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Favorite guitar tone
Hello Guys,
I was listening to Dark Side of the Moon today and was pretty blown away by David Gilmour's tone. The guy definitely has the touch. So who else do you think has "The Tone", and maybe list a few examples to illustrate.
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/12 13:27:14
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/12 13:42:25
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jaymesg1213
Danny Danzi
Bayoubill (honourably mentioned of course)
Beepster
Straummy
and about a dozen or so others on this forum.
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/12 13:51:39
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Depends on what I'm doing. I love Keith Richards' early 70s sound (Tele/Fender Twin/ Something small & dirty). Mark Knopfler's electric sound on Sultans of Swing is pretty slick. His acoustic sound (probably his National Resonator) on "Where do you think you're going" is killer for that dark, tense feel. Pretty much anything Prince played was dead-on as far as tone went... The multitude of 70s arena-rock bands did well with a simple Les Paul/ Marshall stack. Jimmy Page did just as well with a Telecaster and a Fender Champ.
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/12 13:54:38
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Steve Howe - so many great tones.
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/12 14:11:29
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☄ Helpfulby craigb 2016/08/12 15:34:28
Ladies and gentlemen, Boston.
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/12 14:36:58
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Robben Ford. Larry Carlton.
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/12 14:51:31
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Such a broad request, so much range. Brian May to Mark Knopfler to Les Paul to Jimi Hendrix. The only thing they have in common is the six strings.
Some favorites...
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/12 14:54:57
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Wayne Krantz has an amazing tone. His solo on Donald Fagan's "Brite Nightgown" is probably one of my favorite guitar tones of all time.
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/12 15:11:39
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☄ Helpfulby jamesg1213 2016/08/12 16:30:21
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/12 15:15:51
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Ai!!! I definitely don't have the time right now! As Dave said, so many tones...
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/12 15:46:04
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That's like asking if I like purty things. So many shapes, sizes, and demeanor's. I love me some purty things.
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/12 15:56:46
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☄ Helpfulby SteveStrummerUK 2016/08/12 16:17:30
Jesse Screed
That's like asking if I like purty things. So many shapes, sizes, and demeanor's. I love me some purty things.
Jesse Q. Screed
Well, yes..like what?
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/12 17:08:30
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/12 17:26:52
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Sheer class (and beautifully complemented by Billy Sheehan and Cozy Powell) ...
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/12 17:28:38
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/12 17:36:06
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ritchie blackmore's tone on the live album, "Made in Japan", "highway star"
sounds like a sonic mugging going on....
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/12 17:40:42
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sounds like the audio engineer was just getting the levels on everything,
and it's panned as it was on stage from the audience perspective.
keys on left, guitar on right, the sound really starts to come together about 2 minutes in, about the time the key solo starts.
you can hear blackmore tuning his guitar around 2:44....
he is still just getting settle in..
by 3:27, he's dialed in.
from there on out, it's brutal.
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/12 17:45:40
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i guess blackmore would be my early rock influence,
and that sound is all about the brutalz.
LOL
so, this would be another completely different tone than that one,
another favorite.
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/12 21:14:19
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Lots of great tones posted already. I am going to toss in one of that great single-coil clean tone that Hershel Yatovitz has on this Chris Isaak song:
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/13 02:28:28
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Some of my favorites (In addition to some already mentioned)
EVH (VH I and II)
George Lynch (Back for the Attack and Under Lock and Key)
Eric Johnson (Ah Via Musicom)
The Edge (The Joshua Tree)
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/13 03:13:56
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Hi, It was always kinda raw and crazy, but that guy with Big Brother, screaming alongside JJ in "Ball and Chain" ... is something else. Likewise, in SF, that guy named Garcia, also left behind an incredible list of material with some really pretty guitar work, including slide. Randy California (Spirit) also had some super nice stuff. Robert Fripp, has some amazing tones, and I think sometimes his better ones are in other folk's albums. One Eno's first 2 albums, and even on Peter Hammill's "H to He" album. Some of the thunderous stuff in Eno's albums are really incredible. SRV ... yeah ... he was special and then some, and probably the best guitarist I ever saw, although some would say that PF's Dave was better. I just find the flying and free-forming that SRV did, a lot more fun to listen to. Ax Genrich, who did several albums with the early Guru Guru. Not only he had the tone, he also had the noise to go with it, and I'm not sure there was another guitarist that could do some of the crazy stunts that he did ... everything you ever wanted to do on a guitar that was not considered music, Ax did live on stage and in the albums. Bill Nelson ... Be Bop Deluxe and solo. Some outstanding guitar stuff. Toni McPhee/Groundhogs ... and I specially love "Crosscut Saw" and "Black Diamond". Two totally excellent albums. Beautiful sound all along. Phil Manzanera, anyone?
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/13 06:34:00
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I would venture to say... ......(almost) any guitar being played has tone worthy of consideration. If you listen carefully, there's always something to appreciate about the tone. Always. As far as the guitarists we all know.... is it Santana's singing sustain or is it Billy Gibbon's gritty Texas blues, or is it my old 69 SG plugged into my 30 old Mesa? So many options.
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/13 06:41:30
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Richard Thompson - Calvery Cross Live. I love the distorted Strat tone contrasting with John Kirkpatrick's button accordion Dark moody magnificence. Edit - why cant I ever get the embedding to work??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8i61cG8Glk
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/13 07:55:05
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Moshkito
Phil Manzanera, anyone?
One of my favourites, and a seriously under-recognized guitarist. I'd just hate to try and figure out how he gets that sound!
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/13 11:28:43
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Edit - why cant I ever get the embedding to work???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8i61cG8Glk
Use the 'share' link Glyn, paste it between [tube][/tube] and delete the 's' from 'https'.
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/13 16:48:39
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I like all JB's tones here, especially the clean/dirty tremolo from 2:50.
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/13 16:49:21
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Re: Favorite guitar tone
2016/08/13 20:35:08
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I couldn't pick one. Maybe it's because I am a huge fan of Jimmy Page, but I love all kinds of tones, even bad ones, depending on the context. Something that's remarkably odd by itself can be just perfect in context. That's why I love electric guitar so much - there's so many ways to sculpt it and to place it in an arrangement.
That being said, I was recently re-listening to Def Leppard's Pyromania after years, and I was shocked to hear the guitars on that one. The drums may not have aged that well, but the guitar sounds that Mutt Lange captured on that album, especially the cleaner, slightly overdriven one, are stunning.
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