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    Kings of Clean Tone?

    Who gets the most beautiful clean tones you've heard? There's a lot of talk about gain in the amp section, but what artists have clean tones to die for, and what do they use?

    Not pushed clean or blues tones, I'm talking big fat lush CLEEEEN.

    My favorite has to be Hershel Yatovitz from Chris Isaac's band. The Fender/Fender amp and Gretsch/Fender amp combination is just godly on Isaac's CD's.
    Originally posted by Boogie Bill
    I've got 60 guitars...but 49 trumpets is just...INSANITY! WTF!
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    Re: Kings of Clean Tone?

    I'm talking big fat lush CLEEEEN.

    Then you must be talking about my Carvin XV-212.

    YES AN X-AMP!
    Trainspotter

    "...the real key is a good warm delay and lots of lysergic acid diethylamid"

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    • #3
      Re: Kings of Clean Tone?

      the guitarist from an Aussie band - "The beautiful girls"

      plays a jazzmaster into a twin.....sounds sooo nice

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      • #4
        Re: Kings of Clean Tone?

        B.B. King.

        I always liked the Beetles clean tones.

        This is the tone area that interest me the most. I seems like most people don't care about this anymore. IMO.

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          Re: Kings of Clean Tone?

          If chorus'd or delay'd kleen kounts, I gotta give much love to mah boys Alex L. and Ty T.


          If not, the best clean tone I've ever heard was me trying out a $2500 Gibson Historic '56 goldtop with P90s through a $2500 Marshall 1974X. Made me understand why guys of a certain age (mine-ish) kick high gain tones to the curb -- they can finally afford to do clean right.

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          • #6
            Re: Kings of Clean Tone?

            Mark Knopfler gets my vote.
            Originally posted by tone4days
            we're not musicians, we're beer salesmen

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              Re: Kings of Clean Tone?

              John Petrucci's clean tones are amazing, especially on the older stuff. So glassy..
              "I was always interested in the 'little black dots.' You know, the idea that you can take a piece of manuscript paper and write on it and have a whole orchestra at your beck and call - That's creativity."
              -Steve Vai

              Originally posted by bungalowbill
              I think souping up a mini is akin to putting a Floyd Rose on a ES-175.
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                Re: Kings of Clean Tone?

                Originally posted by bungalowbill
                Mark Knopfler gets my vote.
                Good call. It doesn't matter whether it's a LP, Strat, or Tele, he's got it down.
                I think his favorite amp nowadays is a Toneking Comet. Basically a Fender Blackface boutique.

                I love blackface and tweed cleans, but ironically my tone is totally based on EL-34's nowadays. With the right amp, EL-34's can sound just as good, but a little different than 6L6's. I guess it'd be considered British clean.
                Originally posted by Boogie Bill
                I've got 60 guitars...but 49 trumpets is just...INSANITY! WTF!

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                  Re: Kings of Clean Tone?

                  Originally posted by Gearjoneser
                  Good call. It doesn't matter whether it's a LP, Strat, or Tele, he's got it down.
                  I think his favorite amp nowadays is a Toneking Comet. Basically a Fender Blackface boutique.

                  I love blackface and tweed cleans, but ironically my tone is totally based on EL-34's nowadays. With the right amp, EL-34's can sound just as good, but a little different than 6L6's. I guess it'd be considered British clean.
                  I think he would sound good through just about anything.......his touch is so precise.
                  Originally posted by tone4days
                  we're not musicians, we're beer salesmen

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                  • #10
                    Re: Kings of Clean Tone?

                    Chris Rea, Mathias Jabs, Rudolf Schenker, Kirk Hammet on Black album(unforgiven, nothing else matters) Blackmore(Catch the Rainbow) David Gillmore.
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                    • #11
                      Re: Kings of Clean Tone?

                      Originally posted by bungalowbill
                      Mark Knopfler gets my vote.
                      +1 for the Sultan of Swing
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                      • #12
                        Re: Kings of Clean Tone?

                        Jeff Buckley with a Telecaster going into a Fender Vibroverb. Lush and bell like tonal heaven!

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                        • #13
                          Re: Kings of Clean Tone?

                          What's this "clean" that you speak of?

                          As far as I'm concerned, but best part about cleans is that you can dial them out.
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                          • #14
                            Re: Kings of Clean Tone?

                            Originally posted by bungalowbill
                            Mark Knopfler gets my vote.
                            +1

                            Or any sort of tone for that matter
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                            • #15
                              Re: Kings of Clean Tone?

                              After thinking about this for quite some time, the only guy I can think of (and who I listen to) that uses clean cleans is Billy Corgan.

                              Then again, Black Hole Sun just spontaniously started playing in my head.
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