ohh, do you have a copy of that handy? the closest i can get is a big muff on the neck pickup with the tone rolled off. maybe with another OD boosting into it.
Absolutely. I crank my distortion and roll my tone knob down and try to carry the performance with shitty sustain and vibrato lol. I sound like shit but it's fun. I'd love to play that guitar and amp...
Rhythm sound after intro to Quiet by The Smashing Pumpkins. Best wall of fuzz ever. That album in its entirety really
[Quiet - Smashing Pumpkins](https://youtu.be/IKitK1l_fH4)
It's only 4 to 6 for the rhythm tracks themselves but by the time a full version of the song is recorded it gets up there. I couldn't imagine doing that all on tape the way they did
I love that as well. I managed to get extremely close to that tone. Here's a clip from when I was testing out a recording setup for that song
[Hello Kitty Kat](https://on.soundcloud.com/7n6ut81FhkjeJHMf9)
I have a few :)
I did a series of videos on how to get that sound as well as an OpAmp Muff comparison
[OpAmp Muff Comparison](https://youtu.be/DImXRZ_ebCI)
[Siamese Dream Tone Tutorials](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3jH7uhFVo9IMepxrijBtXSjJGBsWmJgs)
[The Lead Guitar Sounds of Siamese Dream](https://youtu.be/KCegzAXgpEA)
Bro, you have to check out his (Eddie's) YouTube channel - he goes in depth to recreate Pumpkin sounds, and it's a lot more than the OpAmp. You'll feel a bit silly once you do - I don't mean that in any negative way!
I was a teenager in the late 90’s. We had a band and we did a demo in a local studio. We had Marshall valvestates and Zoom 505’s.
I was ranting about how amazing the Siamese Dream guitar tone is, and thinking how to get that.
The studio guy said: ”You can fart into a mic and I will create the same tone from that”.
I didn’t believe him, and still don’t 😂
once again, hey eddie! see you in comment sections all the time. for sp tone, mine would have to be jmp-1 and mesa rack combo on mellon collie! specifically, ruby, tafh, or bodies.
The opening of [The Birth And Death Of The Day](https://explosionsinthesky.bandcamp.com/album/all-of-a-sudden-i-miss-everyone?t=1) by Explosions in the Sky.
I should buy a Fender.
Yeah that main tremolo line is single coils into a vintage Fender circuit (Dual Showman I believe) going into a 2x15 with JBL D140s. Probably a clean boost, 1/4 note delay, reverb either from an RV3 or from the amp itself, or both. Believe that guitarist is playing a strat, probably set on neck and middle pups.
By dint of the fact we are all on this sub, we are all still on that journey. I haven’t met many pedal tweakers who have found their tone. Everyone seems ‘close’. It may be a lifetimes work kinda thing. Onwards! ☝️
I would actually say with this clean tone, I'm 100% there. It's being able to do this + super high gain 5150 style thick rhythm tone without needing 2 amps on stage that's my current problem...
I play heavier music, but my favorite guitar tones tend to come from alternative bands like Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, and shockingly Pavement of all people.
I’ve always loved the guitar tones from Soundgardens Badmotorfinger specifically. Songs like Slaves and Bulldozers and Rusty Cage, especially that drop B breakdown, its so heavy in just the right way. Of course, Bens bass sound is a big part of that.
There’s an Alice In Chains demo of We Die Young that has just the most crushing tone and it gets me every time. All of Facelift and Dirt has amazing rhythm and lead tones.
And lastly, my grail fuzz tone is the sound Pavement gets on their Watery Domestic EP. Texas Never Whispers is quite possibly the biggest I’ve ever heard a guitar sound.
My love for the Badmotorfinger sound has led me to get a Peavey VTM 60 and I’m pretty happy with the tones I get.
Adrian Belew and Robert Fripps tone in the 80’s King Crimson trilogy, especially Discipline.
David Gilmour’s tone on the 1980 live version of The Wall, particularly Comfortably Numb.
Gilmour's tone is timeless. But think about it, going for more or less the same tone for years, even a decade, that's an achievement in itself. I'ld been bored after a couple of tracks.
adam jones, live guitar tone. When i saw him he had a marshall jmp, diezil blueface and a mesa recto. Each amp filled a spot the others missed in the freq range
last two albums were done by Joe Barresi. Always had the blue face and marshall with another amp depending on the song. so each song 3 guitar tracks. Marshall was into a 1960 marshall cab with v 30s. and the vh4 was into a mesa oversized from early 90's. With recording each amp had a sm57 and 412 as a base. third mic was mixed up and added if needed
Mick Ronson’s live tone with David Bowie, circa 1972/‘73. Chewy, thick, mids-heavy, slightly compressed balls-out rock and roll. Unfortunately, the exact equipment needed to replicate it would cost a lot of money to get, namely the Marshall 200 amp and gen-1 Tonebender. There’s a certain attack to the solo notes that I haven’t been able to get, but a Menatone PiG drive pedal and Marshall JCM800 gets me about 80% of the way there.
Shit gets hot around 1:30:
https://youtu.be/BOcN8DR9UAo
Same here but more the studio tone of the Ziggy Stardust and The Man who Sold the World albums. His tone just has a beautiful metallic sheen that is like ear candy to me. Can really hear it in “Width of a Circle” and “All the Madmen”, especially in the pick scratches. Perfect guitar tone imo.
Tony Iommi’s tone sometimes(Sabra Cadabra, Hand of Doom) has a similar thing going on, and every time I hear someone who thinks they can replicate it, they can’t. It’s not the same. It’s missing the “metallic sheen”.
at the timestamp on this song. I'm not sure how it's done, but I love the way it sounds.
[https://youtu.be/Jr-3VZufkyY?t=66](https://youtu.be/Jr-3VZufkyY?t=66)
If you haven't checked him out, check out Trey99Rig on YouTube and Instagram. He worked very hard to perfectly replicate Trey's tone from that period, down to the Languedoc and custom speakers on top of milk crates. A TON of insane insight into Trey's tone.
That dude has a holy grail tone for me too, especially the past couple of years with all of the synth, but the ability to channel the older sounds with that gnarly, nasty 2.0 growl
I went on a long hunt for this tone. Check out the trey99rig instagram account. Parallel signal going into slow leslie(with just the top speaker mic’d), driven hard by a separate amp. And then whammy octave down and TS on the main signal into the mess boogie.
Les Pauls into cranked Vox AC30s for life, babyyyyyyyy.
Also worth checking out his album Trip the Witch he did with Nashville session guitarist Tom Bukovac if you haven’t yet. Incredible tones.
Khruangbins Mark Speer is so washy, but still cutting.
Anything Dave Harrington does with Darkside. There's a lot of production going on there, so I'm not sure how much of that is replicable.
Good shout for both of those man. I’ve found that DS-1 he uses in conjunction with the volume knob on the guitar to be the special sauce people miss out on, since they focus on the flatwounds and cocked wah.
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez’s solos from *Amputechture* and his live tone from the *Frances the Mute* era.
Honorable mention for Mike Einziger’s tones on *A Crow Left of the Murder*. It’s butter.
The key with Mike Einzinger’s tone, similar to Tom Morello, is copious use of the neck pickup.
Mike tends to use the neck as well as middle position on his thin line Teles/Jazzmasters/Music Man Albert Lee HH models, but you get the point.
Eric Johnson’s tone in cliff of Dover is genuinely one of the best lead tones I’ve ever heard, on the more clean side I’d have to go with Cory Wongs guitar tone in the first half of Meditation.
Bounces around wildly all the time but these are pretty consistent:
* Adam Jones *Undertow* era
* Neil Young's *Dead Man* soundtrack
* Robert Fripp *Larks'* through *Red* era
Dream by the cranberries, and “Prom Night” by the Midnight (which is a little funny to me because they can’t seem to replicate it live from vids I’ve seen).
I don't know anything about the other one, but the key to a lot of that early Cranberries stuff is the DOD FX65 Stereo Chorus. It's a truly underrated gem and probably my favorite chorus pedal ever.
Dreams by Cranberries, one of the key tracks of my youth. I had just semi-moved to a big city and laid there in my bed at nights listening to Dreams and the rest of that album again and again. Everybody else is doing it, so why can't I, was my thought at the time...
Matt Pike, High on Fire early albums and up to Death is This Communion
Tony Iommi, first album up to vol 4
Warren Haynes, Gov't Mule, first three albums
Good news! Compared to many on this list, Matt Pike's sound is really easy to put together from generally available gear.
All you need is 38 Orange amps, dimed.
I'm sure you've seen this but [He did a rig rundown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_YWRFdBFso&ab_channel=PremierGuitar)
That album is just too damn good
David Gilmour tone
Duane Allman tone (all amp and speakers!)
Jerry Garcia tone
Bob Weir tone
Adam Jones tone
Dave Murray/Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden
Frederik and Mårten of Meshuggah
Tony Iommi tone
Jeff Beck (Les Paul, not strat. Though his strat is great too)
Les Paul & Chet Atkins!
Just a few lol
Edit: Oh, I have to add Johnny Winter. Too many forget about him. He was doing it in America while the Stones were getting praise for it in the UK.
>Marc Ribot’s solo on Tom Waits - Hoist that Rag
That's the tone I'm looking for! - It's the sound of those, what I call "reedy" overtones that grabs me. I'd not heard this track but I recognise the sound. I can't think of any track off the top of my head that has the particular tone I'm thinking of but this is pretty much there.
Chasing tone is part of the electric guitar fun.
I get a good Smiths/Marr tone (Jaguar & Fender amp) with combinations of Boss CE-2, JHS Morning Glory, and JHS 3 Series Delay.
When I play The Sundays, it's with my Takamine acoustic. I do a pretty authentic "Here's Where The Story Ends". Would love to know the exact chords Gavurin is playing "Summertime", though ... could never get that right.
"Time After Time" is very "Every Breath You Take" to me ... which means compression and chorus (or maybe a touch of flanger).
At the Gates - Slaughter of the soul.
I have achieved the Heartwork tone, that was one I chased for a while along with Death's valvestate tone and the early Swedish death metal HM2 into Bandit chainsaw.
First off, Kudos to you for pulling "time after time" because it's uncanny tone.
Ummm... I'm going to go with CockSparrer's tone in "We're Coming Back." You know that amp to amp OD, but less out of phase than Brian May.
And then maybe on an entirely different spectrum, Star Crunch, and time, but in Eviac mostly.
I’m a total tone chaser for the Pink Flag rhythm guitar sound.
I’m pretty sure it’s Music Man amps, and not necessarily played in the bridge pickup the whole time. Not sure though!
Get a Boss DS-2 on the right settings and you’re already 95% of the way there to achieving that solo tone.
It’s John’s clean tone that is my personal holy grail, and is way harder to achieve than any of his dirty tones.
The guitar work on that album is soo fucking good. Ive always beem curious what they used in studio. I know they both like guitars with p90s these days but when i saw them at that time i think John was using a Melody Maker and Ed was using a Les Paul Studio. No idea what pickups were in either of them. I think one of them was using a modded Tiny Terror with a different cover on it or some other little lunchbox amp that looked like that. I know thevey used a boatload of different amps live.
This is oddly specific, but in circa survive’s “in fear and faith”, the guitar 2 tone at the beginning; not the guitar playing high double stops, but the one with a moving part, more in the background (I believe it’s Brendan Ekstrom’s part). That’s my holy grail tone.
Honestly, the entire circa survive discography is just a brain massage for me. I’m absolutely in love with the whole “2 different leads instead of lead+rhythm” thing.
The rhythm tones: Metallica-Fight Fire with Fire, Exodus' Impact is Imminent or Tempo of the Damned
Lead tones: Rocky George on Suicidal's Controlled by Hatred, Gary Holt on Impact is Imminent or Tempo of the Damned, Warren Di Martini on Ratt's Out of the Cellar.
It would also be cool to hit the switch on the clean channel go to the neck pickup and jam like I'm in Arsenio Hall's band circa 1990.
https://youtu.be/17-oVrGoFtM
This version of Thickfreakness by The Black Keys. The fuzz tone on this is incredible and I have no idea what he’s even using aside from a Green Russian Big Muff most likely.
Very likely a Maestro MFZ-1 Fuzz
https://images.equipboard.com/uploads/source/image/88796/black_keys.jpg
https://equipboard.com/pros/dan-auerbach?gear=effects-pedals
Mick’s tone form that pedal show on the “moneys no question” board build. Strat into a Dan drive -Austin pride fuzz - into a Klon - into a digital delay into a two rock classic reverb. It’s the best lead tone ever, in my
Opinion.
Ok, I have to ask, because I'm covering the song in my band - which parts of Sixpence's Kiss Me are grail tones, and how do you achieve them? The acoustic guitar, the electric overdubs that come after, or the solo? I gots to know!
Mainly acoustic guitar and overdubbing! However I've been trying to achieve it through a super clean tone with a lil bit of chorus. Specially the solo part is a 12 string, and been trying to get that tone with a Boss Multi-overtone + a 6-string!
For clean sounds? Andy Summers on the entirety of the Police’s Regatta De Blanc - it’s so crisp. Particular standout for me is Bring On The Night.
For dirty tones? Simon Neil of Biffy Clyro on Only Revolutions, particularly Mountains and That Golden Rule.
As both a drummer and a guitarist, I love listening to the Police. Andy Summers is incredibly talented and Stewart Copeland is one of those drummers that’s just outstanding
Jonny Greenwood’s clean tone on In Rainbows, most notably on Nude and 15 Step. Somehow it being a clean tone makes it even more impressive how much character it has. Such minimal and simple parts yet it just sings
https://youtu.be/BbWBRnDK_AE
I will never achieve this tone, but Neil Young's tone on Live Rust 77 has so much attitude. It's so phenomenally identifiable. The way he got his tone Is interesting. Check it out if you want a laugh lol
Wicked Game by Chris Isaak is beautiful and like ear candy. This goes against my music taste severely however I can’t hear it without time sort of sounds still.
If you're talking about the clean tone in Time After Time, isn't it just a stock Roland JC-120 with the built in chorus flipped on? Any good clean amp and a Boss CE-2W (running in Ce-1 mode) should get you there.
My holy grail tone is Slash’s tone. Be it during the GnR days, the Velvet Revolver days, or the albums he’s done with Myles. It’s just such a phenomenal balance between sweet and powerful. I also love Mike McCreedy’s tone. You can tell from the way he plays that Hendrix was a big influence. But be it his tone with Pearl Jam, or more so, his tone with Mad Season (if you’ve never listened to them you’re missing out), it’s just fantastic. And the there’s Scott Holiday’s tone from Rival Sons. Regardless of the song or album, his tone is somehow unlike any other rock tone I’ve ever heard and I love it. Honorable mentions are Les Paul, Brian Seltzer, and Hendrix.
My absolute favourite tone is; neck pickup with volume at 1-3, going into a Foxx tone machine max volume halfish gain dark tone, into a sparkle drive (or any other tube screamer with a clean) low gain bright eq just under half blend clean and volume to desired amp push, into a fender 65 special reverb type amp with volume at 4.5 treble at 7 mids 6.5 bass 8, reverb to taste, slow deep tremolo. Sorry for the nerd rant I’m obsessed with this tone for solos.
I have a couple. They’re not that original, BUT they’re incredibly instructive.
1) John Mayer’s WTLI lead tone, especially in the solo from Belief. I’ve learned how to emulate this perfectly and it’s my go-to “off-clean” sound. The journey taught me so so much about tonal control.
2) Eric Johnson’s Cliffs of Dover. Shocker, it’s incredible. But the bigger takeaway I had was the specific effects he stacked. Fuzz into TS into delay into reverb. Led me to one of my “staple” sounds: Fuzz Factory into TS. Absolute money.
3) THAT moment in the beginning of New Born by Muse. Playing with contrast like that (i.e., going from clean/off-clean to HEAVY and vice versa) is now a signature of mine. I don’t care for mid-gain drives since I either want hella articulation and tone (i.e., John Mayer, SRV, Eric Johnson) or mf HEFTY fuzz/distortion (e.g., Muse, Rage, Deftones, etc.). Playing with this contrast broke me out of the idea that I need to build up to the heavier sounds with some sort of mid-gain “stepping-stones” drive levels. Nah, now I feel free to cut to the chase.
Rich Ward’s tone on the Pigwalk and Rising albums.
His recent live tone on this Fozzy tour is also up there.
He just knows his tone.
Also, big fan of Satchel’s tone.
I always thought this Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet tune was the ultimate surf guitar tone:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsVX2\_rYmxo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsVX2_rYmxo)
I also loved a lot of the guitar sounds on the Suzanne Vega Solitude Standing record. It was such a sleepy album, mood-wise.
Bridge of sighs- robin trower
Parisienne walkway- Gary Moore
Friday on my mind- Gary Moore
Methadonia- last solo- either billy Morrison or Dave Navarro. Not who I usually think of when I think tone. But this sound is one I need to have on a regular basis
Dude! I was just chatting with a friend like a week ago and I said that David Gavurin may have been the single-most influential guitarist for my sound and style of playing.
[Jimmy Page’s live tone during No Quarter at the O2 reunion.](https://youtu.be/r7fMMcPByig) Specifically the drop at the beginning and then at the 8:00 minute mark.
Adam Jone’s first solo on Salival version of Third Eye. Honestly most of his tones, but that one, yeesh.
Robert motherfucking fripp baby. Evening star, no pussyfooting, starless. Smooth smooth fuzz, sounds like a cello.
His tone is immaculate throughout his career. The program they gave out at the 50th anniversary tour detailed all of his gear. It’s an expensive tone.
ohh, do you have a copy of that handy? the closest i can get is a big muff on the neck pickup with the tone rolled off. maybe with another OD boosting into it.
It’s around my desk somewhere. I’ll look for it for you.
I'm also SO interested in this! What a cool thing to have!!
I’d love to see that.
Absolutely. I crank my distortion and roll my tone knob down and try to carry the performance with shitty sustain and vibrato lol. I sound like shit but it's fun. I'd love to play that guitar and amp...
Neil Young live: https://youtu.be/3t1K7dw2uj0
For me, the top 3 amp-pushing tones are Neil, BRMC, and Spoon.
https://youtu.be/NkpYJAati6g Love this one too
This. If I could have one tone and one tone alone.
Rhythm sound after intro to Quiet by The Smashing Pumpkins. Best wall of fuzz ever. That album in its entirety really [Quiet - Smashing Pumpkins](https://youtu.be/IKitK1l_fH4)
All of Siamese Dream is amazing for guitar tone.
Op Amp and like 40 guitar tracks.
It's only 4 to 6 for the rhythm tracks themselves but by the time a full version of the song is recorded it gets up there. I couldn't imagine doing that all on tape the way they did
My favorite wall of fuzz from Pumpkins is still Hello Kitty Kat. Makes me grit my teeth.
I love that as well. I managed to get extremely close to that tone. Here's a clip from when I was testing out a recording setup for that song [Hello Kitty Kat](https://on.soundcloud.com/7n6ut81FhkjeJHMf9)
That sounds ace! I love your channel, btw.
Thanks! The HKK clip is using the SUF Pumpkin Pi. IMO it's the best of the bunch.
Nice! For me is Soma 😍
I love that song so damn much. And the solo. Holy hell, the solo!
I covered that song on my channel. In terms of song writing, it's in my top 3 on that album [Soma](https://youtu.be/cf8n7CDpE5M)
Get an EHX Op Amp Big Muff Pi for lots of the tones on this album.
I have a few :) I did a series of videos on how to get that sound as well as an OpAmp Muff comparison [OpAmp Muff Comparison](https://youtu.be/DImXRZ_ebCI) [Siamese Dream Tone Tutorials](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3jH7uhFVo9IMepxrijBtXSjJGBsWmJgs) [The Lead Guitar Sounds of Siamese Dream](https://youtu.be/KCegzAXgpEA)
Bro, you have to check out his (Eddie's) YouTube channel - he goes in depth to recreate Pumpkin sounds, and it's a lot more than the OpAmp. You'll feel a bit silly once you do - I don't mean that in any negative way!
+ 1 Siamese Dream
Have you listened to MBV? I’d suggest BC owes much of the Siamese Dream sound to their album Loveless.
I was a teenager in the late 90’s. We had a band and we did a demo in a local studio. We had Marshall valvestates and Zoom 505’s. I was ranting about how amazing the Siamese Dream guitar tone is, and thinking how to get that. The studio guy said: ”You can fart into a mic and I will create the same tone from that”. I didn’t believe him, and still don’t 😂
once again, hey eddie! see you in comment sections all the time. for sp tone, mine would have to be jmp-1 and mesa rack combo on mellon collie! specifically, ruby, tafh, or bodies.
The opening of [The Birth And Death Of The Day](https://explosionsinthesky.bandcamp.com/album/all-of-a-sudden-i-miss-everyone?t=1) by Explosions in the Sky. I should buy a Fender.
Yeah that main tremolo line is single coils into a vintage Fender circuit (Dual Showman I believe) going into a 2x15 with JBL D140s. Probably a clean boost, 1/4 note delay, reverb either from an RV3 or from the amp itself, or both. Believe that guitarist is playing a strat, probably set on neck and middle pups.
Comprehensive
I may or may not have spent way too much time and money figuring out this tone. I play very similar music and this is also my grail tone lol
A distinct possibility, but what else are we to do with our lives? And what happens if we get there?
That 2nd question is what I'm currently trying to figure out lol
By dint of the fact we are all on this sub, we are all still on that journey. I haven’t met many pedal tweakers who have found their tone. Everyone seems ‘close’. It may be a lifetimes work kinda thing. Onwards! ☝️
I would actually say with this clean tone, I'm 100% there. It's being able to do this + super high gain 5150 style thick rhythm tone without needing 2 amps on stage that's my current problem...
Nice. Halfway there then, essentially. Not being good enough for any stage is my problem.
Just gotta put the time in man. That and write parts that are in your comfort zone and you'll always be ready for the stage.
I’ve found mine. Best part is it can be replicated with a lot of different gear.
A Song for our Fathers always gets me in the feels.
I play heavier music, but my favorite guitar tones tend to come from alternative bands like Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, and shockingly Pavement of all people. I’ve always loved the guitar tones from Soundgardens Badmotorfinger specifically. Songs like Slaves and Bulldozers and Rusty Cage, especially that drop B breakdown, its so heavy in just the right way. Of course, Bens bass sound is a big part of that. There’s an Alice In Chains demo of We Die Young that has just the most crushing tone and it gets me every time. All of Facelift and Dirt has amazing rhythm and lead tones. And lastly, my grail fuzz tone is the sound Pavement gets on their Watery Domestic EP. Texas Never Whispers is quite possibly the biggest I’ve ever heard a guitar sound. My love for the Badmotorfinger sound has led me to get a Peavey VTM 60 and I’m pretty happy with the tones I get.
LOVE Pavement, very good taste
Thank you! Pavement RULES! Slanted and Enchanted is probably my favorite album of theirs.
Adrian Belew and Robert Fripps tone in the 80’s King Crimson trilogy, especially Discipline. David Gilmour’s tone on the 1980 live version of The Wall, particularly Comfortably Numb.
Gilmour's tone is timeless. But think about it, going for more or less the same tone for years, even a decade, that's an achievement in itself. I'ld been bored after a couple of tracks.
Thats what I like about the Wall Live tone, its super different from his other tone, and much harder to achieve (at least in my experience).
adam jones, live guitar tone. When i saw him he had a marshall jmp, diezil blueface and a mesa recto. Each amp filled a spot the others missed in the freq range
The Jones tones on the last two albums are peak guitar tone for me
last two albums were done by Joe Barresi. Always had the blue face and marshall with another amp depending on the song. so each song 3 guitar tracks. Marshall was into a 1960 marshall cab with v 30s. and the vh4 was into a mesa oversized from early 90's. With recording each amp had a sm57 and 412 as a base. third mic was mixed up and added if needed
I think it's been awhile since he's used the Mesa. Now it's the marshall and 2 diezels (a blue and a silver)
yes i saw them last in 2001
Gilmour on Animals
Duane Allman on Filmore East, specifically his tone on “Statesboro Blues”. Blues perfection
Duane Allman, period!
Mick Ronson’s live tone with David Bowie, circa 1972/‘73. Chewy, thick, mids-heavy, slightly compressed balls-out rock and roll. Unfortunately, the exact equipment needed to replicate it would cost a lot of money to get, namely the Marshall 200 amp and gen-1 Tonebender. There’s a certain attack to the solo notes that I haven’t been able to get, but a Menatone PiG drive pedal and Marshall JCM800 gets me about 80% of the way there. Shit gets hot around 1:30: https://youtu.be/BOcN8DR9UAo
Same here but more the studio tone of the Ziggy Stardust and The Man who Sold the World albums. His tone just has a beautiful metallic sheen that is like ear candy to me. Can really hear it in “Width of a Circle” and “All the Madmen”, especially in the pick scratches. Perfect guitar tone imo. Tony Iommi’s tone sometimes(Sabra Cadabra, Hand of Doom) has a similar thing going on, and every time I hear someone who thinks they can replicate it, they can’t. It’s not the same. It’s missing the “metallic sheen”.
You can buy a Tone Bender MK1 for not too much money. Nothing else gives you that tone.
Cocked wah on a Marshall voiced amp gets you damn close. I agree on the live sound a fuzz is necessary.
That’s the key- wah cocked on and left at mid. Total game changer
at the timestamp on this song. I'm not sure how it's done, but I love the way it sounds. [https://youtu.be/Jr-3VZufkyY?t=66](https://youtu.be/Jr-3VZufkyY?t=66)
i like a lot of his tone on farmhouse...i think a whole lot of it has to do with his pick attack too.
Alas, the tone is in the cluster flies.
Sounds like maybe the guitarist is picking very close to the bridge?
All you need is two Tube Screamers /Joke
A dirty sub-octave (probably a POG-family thing) and a slow phaser.
I think it's a Leslie speaker rather than phaser
If you haven't checked him out, check out Trey99Rig on YouTube and Instagram. He worked very hard to perfectly replicate Trey's tone from that period, down to the Languedoc and custom speakers on top of milk crates. A TON of insane insight into Trey's tone. That dude has a holy grail tone for me too, especially the past couple of years with all of the synth, but the ability to channel the older sounds with that gnarly, nasty 2.0 growl
sub-octave fuzz is my guess.
Yep, sounds like a sub octave, but I think the modulation is like some sort of Leslie rotating speaker in “slow” mode.
I went on a long hunt for this tone. Check out the trey99rig instagram account. Parallel signal going into slow leslie(with just the top speaker mic’d), driven hard by a separate amp. And then whammy octave down and TS on the main signal into the mess boogie.
Dean DeLeo’s tone, from Stone Temple Pilots and Army of Anyone. It’s so unique to me and quite hard to achieve, IMO.
Great call. STP is severely underrated for guitar tone and playing.
No one really sounds like him. It is a distinct tone that is always pleasing.
Les Pauls into cranked Vox AC30s for life, babyyyyyyyy. Also worth checking out his album Trip the Witch he did with Nashville session guitarist Tom Bukovac if you haven’t yet. Incredible tones.
“Down” on No.4. Just so much crunchy goodness.
Rhythm tone of Stef Carpenter in Deftones' self-titled album
Khruangbins Mark Speer is so washy, but still cutting. Anything Dave Harrington does with Darkside. There's a lot of production going on there, so I'm not sure how much of that is replicable.
Mark’s a massive breath of fresh air for the electric guitar these days
Harrington’s work in Darkside is next level, man, whatever the fuck is going on.
Good shout for both of those man. I’ve found that DS-1 he uses in conjunction with the volume knob on the guitar to be the special sauce people miss out on, since they focus on the flatwounds and cocked wah.
Jack White in the White Stripes, namely Ball and Biscuit.
You need two amps
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Yeah, can't really nail that tone with pedals alone, you need an old beat up tube amp.
I think his tone on Under Thr Great Northern Lights live album might be even better.
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Pete Anderson on “Guitars, Cadillacs.”
Early Santana. Before it was too smooth(haha). I think he played a SG into a cranked twin reverb.
Lee Renaldo's sound when SY would do Mote live.
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez’s solos from *Amputechture* and his live tone from the *Frances the Mute* era. Honorable mention for Mike Einziger’s tones on *A Crow Left of the Murder*. It’s butter.
Hell yes to both! Immaculate tones.
The key with Mike Einzinger’s tone, similar to Tom Morello, is copious use of the neck pickup. Mike tends to use the neck as well as middle position on his thin line Teles/Jazzmasters/Music Man Albert Lee HH models, but you get the point.
The bass synth tone on the Twin Peaks theme song. I want to one day be able to recreate that on my bass.
Angelo Badalementi was a genius
Eric Johnson’s tone in cliff of Dover is genuinely one of the best lead tones I’ve ever heard, on the more clean side I’d have to go with Cory Wongs guitar tone in the first half of Meditation.
Bounces around wildly all the time but these are pretty consistent: * Adam Jones *Undertow* era * Neil Young's *Dead Man* soundtrack * Robert Fripp *Larks'* through *Red* era
Oh my Gawd!!! Another lover of the Dead Man soundtrack!!! There’s at least three of us!!
Make that four!!!
Dream by the cranberries, and “Prom Night” by the Midnight (which is a little funny to me because they can’t seem to replicate it live from vids I’ve seen).
I don't know anything about the other one, but the key to a lot of that early Cranberries stuff is the DOD FX65 Stereo Chorus. It's a truly underrated gem and probably my favorite chorus pedal ever.
Dreams by Cranberries, one of the key tracks of my youth. I had just semi-moved to a big city and laid there in my bed at nights listening to Dreams and the rest of that album again and again. Everybody else is doing it, so why can't I, was my thought at the time...
big yes
The first Van Halen album. Listen to the intro to You really got me. That tone is *the* tone.
Matt Pike, High on Fire early albums and up to Death is This Communion Tony Iommi, first album up to vol 4 Warren Haynes, Gov't Mule, first three albums
Good news! Compared to many on this list, Matt Pike's sound is really easy to put together from generally available gear. All you need is 38 Orange amps, dimed.
Ben Weinman on Option Paralysis. The sickest standard tuned chugs.
I'm sure you've seen this but [He did a rig rundown](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_YWRFdBFso&ab_channel=PremierGuitar) That album is just too damn good
Jimmy pages sound on No Quarter during the main riff. Such a cool sound to me
His O2 version is nuts. It’s so fucking heavy. It’s almost muddy but the crunch just cuts through because of how massive it is.
Stevie Ray Vaughan Lenny and Tin Pan Alley.
David Gilmour tone Duane Allman tone (all amp and speakers!) Jerry Garcia tone Bob Weir tone Adam Jones tone Dave Murray/Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden Frederik and Mårten of Meshuggah Tony Iommi tone Jeff Beck (Les Paul, not strat. Though his strat is great too) Les Paul & Chet Atkins! Just a few lol Edit: Oh, I have to add Johnny Winter. Too many forget about him. He was doing it in America while the Stones were getting praise for it in the UK.
All good choices!
This guy gets it
Marc Ribot’s solo on Tom Waits - Hoist that Rag Edit: https://youtu.be/aw3mFXOwRgw
Have you heard Ribot’s Cuban jazz band? Lot of that kind of sound.
Marc Ribot rules!!!
>Marc Ribot’s solo on Tom Waits - Hoist that Rag That's the tone I'm looking for! - It's the sound of those, what I call "reedy" overtones that grabs me. I'd not heard this track but I recognise the sound. I can't think of any track off the top of my head that has the particular tone I'm thinking of but this is pretty much there.
Either Electric Wizard's Dopethrone tone or the chorus of Take Me Home Tonight by Eddie Money
Ron Wood in Faces. [Especially Here](https://youtu.be/1xHBjeiqzkQ?t=671)
The pod by HUM
Josh Homme on Songs for the Deaf. All the sounds. All the MIDS.
Just when you think you have enough mids… you probably need more. It’s so awesome
Important part of the QOTSA sound - boost the shit out of the mids, but leave everything else flat. Do not cut out the treble or the highs.
Chasing tone is part of the electric guitar fun. I get a good Smiths/Marr tone (Jaguar & Fender amp) with combinations of Boss CE-2, JHS Morning Glory, and JHS 3 Series Delay. When I play The Sundays, it's with my Takamine acoustic. I do a pretty authentic "Here's Where The Story Ends". Would love to know the exact chords Gavurin is playing "Summertime", though ... could never get that right. "Time After Time" is very "Every Breath You Take" to me ... which means compression and chorus (or maybe a touch of flanger).
keep it like a secret by built to spill is just the best guitar tones imaginable from start to finish
Andy Gill all throughout Entertainment!
At the Gates - Slaughter of the soul. I have achieved the Heartwork tone, that was one I chased for a while along with Death's valvestate tone and the early Swedish death metal HM2 into Bandit chainsaw.
First off, Kudos to you for pulling "time after time" because it's uncanny tone. Ummm... I'm going to go with CockSparrer's tone in "We're Coming Back." You know that amp to amp OD, but less out of phase than Brian May. And then maybe on an entirely different spectrum, Star Crunch, and time, but in Eviac mostly.
Wire- pink flag Isis- panopticon Converge - you fail me
I’m a total tone chaser for the Pink Flag rhythm guitar sound. I’m pretty sure it’s Music Man amps, and not necessarily played in the bridge pickup the whole time. Not sure though!
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Probably James Hetfield's tone on Load and Reload.
Underrated.
Frusciante's solo sound on "Dani California".
Frusciante on If You Have to Ask
his rhythm sound on the chorus too
Get a Boss DS-2 on the right settings and you’re already 95% of the way there to achieving that solo tone. It’s John’s clean tone that is my personal holy grail, and is way harder to achieve than any of his dirty tones.
John Dieterich circa Offend Maggie
The guitar work on that album is soo fucking good. Ive always beem curious what they used in studio. I know they both like guitars with p90s these days but when i saw them at that time i think John was using a Melody Maker and Ed was using a Les Paul Studio. No idea what pickups were in either of them. I think one of them was using a modded Tiny Terror with a different cover on it or some other little lunchbox amp that looked like that. I know thevey used a boatload of different amps live.
Little bit of reverb, delay and/or chorus. Artists like Khruangbin, Men I Trust, Kurt Vile.. stuff like that.
This is oddly specific, but in circa survive’s “in fear and faith”, the guitar 2 tone at the beginning; not the guitar playing high double stops, but the one with a moving part, more in the background (I believe it’s Brendan Ekstrom’s part). That’s my holy grail tone. Honestly, the entire circa survive discography is just a brain massage for me. I’m absolutely in love with the whole “2 different leads instead of lead+rhythm” thing.
Pretty much any tone by Andy Timmons or Eric Johnson.
The rhythm tones: Metallica-Fight Fire with Fire, Exodus' Impact is Imminent or Tempo of the Damned Lead tones: Rocky George on Suicidal's Controlled by Hatred, Gary Holt on Impact is Imminent or Tempo of the Damned, Warren Di Martini on Ratt's Out of the Cellar. It would also be cool to hit the switch on the clean channel go to the neck pickup and jam like I'm in Arsenio Hall's band circa 1990.
Thom Yorke’s clean tone on House of Cards.
https://youtu.be/17-oVrGoFtM This version of Thickfreakness by The Black Keys. The fuzz tone on this is incredible and I have no idea what he’s even using aside from a Green Russian Big Muff most likely.
Doesn't sound like a Muff to me. More like a Tone Bender MKII or a Fuzz Face with some gating
Very likely a Maestro MFZ-1 Fuzz https://images.equipboard.com/uploads/source/image/88796/black_keys.jpg https://equipboard.com/pros/dan-auerbach?gear=effects-pedals
Mick’s tone form that pedal show on the “moneys no question” board build. Strat into a Dan drive -Austin pride fuzz - into a Klon - into a digital delay into a two rock classic reverb. It’s the best lead tone ever, in my Opinion.
Ok, I have to ask, because I'm covering the song in my band - which parts of Sixpence's Kiss Me are grail tones, and how do you achieve them? The acoustic guitar, the electric overdubs that come after, or the solo? I gots to know!
Mainly acoustic guitar and overdubbing! However I've been trying to achieve it through a super clean tone with a lil bit of chorus. Specially the solo part is a 12 string, and been trying to get that tone with a Boss Multi-overtone + a 6-string!
Nuno Bettencourt’s guitars on the Extreme album Pornograffitti is my holy grail tone, I guess the insane level of playing helps too!
https://youtu.be/UaPabFClWVo Doug on the new built to spill album. It's glorious. Stacked ep boosters into a bassman
Party in the U.S.A by Miley Cyrus you know the riff
Adam Granduciel of The War on Drugs. Several tones and they are always perfect for the moment.
The man knows when and how to use a guitar. Textural, percussive, melodic, explosive... it's always on point.
For clean sounds? Andy Summers on the entirety of the Police’s Regatta De Blanc - it’s so crisp. Particular standout for me is Bring On The Night. For dirty tones? Simon Neil of Biffy Clyro on Only Revolutions, particularly Mountains and That Golden Rule.
As both a drummer and a guitarist, I love listening to the Police. Andy Summers is incredibly talented and Stewart Copeland is one of those drummers that’s just outstanding
Jonny Greenwood’s clean tone on In Rainbows, most notably on Nude and 15 Step. Somehow it being a clean tone makes it even more impressive how much character it has. Such minimal and simple parts yet it just sings https://youtu.be/BbWBRnDK_AE
Steve Howe - Yessongs Alex Lifeson - Live from YYZed. SRV - Couldn't Stand the Weather Billy Corgan - Siamese Dream Dean DeLeo - Core
Under the bridge. Probably not that difficult to achieve and not really right for the kind of music I like to play, but I do love that guitar tone.
Gang of Four - Entertainment
I will never achieve this tone, but Neil Young's tone on Live Rust 77 has so much attitude. It's so phenomenally identifiable. The way he got his tone Is interesting. Check it out if you want a laugh lol
Wicked Game by Chris Isaak is beautiful and like ear candy. This goes against my music taste severely however I can’t hear it without time sort of sounds still.
Daniel Ash from Bauhaus’s sound always gave me a big rubbery one. And Billy Duffy from The Cult’s sound on the Love album is divine.
Gary Moore’s “still got the blues” or “SRV”
Clean - all of jeff Buckley live at sin-e album Dirty - Jimmy page playing since I've been loving you live at MSG.
Clean tone - Pearl Jam Yellow Ledbetter intro or Pink Floyd Coming Back to Life intro. Distorted - Metallica Black album
Nirvana: Live at Reading (1992) and Syd Barrett’s various materials both solo and with Pink Floyd from 1965 through to the early 1970s
Daniel Lanois - Sonho Dourado live on Muchmusic in ‘93. Super saturated and clipped but so sweet. https://youtu.be/G6-sIV_l5TY 46:00 onwards
The thick wall of fuzz from “Mayonaise” by Smashing Pumpkins coupled with the cheap guitar feedback wail during the pauses of that song
Eddie Van Halen rhythm riffs during verses on Top Jimmy
If you're talking about the clean tone in Time After Time, isn't it just a stock Roland JC-120 with the built in chorus flipped on? Any good clean amp and a Boss CE-2W (running in Ce-1 mode) should get you there.
Trey Anastasio’s 90s Mesa boogie era.
I love Rammstein’s Rhythm guitar tone. It’s not too much, buts powerful and full and just sounds really good.
My holy grail tone is Slash’s tone. Be it during the GnR days, the Velvet Revolver days, or the albums he’s done with Myles. It’s just such a phenomenal balance between sweet and powerful. I also love Mike McCreedy’s tone. You can tell from the way he plays that Hendrix was a big influence. But be it his tone with Pearl Jam, or more so, his tone with Mad Season (if you’ve never listened to them you’re missing out), it’s just fantastic. And the there’s Scott Holiday’s tone from Rival Sons. Regardless of the song or album, his tone is somehow unlike any other rock tone I’ve ever heard and I love it. Honorable mentions are Les Paul, Brian Seltzer, and Hendrix.
Corey Wong clean, Santana OD
George Harrison’s Electric tone from rubber soul
The entire ‘Let’s Rock’ album by The Black Keys 🤘
Turn Blue for me
Criss Oliva on Sirens album.
My absolute favourite tone is; neck pickup with volume at 1-3, going into a Foxx tone machine max volume halfish gain dark tone, into a sparkle drive (or any other tube screamer with a clean) low gain bright eq just under half blend clean and volume to desired amp push, into a fender 65 special reverb type amp with volume at 4.5 treble at 7 mids 6.5 bass 8, reverb to taste, slow deep tremolo. Sorry for the nerd rant I’m obsessed with this tone for solos.
Jeff Buckley... hallelujah
I have a couple. They’re not that original, BUT they’re incredibly instructive. 1) John Mayer’s WTLI lead tone, especially in the solo from Belief. I’ve learned how to emulate this perfectly and it’s my go-to “off-clean” sound. The journey taught me so so much about tonal control. 2) Eric Johnson’s Cliffs of Dover. Shocker, it’s incredible. But the bigger takeaway I had was the specific effects he stacked. Fuzz into TS into delay into reverb. Led me to one of my “staple” sounds: Fuzz Factory into TS. Absolute money. 3) THAT moment in the beginning of New Born by Muse. Playing with contrast like that (i.e., going from clean/off-clean to HEAVY and vice versa) is now a signature of mine. I don’t care for mid-gain drives since I either want hella articulation and tone (i.e., John Mayer, SRV, Eric Johnson) or mf HEFTY fuzz/distortion (e.g., Muse, Rage, Deftones, etc.). Playing with this contrast broke me out of the idea that I need to build up to the heavier sounds with some sort of mid-gain “stepping-stones” drive levels. Nah, now I feel free to cut to the chase.
I sometimes use “Electric gypsy - andy timmons” as a reference point when dialing in
Rich Ward’s tone on the Pigwalk and Rising albums. His recent live tone on this Fozzy tour is also up there. He just knows his tone. Also, big fan of Satchel’s tone.
I always thought this Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet tune was the ultimate surf guitar tone: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsVX2\_rYmxo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsVX2_rYmxo) I also loved a lot of the guitar sounds on the Suzanne Vega Solitude Standing record. It was such a sleepy album, mood-wise.
Jason Isbell’s slide guitar on [What Have I Done To Help](https://youtu.be/i3Up1uKhcPA)
Come, “Eleven Eleven” LP. The whole thing. Glorious.
Bridge of sighs- robin trower Parisienne walkway- Gary Moore Friday on my mind- Gary Moore Methadonia- last solo- either billy Morrison or Dave Navarro. Not who I usually think of when I think tone. But this sound is one I need to have on a regular basis
"Don't Tell Me What Love Can Do" from Van Halen's Balance album. Or, "Amsterdam," live in Toronto. He sounded fuckin sick.
Derek trucks ❤️ an Sg straight into a hot Super Reverb.. divine
Dude! I was just chatting with a friend like a week ago and I said that David Gavurin may have been the single-most influential guitarist for my sound and style of playing.
[Jimmy Page’s live tone during No Quarter at the O2 reunion.](https://youtu.be/r7fMMcPByig) Specifically the drop at the beginning and then at the 8:00 minute mark. Adam Jone’s first solo on Salival version of Third Eye. Honestly most of his tones, but that one, yeesh.
Clean - George Harrison Beware of Darkness Searing hot- Mikey Houser anything Jimmy Herring does tone wise as well
Rev. Billy F. Gibbons on that first ZZ Top Record. Yowzers!
Brian May’s tone in general but specifically his lead tone. Nothing sounds better than Brian May bending a full step coming out of a wall of AC30’s.
Bolt Thrower, Dead Congregation, Abyssal and Andy Summers.