favorite clean tones...

[the guy who invented fire]

Everybody talks about crunch, but what are some great clean tones...I'm gonna reach outside what i listen to to start this off...I'm sure lots of people will start naming Country or jazz players...Im gonna go the other way

-Kurt Cobain, Verse Chours Verse-The intro has a great clean sound
-Tom Delonge, I hate to say it, but he has a very different/signature clean tone...I don't even like Blink 182, and I can pick him out of a crowd
-Jimi, known for the fuzzy, over the top sounds of purplr haze, he had a great clean sound too
-Hank Marvin-one of the best tones EVER...no crunch what so ever
-Jeff Beck-Crazy Legs had some great clean tones, as well as Guitar Shop
-Andy Summers, Killer clean tones...lots of them!
-Danny Gatton, some great crunch BUT heavenly clean tone to boot
-Billy Gibbons, he rarely uses it but it's there
-Joe Perry, lots of good clean sounds

Anymore Ideas?

 

[Zeppelinfan8790]

Re: favorite clean tones...

ok off the top of my head I can think of:

John Frusciante
Mark Knopfler
Jimi
SRV

 

[texasguitarslinger]

Re: favorite clean tones...

David Gilmour

 

[Falstaff]

Re: favorite clean tones...

Alex Chilton when he was with Big Star.

 

[TheProphet]

Re: favorite clean tones...

David Gilmour

Bingo


I'm partial to Andy Summers and Ian Anderson as well

 

[JumpMarine]

Re: favorite clean tones...

Gilmore
SRV-epecially in "Riviera Paradise"

 

[B2D]

Re: favorite clean tones...

My picks- (the songs are just examples)

SRV
Jimi
Knopfler
David Gilmour
James Burton
Chet Atkins
Jeff Buckley (got some wonderful shimmering clean tones on some songs)
Billy Corgan - especially on "Rhinocerous" and "Mayonaise"
Eric Johnson
Joe Satriani - ZZ's Song! amazing sound
Jeff Beck
Mike McReady
Nile Rodgers

 

[Hot _Grits]

Re: favorite clean tones...

Allan Holdsworth
SRV, especially his 'Lenny' tone
Hendrix
Ry Cooder
Jimmy Nolen
Leo Nocentelli
Curtis Mayfield
Steve Cropper
Mike Landau
Grant Green
Cornell Dupree

 

[That90'sGuy]

Re: favorite clean tones...

SRV
Jimi
Mark Knopfler
Joe Walsh
Alex Chilton
Eric Johnson
Kenny Wayne Shepherd

 

[Mac-P]

Re: favorite clean tones...

Jimi Hendrix
Jerry Garcia
Django Rheinhardt



:cool2:

 

[3 cent hero]

Re: favorite clean tones...

SRV, especially his 'Lenny' tone

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[Push to Shuv]

Re: favorite clean tones...

doubt anyone has heard of them, but a band called Number One Fan has amazing guitar sounds.

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: favorite clean tones...

Mark Knopfler
The Edge
Wes Montgomery
Joe Pass
Les Paul
Grant Green
REM ( I forget the gent's name)
the guys in Gomez ( lots of weird tones thrown in too)

 

[rinse_master]

Re: favorite clean tones...

Don Cabbalero
American Football
Karate

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: favorite clean tones...

An often overlooked amazing guitar tone, both clean, mildly overdriven, and high gain, can be found on Yngwie Malmsteen's first album, Rising Force ...

 

[joelap]

Re: favorite clean tones...

Gilmour and Frusciante take the cake for me.

 

[BS123]

Re: favorite clean tones...

Albert Lee
Brent Mason
Larry Carlton
Alex Lifeson
Allan Holdsworth
Danny Gatton
Jerry Donahue
Johnny Hiland

 

[LesStrat]

Re: favorite clean tones...

Hendrix, Carlton, Rik Emmett, Knopfler, Robben Ford

 

[Artie]

Re: favorite clean tones...

Larry Carlton
Lee Ritenour
George Benson
Norman Brown



















me (The question was about "tone" . . . not talent.)

 

[johan1985]

Re: favorite clean tones...

Ain't got no new names but I can only join in and say David Gilmour and Mark Knofler. They're the kings of clean! I would say S.R.V. but he was at his best whith that slightly overdriven sound so it doesn't count...