Guitar Tones You Don't Like, But Others Do

[Burkwieser]

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Stevie Ray Vaughan


Just kidding just Kidding....:wall:

I really dislike Dimebag Darells tone, not to metion that most of his solos to me seem like noise..

I agree except for the album "Vulgar Display of Power". I think he had a very heavy thick "kick your butt" sound on that album. He deffinently set himself apart from any other players with sound that he had on that album. If that is your type of music.

My beaf is usually not with the guitar sound as much as it is with using a wah pedal in a solo. I feel there are so many players that just bounce there leg away without even caring where it falls in their playing. Sometimes I think it would sound much better if they didn't try and use it. I think using one is more of an art, and a knack. I don't like to bag on players, but I feel Kirk Hammett is a perfect example. He should just throw his wah pedal in the garbage. This is just my feeling though, and I am not totaly ripping on Kirk. He is a very talented player.

 

[Lewguitar]

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I disliked Roy Buchanan's live tone most of the time. Most of the time it sounded to bright and harsh to me...except on tunes like the Messiah Will Come Again. That was perfect. Live, he did alot of BSing I thought.

I dislike Hendrix's live tone most of the time too. I loved his playing at Monteray Pop...but not the stuff from the Fillmore or at Woodstock.

I haven't loved Eric Clapton's tone ever since he started playing a Strat.

I wish he'd go back to soloing with a Les Paul....and just play the Strat for rythym.

 

[Closed Eye]

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I dislike Hendrix's live tone most of the time too. I loved his playing at Monteray Pop...but not the stuff from the Fillmore or at Woodstock.

I haven't loved Eric Clapton's tone ever since he started playing a Strat.

You disliked his tone on the Live at the Fillmore? I thought that was a great set, with great sound!

Maybe the beef here is with the production value? More than that, it's a remaster of the original tapes, right? could it just be bad mixing?

I agree with you about Clapton's tone though. Whenever he does Cream tunes with the Strat it just sounds thin, not enough balls, and definantly not enough attitude. Maybe that's just him mellowing out, I dunno, but the Strat's got something to do with it...

 

[Lewguitar]

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I liked Jimi's tone on Machine Gun...but I prefer his studio tone to his live tone more often than not. Truthfully, I didn't like Band of Gypsies. I thought Billy Cox and Buddy Miles weren't the right players for Jimi. Just not talented, imaginative and rock n roll enough. I liked Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell better. And Jack Cassidy! I thought Jack Cassidy was maybe the best bass player Hendrix ever recorded with...wish they'd done more together.

I usually thought Jimi sounded like he was struggling live...between being out of tune half the time and having to play with musicians with less than half of his vision and imagination and rythymic flexibility, I thought he often sounded kind of stiff and sloppy.

That said, Jimi's tones on Are You Experienced, Axis and Electric Ladyland are sensational. Tho I have to say that I think SRV often got a better "Hendrix tone" than Hendrix...even tho Hendrix was the visionary and more creative musician.

Lew

 

[xerxes]

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i guess im the only one that honestly doesnt mind claptons tone....

 

[Mkf411]

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also, might surpise some people, but i cant stand neil young's electric sound.

It would surprise me if you did like it? Neil Young has tone???? I call him Neil "I'll Depress You" Young. Just kidding, he's got good tunes and I love that wacky electric playing.

 

[Mkf411]

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How come nobody's mentioned Slash? I don't really dislike his tone, but he does seem to get ragged on by people.

Is Nirvana worth mentioning? They weren't really a guitar band.

What about the master of tone, Yngwie Malmsteen?

 

[Mincer]

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What about the master of tone, Yngwie Malmsteen?

Actually, seeing Yngwie on the G3 tour showed me just how cool his tone is. Much thinner than Satch and Vai, not all gooped up with distortion. Very Very nice.

 

[MikeRocker]

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Santana - Sounds like he always uses the neck humbucker with the tone turned all the way down.
Clapton after he started using that horrible active mid-boost in his Strats. Comare his tone on "It's In The Way That You Use It" from August to anything from Journeyman. Or listen to his tone compared to Robert Cray's on "Old Love" from Journeyman. That active crap just takes all the life out of the sound, it makes it so sterile.

 

[The Owl]

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ANYTHING with SCOOPED MIDS! :earl:

AMEN BROTHER!!!

Yngvie Malmsteen irritates the crap out of me in general too.

Al Di Meola with his warp-speed typewriter click-clack wankery :thumbsdow :bs2:

Steve Howe on Yes's "Relayer" album, great tunes but MY GOD, that tone of his would drill holes in your head, a Telecaster with the treble full blast! :saeek:

Darryl Steurmer on the old Jean Luc Ponty albums. The dude can play but man that sound has got to go (a horrible clanky solid-state tone with the messiest, most horrid odd-harmonic distortion).

 

[Hot _Grits]

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Actually, seeing Yngwie on the G3 tour showed me just how cool his tone is. Much thinner than Satch and Vai, not all gooped up with distortion. Very Very nice.

Yeah. There is much to laugh about concerning Yngwie, but his tone is no laughing matter. I saw him live, and his tone was killer.

 

[B2D]

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Anything that Korn or Slipknot crank out... talk about a wall of flanged mud-farts!

Early Eric Claptons solo tones i.e. "White Room"

Early Jimmy Page sloppy solo tones

Randy Rhoads... Altecs and DiMarzios do NOT go with Marshall Plexis!

Anything with excessively fizzy highs or nasal mids. Lots of hair-metal bands (read: Poison and LA Guns) were guilty of this.

John Petrucci's live tones, very one-dimensional.

That nasal 70's rock tone that sounds like a cross between a wasp in a jam jar and a chicken gobbling. Sweet Home Alabama is a great tune but the solo tone is EEESH. It's like a mullet with a speaker!

Choruses and Flangers with rate AND depth turned up bug me. I like that Uni-vibe leslie sound but was never a fan of vibrato pedals.

I hear lots of people that get good tone with Vintage 30 speakers and lotsa people like 'em but I can't stand them when I use them for some reason.

 

[JOLLY]

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I've never understood why everyone's so smitten over Brian May's and Carlos Santanna's tones.

 

[darkshadow54321]

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OK....... I never thought this thread would be so popular!!!!!!!

Here are a couple more of mine...

Van Halen soloing tone on Eruption (don't flame me!!! The rhythm tone is cool but when he plays on those upper frets yikes!!!)

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Gary Moore's bridge tone on Blues Alive CD... Neck tone rocks though!!!!! WOWA!

Brian May......... Best tone he ever got was using a tele... :fing25:

 

[Benjy_26]

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It's like a mullet with a speaker!

:laugh2: ROFLMAO Gold baby, GOLD!! :laugh2:

 

[The Owl]

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I liked Jimi's tone on Machine Gun...but I prefer his studio tone to his live tone more often than not. Truthfully, I didn't like Band of Gypsies. I thought Billy Cox and Buddy Miles weren't the right players for Jimi. Just not talented, imaginative and rock n roll enough. I liked Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell better. And Jack Cassidy! I thought Jack Cassidy was maybe the best bass player Hendrix ever recorded with...wish they'd done more together.

I usually thought Jimi sounded like he was struggling live...between being out of tune half the time and having to play with musicians with less than half of his vision and imagination and rythymic flexibility, I thought he often sounded kind of stiff and sloppy.

That said, Jimi's tones on Are You Experienced, Axis and Electric Ladyland are sensational. Tho I have to say that I think SRV often got a better "Hendrix tone" than Hendrix...even tho Hendrix was the visionary and more creative musician.

Lew

Hear Hear!!!

Man, I wish Jack Cassidy was playing with Jimi onstage, that would've been so GREAT! Jack is quite underappreciated in the realm of rock bass playing and that's a danged shame. One no less than virtuoso Anthony Jackson cited Jack as a very important early influence on his playing.

Definitely agree with you on Band of Gypsies, at least as far as Buddy Miles goes, I HATED his drumming so bad, the guy was so limited, heavy-handed and just plain BLOODY AWFUL! The unfortunate thing was, at the time, Jimi was under a lot of pressure to put together an all-black band in a hurry, a no-win for Jimi artistically speaking. Still, he made the best of it and it's Jimi's playing and brilliance that makes that Band of Gypsies album worth listening to and somehow I can look past Buddy Miles' awfulness. Mitch Mitchell was DA MAN!!!!! If only Jimi could've gotten Tony Williams to play with him, now THAT would've been devastatingly brilliant (check out the Tony Williams Lifetime albums from that time, "Emergency" and "Turn It Over" and you'll see what I'm pointing at).

 

[jimmy]

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I hate the tone on Metallica's Ride The lightning album; it sounds to brittle and thin.

I Have never liked Dimebag's tone on reinventing the steel, He should have just stayed with his Fuman PQ-3's. I think his best tones are on the CFH album and their Live album.

I dont really like Paul Gilbert's Laney Amp tone, his tone when he was using the ADA Preamp was sick, though.

 

[strat_master]

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i dislike metallica's tone
I dislike Zakk Wyldes EMG tone to me it sounds like dying animals being flogged and stabbed but they just don't die.