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

BloodEagle

Samgb

victorludorum said:

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

I have recently discovered and am very much enjoying Robin Trower. Lovely sound. 

EdGrip

TinLip;569848" said:

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

Believe it or not, that solo is a keyboard synth!

martinw

Ted Nugent at Newcastle in 2006. He used a Les Paul for most of the gig and sounded great, already one of the best tones I'd ever heard.
Then for the last few songs he got out the Byrdland. God, what a sound.

EricTheWeary

No idea really. Guitar tone is so much about context it's hard to say.

However, one thing that stuck in my head was seeing Mike Zito a couple of years ago and he had his custom Tele into a Category 5 combo. It wasn't that it was such an amazing inyerface tone it was that it did all the things great valve tones are supposed to do - touch sensitive, cleans up, that 3dness, you could really hear were and what he was playing. I guess a eureka moment that all that is possible.

I did once stand next to John Entwistle whilst he warmed up. I don't know if it was the greatest ( bass) guitar tone but certainly was the loudest.

tbm

Easy. John Reis playing with Hot Snakes at ATP in Minehead in 2011 or 2012.

Les Paul Pro with a Rio Grande Fat Bastard P90 in the bridge and some manner of lipstick pickup in the neck. Each pickup has a separate output jack . The P90 went to a late 70s MV JMP into a 2x12, and the lipstick went to an old looking AC30. Sounded amazing on its own or in the context of the band. It had massive amounts of girth but tons of clarity.

hubobulous

@viz - yep, Whispering on a Prayer sprang to mind for me too, although the Rio version.

Knopfler will always be the one for me - his tone on the Love Over Gold album is perfection to my ears.

Nuno on Pornograffitti, Lynch on Back for the Attack, VH1 and Satch on The Extremist album are my reference tones for distorted.

SRV and Walter Trout for overdriven blues.

Sassafras

I can't think of just one particular tone but I used to think Mick Taylor sounded really good.

I probably couldn't come up with one single favourite tone even if you held a gun to my head. Far too many great tones down the years.

Gassage

Many Gilmour era's but Live8 and Gdansk in partic.
Knopfler Brothers in Arms

bingefeller

Cleans:

Rhythm:

Lead here at 1.49:

richardhomer

hubobulous;570018" said:

Knopfler will always be the one for me - his tone on the Love Over Gold album is perfection to my ears.

I agree. Telegraph Road in particular - his sunburst Schecter 'Strat', with Schecter pick-ups, played through a MkII Boogie.

Skipped

1. Knopfler playing a 50's Les Paul (various live and recorded)
2. Knopfler playing a Pre-Historic Les Paul (Brothers in Arms)

Niallmo

57Deluxe;569912" said:

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

Fingers!

Fretwired

Love many of the tones above .. Thomas Blug is rarely gets the credit he deserves ... turn up and enjoy.

Megii

Just to put a jazz example in, I love Pat Martino's tone here:

tone1

Just recently I have been admiring the Strat tones of the Guitarist in the Commotions of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

ICBM

tone1 said:

Just recently I have been admiring the Strat tones of the Guitarist in the Commotions of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

Neil Clark.

He's a phenomenal player, almost unknown (other than to Lloyd Cole fans), not hugely technical but very inventive and with great touch and tone.

Lloyd himself isn't a bad player by any means either, and he also employed the late great Robert Quine on some of his solo albums (and Clark too, even post-Commotions), so if you're into that sort of interesting but not really 'rock' playing and haven't listened to much of his stuff beyond Lost Weekend, he's well worth checking out.

Yes, I am an admitted huge fan and have been since Rattlesnakes, which remains one of my top ten favourite albums of all time.

shaunm

ICBM;570212" said:

tone1 said:

Just recently I have been admiring the Strat tones of the Guitarist in the Commotions of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions





Neil Clark.

He's a phenomenal player, almost unknown (other than to Lloyd Cole fans), not hugely technical but very inventive and with great touch and tone.

Lloyd himself isn't a bad player by any means either, and he also employed the late great Robert Quine on some of his solo albums (and Clark too, even post-Commotions), so if you're into that sort of interesting but not really 'rock' playing and haven't listened to much of his stuff beyond Lost Weekend, he's well worth checking out.

Yes, I am an admitted huge fan and have been since Rattlesnakes, which remains one of my top ten favourite albums of all time.

Next thread - top five albums

xSkarloey

If we're talking Lloyd Cole I'll do my usual and mention Robert Quine.

I love his tone on anything he did.

tone1

@ICBM

I saw Lloyd in Exeter on his last Solo acoustic Tour and he was fantastic! He played a Tayor Suburst Acoustic and kept an ice bucket for his fingers in between songs.
I've loved Lloyd Cole since buying his best of Album on a long drive to Nuremberg And subsequently have all his Albums and Solo Albums