NY solo. In an open air ampitheater he sounded just f'in incredible. I have never since heard such sustain without sounding overly compressed).
2. SRV (Got to see him thrice, early, mid and late in his career and his early sound in the bar I saw him in just blew me away. Just tear your head off with every song. No body can make a strat growl like him.)
3. Pat Traverse (Not a huge Pat fan and not overly in awe of his talent, but his tone was unreal. Saw him in JB Scott's in Albany NY where I saw SRV and he had this stereo sound that just blew me away)
4. George Thurogood (Saw him at the Palace Theater in Albany NY in the early 80's and he just rocked. Just a great blues sound)
5. Angus (Saw him on the For Those About to Rock tour and what else can you saw...a wall of Marshalls, a SG and a sweaty little aussie. Good Stuff!!)
6. Me.....Gibson LP Heritage or Explorer through Mark IV via 2x12 Recto Cab w/ stereo out to a Mark IIB.

Worst? Man that's even harder, sticking with the live theme above....Joe Perry. Saw Areosmith back in the 80's when they were reunited and they were so wasted and the crowd was so loud that they just kept turning up the volume and it was horrid. They were about 4 minutes into Sweet Emotion before I realized what it was.

 

[JOEY B.]

Worst? Man that's even harder, sticking with the live theme above....Joe Perry. Saw Areosmith back in the 80's when they were reunited and they were so wasted and the crowd was so loud that they just kept turning up the volume and it was horrid. They were about 4 minutes into Sweet Emotion before I realized what it was.

Was that the "Done With Mirrors" tour? I saw that one in the mid '80s with Ted Nugent as the opening act. I have seen three different well known bands (Aerosmith, Bad Company, mid '90s Lynyrd Skynyrd) try to follow Uncle Ted onstage. One word of advice for anyone who is thinking of having the Motor City Madman open for their band- DON'T. He is a VERY hard act to follow, for sure. :twisted:

 

[YellowJacket]

Dragonforce is just tasteless generic power metal that happened to get into the limelight. Imo they sound nothing like Iron Maiden.

Haven't you watched the videos? It is obviously 'videogame' rock. They are catering to a specific audience, and it works!

The guys play bad live because they generally like to get drunk and make asses of themselves on stage. While they seem like a second rate knockoff when compared to most of the metal from a couple of decades ago, I'll take them over our good friends Fred Durst, Curt Cobain, Mark Tremonti, Billie Joe Armstrong, etc etc. Cross your fingers, hopefully Herman Li will inspire a whole new generation of guitar virtuosi!

 

[paintballnsk]

I don't have any favorites. Different tones fit different playing styles (pick attack, tapping, sweeps, etc).

But I like how these tones fit the following songs:

Rammstein - Du Hast
Killswitch Engage - Holy Diver
Zakk Wylde in Ozzy - No More Tears
Van Halen - Humans Being
Children of the Night - Dream Evil (before Gus G went to Roland...)

Tone's I don't like:
Slash from some GnR songs - Very thin and high ranged tracks. Great songs, crap tone.
Paul Gilbert - Probably one of my biggest guitar gods, and worst tones. Though the tones in the Superheroes albums aren't bad.
Godsmack and Drowning Pool - Putting a wah pedal on EVERYTHING is super lame and sounds terrible.
Kirk Hammett - Sounds thin and high pitched to me. Though I do really like Metallica.
The dislike list can go on forever haha...

 

[TOOLGUY]

. George Thurogood (Saw him at the Palace Theater in Albany NY in the early 80's and he just rocked. Just a great blues sound)
Man he rips. I don't think people think about his tone a lot (enough).
Saw him and the Destroyers at the
Philadelphia spectrum a few years ago.
Just awesome.
Good call!