Your perfect tone...

Grunfeld

historyisjunk said:

 ...& I don't think I'd buy "Hank Marvin plays Jesus & Mary Chain".

I so would! 

 

ICBM

Grunfeld said:

historyisjunk said:

 ...& I don't think I'd buy "Hank Marvin plays Jesus & Mary Chain".

I so would!

I'd prefer the other way round. I nearly posted April Skies as my perfect tone...

historyisjunk

Grunfeld said:

historyisjunk said:

 ...& I don't think I'd buy "Hank Marvin plays Jesus & Mary Chain".

I so would! 

 

LOL. But I suspect you'd only listen to it once... & I doubt his former backing singer would be into the project.

Other way round might be OK actually, if they did it properly, they're pretty surfy & I always see The Shadows & The Ventures as a kind of pair.

littlegreenman

Covers just about all my bases in one tune

suspiciousminds

One tone i would love to get is the sound of the guitarist that was with johnny rottens public image ltd at last years glastonbury - sounded epic.

Loobs

I don't really try to copy any other guitarist's tone. 

There are good examples of recorded guitar sounds across multiple genres, but those sounds are the players' own. I can't really think off the top of my head of one example which I think of as 'perfect'. It's such a personal thing. 

daveww

you lot probably won't like this one but I do...  and he play's it with a dorito..!

daveww

no dorito but better tone..!

richardhomer

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I think Carlos' Yamaha SG2000 period was his best tone. A friend who was in music retail at the time was told by the Yahama rep that his guitars were all fitted with original Gibson PAFs which no doubt helped....

daveww

Yep, he was probably still using the SG2000 on the original recording...  they're great guitars...weigh a ton though!

Deijavoo

The start of this is stunning:

Gan on Alan!

daveww

This is not bad either..

Philly_Q

richardhomer said:

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I think Carlos' Yamaha SG2000 period was his best tone. A friend who was in music retail at the time was told by the Yahama rep that his guitars were all fitted with original Gibson PAFs which no doubt helped....

My favourite Sanatana album has always been Santana III - what was he using then, Les Pauls?

knuckleberryfinn

Megii

Actually, this is one of my all time favourites:

Jez6345789

Hi The Sg2000 era Santana brought some classic tones although ISTR Samba pa ti was recorded on the gibson SG special with p90's the original is not a very humbucking type tone. Around that era he was playing around with ISTR a Norlin era CSB les paul custom, later the L6s. I also heard they were original PAF in the SG2000

Dodge

Dodge

Zodiac51

knuckleberryfinn said:

I like that, what timing would that be in then?

Bucket

In terms of heavier sounds, something I've often tried to replicate as a catch-all metal rhythm tone has been Jerry Cantrell on Facelift and Dirt:

It's a really thick, heavy, ballsy sound.