If you had to pick the best guitar tone you've ever heard......

GavRichList

Hahaha, hold on forum police

dindude

GavHaus;569782" said:

Hahaha, hold on forum police

Just jealous really, wish I had time to while away hours listening to guitar clips!

GavRichList

There, edited

jeztone2

Im wary of posting Youtube clips cos something recorded on an iPhone doesn't capture what your ears heard. 

Gary Moore live at Sheffield City Hall March 1987 (face melting volume,but real dynamic's)

Vivian Campbell with Last In Line at o2 Islington in July 2013

Alex Lifeson with Rush Wembly Arena Sept 2007

Maynehead

How about some Blackmore...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsO26Pgm6qI

simonk

Peter Green - Need your love so bad

Lew

Well it would be something I have heard live and not recorded. I don't think I could chose a favourite recorded tone. My list would be infinite.

I think I'm gonna say Urlo from UFOMAMMUT his bass was spine crushing, bowel movement inducing and deeply connected to the cosmos. I could feel my fillings shaking loose and bones compressing. He's a bassist but bass is a guitar right!

Cabicular

I'm all about this (van halen)


But for lead tones I can't stay away from Zappa
Solo at 2:26

viz

I love Steve Vai's tones and this one captures most of them in one song. I was in the front at this gig and I remember shivering at the end when he played some of those harmonics.

stickyfiddle

A couple that spring to mind.

U2 - The Fly, specifically the Elevation tour version

Mayer's Slow Dancing.. from Where The Light Is

ThePrettyDamned

I love John frusciante's live at slane castle lead tones, super powerful sounds.

I also really like wes borland from limp bizkit. It's *that* rectifier tone, huge and loose but just tight enough to keep it together. Early Linkin Park has a similar tone, actually.

GavRichList

I could very well have just said the whole "Hail To The Thief" album by radiohead. Guitars on that are so very good.

TinLip

Ahhh - too many to choose from!

In no particular order:

- The tone that SRV has on Rude Mood

- The solo that Brian May does in I Want To Break Free

- Money For Nothing intro

Samgb

Great Tones Right Now At This Moment:

Robert Cray all over his last album In My Soul. Pretty much the best Strat sounds ive ever heard by a mile.

Malcolm Young. Best Rock Rhythm Guitar Sound Throughout A Career Award. 

Jim Campilongo on his last one Dream Dictionary. Really out there Tele work but always a great sound. 

*Disclaimer: All of these choices will be different tomorrow.*   

Dalefty

I'm embarrassed to admit this, but it was the sound of Hank Marvin playing Apache, that made me want to learn to play guitar, I think I was seven years old the first time I heard it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB91ayDlQLE

DaLefty

xSkarloey

Nothing embarrassing about liking a bit of Hank.

He has THE clean tone.

Jimmy Page: Good Times. Small amp+big room +plate reverb= tone.

John Squire: She Bangs the Drums. Great hard rock tone.

Johnny Marr's acoustic tone on Queen is Dead and Strangeways albums: how to get a smooth acoustic tone to sit perfectly in a mix

Blackmore from Burn era DP up to Long Live RnR Rainbow: Strat on steroids. Raw, fat and snarling.

proggy

Anything by Bill Nelson.

Samgb

Skarloey said:

Nothing embarrassing about liking a bit of Hank.

He has THE clean tone.

Jimmy Page: Good Times. Small amp+big room +plate reverb= tone.

Hank has a fantastic sound. Always has.

And yes times a million for Pagey. I have seen people on here slagging off his tone which just goes to show that some people have cloth ears. Maybe its because he didnt have one definable sound throughout his career? A great producer and a great recorder of guitar sounds, of which he had many.  

victorludorum

Robin Trower with a helping hand from Geoff Emerick. The 'Bridge of Sighs' and 'Victims of The Fury' albums for me.

57Deluxe

Ah - but is it the GUITAR's Tone or the AMP and or FX / AMP you are enamored with?