The Best Single Recorded Guitar Tone

Gassage

Ok, following on from @dindude 's excellent clean thread...tonez....

The greatest single tone you've heard on a record?

This is obviously a YMMV thread as tonez are different for different people.

My nomination - Stevie Ray here (1.40 on for solo) and I'm told it was a Strat into a cranked brown Vibroverb.

If I could ape one tone it would be this:

dindude

Honestly, it would have to be this. Yes it's live but I think it qualifies as Weld is one of his most popular albums. Such a visceral tone. Try getting that with your Helix's, motherfuckers!

thecolourbox

The first riff of this for me. Not the best though necessarily, just my favourite:

dindude

Other notable ones for me would be:

Trademark - Eric Johnson (solo tone not the clean sound).
Until the end of the world - U2
Time - Gilmour
Don't let me be misunderstood - Robben Ford
Kid Chalamange - Larry Carlton 

TTBZ

Basically a heavy modern hot rodded marshall style.

cruxiform

Gary Moore - I Can't Wait Until Tomorrow. 3:10 for solo but also the whole song really. This +1000.

Bidley

Budgie

I love Angus' tone in Ride On, it's very Pete Green. Beyond that, shit loads, would have to let the let the effects of the Malbec diminish diminish... ho ho

Danji

Archtop 

wes montgomery besame mucho

Rock 

Brian May - Dead on Time

Acoustic

matt munisteri and Bill Frisell - Everything on this video

TTBZ

Honorable mention to Jerry Cantrell on Dirt as well.

Schnozz

ZZTop's Brown Sugar...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBqOCaAO8m8

dindude

Budgie said:

I love Angus' tone in Ride On, it's very Pete Green. Beyond that, shit loads, would have to let the let the effects of the Malbec diminish diminish... ho ho

That's a good shout too, sublime tone.

Danny1969

Panama - Van Halen ..... a great example of valve amp dirt where you can hear every note in the more complex chord voicing he uses on this song and the tone on the stripped  down middle section is sublime

tone1

dindude said:

Budgie said:

I love Angus' tone in Ride On, it's very Pete Green. Beyond that, shit loads, would have to let the let the effects of the Malbec diminish diminish... ho ho

That's a good shout too, sublime tone.

Yep, ''tis one of my Fav's as well 

Kebabkid

Ooh, some have been mentioned but the ones that come to mind are Robben Ford's tone on the Talk to your Daughter album and on the title track of the same name (opening bit and solo) and 'Help the poor'



- solo at 2'08"

Dann Huff's tone on the the Giant albums - I couldn't pick a single one

bingefeller

Seems like someone has been hard at work and has removed almost all of Extremes Waiting for the Punchline tracks from YouTube.  

Well, Nuno's cranked 90s 63 reissue brown Tolex Vibroverb, with a microphonic valve, into a 4x12 is the best tone ever recorded.  

Danji

bingefeller said:

Seems like someone has been hard at work and has removed almost all of Extremes Waiting for the Punchline tracks from YouTube.  

Well, Nuno's cranked 90s 63 reissue brown Tolex Vibroverb, with a microphonic valve, into a 4x12 is the best tone ever recorded.  

Yes! He's incapable of a bad tone 

ThePrettyDamned

Yngwie Malmsteem's lead tone. Absolutely brilliant. 

racefaceec90

Either Steve rothery (anything he plays tbh) and robin Guthrie for dreamy chimey guitar. 

bodhi

TheBlueWolf

SRV's "Lenny" does it for me