What are your favorite guitar tones ever?

[steadystate]

Wrong section of the forum?

 

[bradlake]

No, IMO, in the OP , he relates these favorite tones to tonematches users may have or would like to create on the III...

Wrong section of the forum?

 

[unix-guy]

i saw Snarky Puppy at their GroundUp fest on miami beach last night, and Mark pulled some ungodly sounds out of his rig.. the set wasalmost all new unreleased stuff...my fave performance by them yet...they really transcend genre and space/time....

Nice! I would love to see them live!

Mark's solo stuff is great. Some of the tones he gets on the Spark and Echo album are so good! I really like how he creates clean tones. The song Montreal from that album is a brilliant clean tone.

 

[Paulinfl]

 

[unix-guy]

George Lynch-Under Lock and Key,Back for the Attack era
Alex Skolnick- The Legacy, Return to Serenity Leads
Paul Gilbert Leads on Street Lethal album
John Sykes on the self titled Whitesnake album
Steve Clark and Phil Collen on Hysteria album
Dave Murray and Adrian Smith-Somewhere in Time album

Matthias Jabs - Blackout and LAFS (favs) ,such an underrated player
George Lynch - BFTA album
Gary Moore
Michael Sweet
EVH - Mean Street (Fair Warning)

Vai's tone on Slip Of The Tongue
Ronnie LeTekro's tone on TNT's Intuition album
Vito Bratta's lead tone from Little Fighter
Mustaine's rhythm sound from Holy Wars

I'm not quite there with creating or re-creating tones yet. Watching Carter's AF3 class now so I can better operate the unit.

The 80's guitar gods are alive and well here!

Gotta add Warren DiMartini and Jake E. Lee to make the list compete!

 

[Jimmytwotimes]

Joe Bonamassa
Dave Murray
Alex Lifeson - first 5 or 6 albums
Warrnen Haynes
George Lynch
EVH
Mattis Jabs
Jake E Lee (Ozzy era)
Duane Allmän

 

[NightWalker]

my favorite guitar tone ever is the Steve Lukather Toto Live in Paris 1990
then i like
Michael Landau 80`s tone
Dann Huff
Thomas Blug
George Lynch Wicked
Sven Larsson
Andy Timmons early tone
Eric Johnson early tone

 

[Rock Chalk]

Matthias Jabs - Blackout and LAFS (favs) ,such an underrated player
George Lynch - BFTA album
Gary Moore
Michael Sweet
EVH - Mean Street (Fair Warning)

Yes! The Scorp’s Blackout is absolutely one of my deserted island picks. Never gets old!

Might not be too popular here, but also love the processed stereo goodness of anything Boston\Scholz.

 

[MattBowman]

Wrong section of the forum?

I had asked in the original post "What are your absolute favorite guitar tones ever and have you tried to recreate them in your Axe-Fx III?" So I was curious as to whether or not anyone has tried recreating their favorite tones with the III, via tone matches or just tweaking by ear etc.

 

[MattBowman]

Alex Skolnick- The Legacy, Return to Serenity Leads

Oh man yes, there was something about his tone here that was just awesome! I remember having this on tape back in the 90s and just loving his tone! I would love to try and match this tone for sure!

 

[greiswig]

...
Michael Landau 80`s tone
Dann Huff

Two of my favorites in there, too. Huff's solo on Wes King's song "Martin Luther"...man, that's a great solo.

Robben Ford's tone on Bonnie Raitt's "Slow Ride" and on his own "Up The Line"
ZZ Top on stuff like "Tush."
2nd on Ian Thornley, too...listening to "Diamonds" as I write this. Man...

 

[Rick]

David Gilmour's 70 tones
Leslie West in the "Mississippi Queen" P90 era
Jeff Beck Blow by Blow
Santana's big Mesa tones from the 70s
Brent Mason, the full range
Mike Campbell (Heartbreakers)

I feel like this could go on forever...

 

[Project Mayhem]

In no particular order:

Eric Johnson
Jeff Beck
Michael Schenker.
EVH
Gary Moore
Gilmour
Timmons
Derek Trucks

 

[yek]

Ian Thornley
Black Crowes
early EVH
Derek Trucks
Jerry Cantrell
Rory Gallagher
Jimi Hendrix

 

[Optimus Stein]

Lots of great names already. A few more...

John Cippollina

Frank Zappa (Guitar Solo starts @3:18)

Jerry Garcia

...did we really get this far without mentioning Mark Knopfler?

 

[trixdropd]

Pantera Vulgar Display Of Power Waiting on the Randall century 200 amp and rg-100es amp.

metallica And Justice For All.

 

[WhiteSpace]

New Order
Mark Knopfler
David Gilmour
George Harrison
The Black Keys

 

[fractalz]

There are so many great classic tones. A recent visceral one that I’d love help identifying is the guitar in “Ripping Me Apart” by Nothing More. It matches the song title very well! I’m thinking an AC-30 with Blue speakers, but what do I know...

 

[unix-guy]

Frampton on Comes Alive and Knopfler on Alchemy.

...did we really get this far without mentioning Mark Knopfler?

 

[Perdikament]

Lotta greats mentioned so far.. I gotta throw Albert King into the mix.
And some great tones on Opeth’s Ghost Of Perdition Album, (as well as Blackwater Park & Deliverance.)
Jerry Cantrell on the Dinosaurs album.
Iommi on Sabbath’s Live Evil. (Killer drums on that album too, plus RJD)
Larry Mitchell
Travis Larson
David Grissom
One of my all time favorites is Chris Whitley’s tone on the Din Of Ecstasy album.
Ronnie Earl. Can’t forget Ronnie Earl.
Chris Duarte