Favorite guitar tones

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indeloon85

Inspired
Ok, this is for everyone. Clean, mid-gain, high gain, etc. by song/album, what would be your favorite guitar tone? I'm curious, since everyone has such a vast opinion, but It would be great to hear all the differences and similarities in taste.

Probably best to put artist and album, or artist and song if it pertains to a certain single. Just curious!
 
Queen - Killer Queen, Tie your mother down
Boston - Anything on the first album
Van Halen - Any song, any album
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres album (Waitin' for the bus, La Grange)
Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times, Black Dog
Stevie Ray Vaughan - (Pretty much anything he did..The house is Rockin', Pride and Joy, Tightrope, etc.)
AC/DC - Back in Black, Have a Drink on Me, Shook Me
Aerosmith - Toys in the attic album (Adams Apple, Walk this Way, Sweet Emotion)
 
I love Tom Quayle tones on his YouTube videos. His last improv legato tone is gorgeous.
 
The Acacia Strain - Wormwood
Tool - Aenima
A Perfect Circle - 13th Step
Love & Death - Between Here and Lost
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
 
mrstrat said:
Queen - Killer Queen, Tie your mother down
Boston - Anything on the first album
Van Halen - Any song, any album
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres album (Waitin' for the bus, La Grange)
Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times, Black Dog
Stevie Ray Vaughan - (Pretty much anything he did..The house is Rockin', Pride and Joy, Tightrope, etc.)
AC/DC - Back in Black, Have a Drink on Me, Shook Me
Aerosmith - Toys in the attic album (Adams Apple, Walk this Way, Sweet Emotion)
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Pretty much these but I would have to add in some

Ty Tabor (King's X)
and any Def Leppard High & Dry tune
Andy Summers The Police era
Also for newer rock anything off AIC Facelift, Cake "The distance" love that clanky, boxy thing he has going on in that tune.
 
mrstrat said:
Queen - Killer Queen, Tie your mother down
Boston - Anything on the first album
Van Halen - Any song, any album
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres album (Waitin' for the bus, La Grange)
Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times, Black Dog
Stevie Ray Vaughan - (Pretty much anything he did..The house is Rockin', Pride and Joy, Tightrope, etc.)
AC/DC - Back in Black, Have a Drink on Me, Shook Me
Aerosmith - Toys in the attic album (Adams Apple, Walk this Way, Sweet Emotion)
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Add:
Robin Trower- bridge of sighs
Nuno Bettencourt - Three sides to every story
 
Don Felder's Heavy Metal
ZZ Top's I Need You Tonight
ACDC's Night Prowler




Ed tit: GNR's Rocket Queen
Dokken's Lightning Strikes Again
Journey's Any Way You Want It
ZZ Top's I Got The Six & TV Dinners
Tones off of Dio's Holy Diver & We Rock albums
Randy Rhoads Mr. Crowley
 
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Can't believe no one posted this yet...
Eric Johnson: Cliffs of Dover

Then-
SRV: Say What, Riviera Paradise
John Petrucci: Pretty much anything he's done
Johnny A: Sometime Tuesday Morning
Steve Vai: Erotic Nightmare
Santana: Milagro Era
 
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Jimmy Page - I Can't Quit You Baby
Angus Young - Back In Black
Billy Gibbons - Brown Sugar
Keith Richards - Honky Tonk Women
Steve Howe - Heart Of The Sunrise
Mick Marz - Kickstart My Heart
Matthias Jabs - No One Like You
Jimi Hendrix - Fire
Neil Young - Powderfinger
Yngvie Malmsteen - Black Star
Eddie Van Halen - Eruption
Mark Knopfler - Down To The Waterline
Ed King - Sweet Home Alabama
Jeff Beck - Cause' We Ended As Lovers
Eric Clapton - White Room
David Gilmour - Time
 
Gotta go with Lost Keys/Rosetta Stoned off Tool's 10,000 Days, I absolutely love the sound of the cleaned up guitar in Lost Keys while still keeping the chewiness and crunch, and the aggressiveness of Rosetta Stoned dripping in feedback is great.

Anything off of Dr. Feelgood. Mick Mars knows how to build a guitar tone. Those guitars crunch and sustain like nothing else.

Love Myles Kennedy's tone on the Apocalyptic Love album, a little cleaner and smoother than Slash's sound and complements him really well.

Lastly, I'd love Satchel's sound on the Balls Out album. Just pure 80's metal goodness.
 
ac/dc - Back in Black
Bonnie Rait - that slide tone - Ohhhh ahhh
SVR - Texas Flood
Robin Trower -
Kings X - Dogman
Lamb of God - Laid to rest
Vogg ( Decapitated ) - Pest
Van Halen - early pre Hagar
ZZ Top - La Grange
I could go on and on but thats alot of remembering to do
 
David Gilmour - The Wall and Momentary Lapse...

Has anyone with an Axe FX been able to create a Run Like Hell preset that sounds right with a Telecaster? Post a link if you know of one, thanks.
 
Cleans


Mid gain


High gain


Lead (0:36 into vid)


...and pretty much any tone off the InFlames "Soundtrack to Your Escape" album.
Like these:
 
Cleans - it varies
Mid Gain - the Andy Timmons video posted by Rotti (well most of Andy's mid gain live tones) & Greg Howe.
High Gain - Slash from the Slash's Snakepit album - Ain't Life Grand
Lead Tones - Slash, Neil Zaza, Marco Sfogli
 
Nile Rodgers - Le Freak
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour (album)
Jeff Beck - live at BB King's Blues Club and Grille (album, especially A Day In The Life)
 
Nevermore - Jeff Loomis on Tomorrow Turned Into Yesterday solo. I think there's some univibe on there but whatever the combo of effects is, it really makes the solo stand out and sound great to my ears. This is based off the remastered version of the album. I don't know if sounded the same on the original. The part I'm speaking of specifically is from around 3:00 on. The other tones in the song aren't too shabby either...

 
Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues / Parisienne Walkways
Opeth - Deliverance (album)
John Petrucci - Damage Control
 
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