Members Anderton Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 I'm curious of your opinions regarding two categories, raw sounds and "produced" sounds with amp, effects, etc. I'll get the ball rolling.... Raw sounds: Tele bridge pickup with volume rolled back just a tad to bring in the highsRickenbacker "Rick-O-Sound" with the boosted trebleLes Paul neck pickup with treble rolled back for "creamy" distortionStrat out of phase middle pickup sound Produced sounds: Mark Knopfler's "Sultans of Swing" guitar soundHendrix "Little Wing"Clapton BluesbreakersJeff Beck "Cause We've Ended as Lovers" Early Pete Towshend rhythm guitar (e.g., "Can't Explain")Dave Gilmour solo sound with Pink FloydChet Atkins Gretsch soundWes Montgomery L5Santana's singing, smooth PRS tone Your turn...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Adey Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 I second the clapton bluesbreakers shout.I'll add;Jonny Greenwood's (radiohead) solo on Paranoid Android.(Mutronix Mutator)Radiohead's (again) 12-string acoustic arpeggio fest on Jigsaw FallingRammstein's 'wall of cabinets sound' on Mann gegen Mann.Richie Valen's Harmony guitar. La bamba, We belong together etcThe guitars on the over-dubbed version of Buddy Holly's Love is strangeFor some reason i cant stand Carlos Santana..Wait! No, i remember. Its because he's terrible, yeah that was it [/opinion] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members notjonahbutnoah Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 Santana's singing, smooth MESA/BOOGIE toneYour turn...! Fix'd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elias Graves Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 Raw...A P90 neck pickup into a cranked AC30. Produced...As far as I'm concerned, Page is one of the masters. He made and captured so many unique guitar sounds that he stands alone. EG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrbrown49 Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 Glad EC's bluesbreakers was mentioned. That's one of my favorite tones, especially on Ramblin'.Raw:Rick + Vox. Strat + Ampeg ReverberocketProduced:Knopflers tone's on Shangri-la. Fix'dHe sounded so much better when he was playing an SG with p90s through a super reverb. :poke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CrazyRocketGuy Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 Angus Young. SG straight into a Marshall. I also really like Billy Gibbons' tone on La Grange especially the solo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nuke_diver Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 Dave Gilmour solo sound with Pink Floyd I like this a lotAnother good one is Les West's tone on Mississippi Queen (I think it's a P90 ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Adey Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 The sound of a cheap acoustic being smashed over someone's back in a Clint Eastwood style bar brawl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Still.ill Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 eddie van halen on Van Halen I tone. Johnny marr on The Smiths Billy Corgan on Siamese Dream steve jones on never mind the bollocks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mightysasquatch Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 Three produced: Larry Carlton on "Kid Charlemagne" by Steely Dan Donald Kinsey on "Waiting In Vain" by Bob Marley Robert Quine on "Coney Island Baby" by Lou Reed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members WRGKMC Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 For novel electric tones I still get a kick out of the earley primative stuff using effects like Fuzz and reverb. Bands like, the Stones, Iron Butterfly, Doors, Hendrix and many others who were on the cutting edge of getting "new" sounds. It wasnt only the tone, its the scales first used by musicians and the mixture of all the different musical types thrown together that really made them stand out. Many of those tones continued to be mimicked ever since. Everything is so tamed and pocketed now in comparison what you used to hear. Theres so littel experimentation that gets into the music any more. If it does its highly processed and calculated to the point that its lost all its raw edge. I miss the days where all the experimentation was new and both the odball and tight sounds all got released on albums. I think if a musician is confident enough to take a littel criticism, he should be willing to take more chances doing things that clearly express some creativity in both tone and composition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sale83 Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 Donald Kinsey on "Waiting In Vain" by Bob Marley I think that was Junior Marvin,he joined the band before Exodus was recorded Rory Gallagher on everythingDave Murray/Adrian Smith onThe Number of the Beast,Powerslave and somewhere in time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TerjeW Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 Hank Marvin / Bruce Welch ; "Nivram". (I think HM is playing a hollowbodied "Gretch", not a Stratocaster on this track.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mdintx Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 BB King's clean/reverb tone on "How Blue Can You Get" and a +1 Leslie West's "Mississippi Queen" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted June 25, 2010 Author Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 Fix'dNormally we don't allow altering quotes, but I appreciate your giving props to Mesa/Boogie too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members scuzzo Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 Doyle bramhall> custom strat into a bass man..derek trucks> SG not sure the ampJimi> strat into Marshall StacksPete Townsend>Gibby LP > Hiwatt stacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GCDEF Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 Robin Trower's Live album Allman Brothers Fillmore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Special J Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 Raw - P90 bridge in a mahogany slab cranked through a Fender Twin in an ISO room PAF bridge through Marshall Plexi cranked Tele bridge through AC30 just on the verge of breakup Strat neck through any good clean amp anything played through an original script logo MXR Phase90 Produced - Jim Martin's Gibson V or LP throug Dual Rec on FNM's Angel Dust All of the guitar tones on Steely Dan's Gaucho Jeff Buckley's verbed out Fender through Fender tones Brian May, all Josh Homme, all Trey Anastasio's tones with his Mesa Mark rig John McLaughlin's tones on the early Mahavishnu albums David Gilmour, all Pink Floyd albums he was on Jonny Greenwood's tones on The Bends and OK Computer The Edge's tones from Unforgettable Fire to Rattle and Hum Carlos Santana's early 70's tones - SG through Fender? Murray/Smith, all early 80's Maiden Albums Mike McCready's tones on Mad Season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nickeroo Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 RAW: Tele neck into 6L6 equipped amp for "bloom" and on the bridge for hair raising rock. Strat into a Fender or Bassman. Favourite tones: Eric Johnson around 1989-91 (the "classic" Ah Via Musicom tones) 2nd the sounds Trucks gets, + Hendrix into Marshall stacks loud with fuzz and wah. Holdsworth on any album really, (consistently great tones) Shawn Lane's later very clean and compressed sound, and his early 90s sound. Stevie Ray Vaughan's Tubescreamer into Twins/Deluxes defined an era and people are still stealing/borrowing it to this day. Perhaps Slash into Marshall Silver Jubilees. SD JBs into JCM800s Vai from his mid 90s era, live, for gorgeous ear splitting tones. (That's 10 so far) Malmsteen in mid 80s (before Oddessy album) gorgoeus singing neck pickup tones, stinging bridge (think "I Am A Viking") John Sykes on Whitesnake's 1987 (e.g. Crying in the Rain solo). Another vote for Van Halen on VH1 (again, transformed an era, knocked guitarists on their ear. Eruption, anyone?) Brian May's versatile tones from one guitar and many Vox AV30s, treble boosted (live and on albums, Night at The Opera, principally). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members handen Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 Chris Goss's treatment of Alain Johannes's lead tone on Mark Lanegan Band's "Bubblegum" is especially squeaky. Love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mightysasquatch Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 I think that was Junior Marvin,he joined the band before Exodus was recorded I didn't know that, I stand corrected, thanks for the info. That solo is money, GORGEOUS clean tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lefchr Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 Mudhoney - touch me I'm sick Steve Albini(especially on the shellac albums) Duane Deinison - The Jesus Lizard & Tomahawk Mark knofler on sultans of swing I'm not even a fan of the music so much as I just love hearing the tone of the guitars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StompBoxLover Posted June 25, 2010 Members Share Posted June 25, 2010 Billy Gibbons on RhythmeenTy Tabor on Dogmansounds on Led Zeps Houses of the Holy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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