What are your top 5 "Grail" tones?

[Zarg]

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Oh hell yeah! That album is my favorite In Flames album. First album I ever heard with them, and the only one I keep coming back to.

I remember putting on "Soundtrack to your escape" when that came out. I thought I had the wrong disc. It didn't seem like the same band. (From Whoracle to Soundtrack was quite the leap...)

yes, their sound has really changed a lot over the years... a lot of hate, but I love most of their work, although their old stuff is my favorite (especially whoracle)

 

[IMENATOR]

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Some great suggestions here...apparently I have different ideas of what great tones are, or haven't been exposed to a lot of heavier music. I will add 1 heavier tone, though...Dave Murray's neck solo tone is wonderful (where did that go over the years?).

I don't know why I forgot to mention this one. Looking for a better lead neck tone was the reason I started to try Seymour Duncan, I tried the hot rails thinking on Dave Murray but then I realized it really was not for me, then tried the jazz which is great but I eventually realized I like single coils better than humbuckers for neck lead. I have to say his neck solo really shined in the current tour.

 

[JOLLY]

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Oh yeah, I forgot...........The lead tone in this, and of course the playing from Gary Moore always blows me away.

 

[Progbusters]

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I like the warm twin guitar cranked sounds of Skeletonwitch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgHDonZa7ws
the audio not so good in this new video tho

duncan blog about them http://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/backstage-pass/talking-tone-with-skeletonwitch

black winters!

 

[idsnowdog]

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Accept - Metal Heart
Van Halen - II
Alice In Chains - Facelift
Scorpions - Blackout
Mercyful Fate - In The Shadows
Megadeath - Peace Sells

 

[Aceman]

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Way interesting thread….

 

[dystrust]

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Studio:
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Megadeth - Youthanasia
Alice in Chains - We Die Young EP
Candlebox - Candlebox

Live:
Rush - All the World's a Stage
Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute
Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won

 

[80's_Metal]

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Metal Church - The Dark "turnin up that chainsaw sound"
ACCEPT - Balls to the Wall album
Scorpions - Lovedrive album
Ozzy/Randy Rhoads - Diary Album
Grim Reaper - See You In Hell album
Annihilator - Alice in Hell album
Judas Priest - Defenders album
Dio - Last in Line Album
and the most raw wicked tone, HELLHAMMER - Apocalyptic Raids



new stuff:
Lamb of God
Kreator
Slayer
Machine Head
Exodus
Killswitch Engage

 

[Diego]

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Ty Tabor from King's X in the "Dogman" album.
Amazing rhythm tone, chunky as hell. My favorite rhythm tone ever.

Mastodon in "Crack the Skye".
Lots of "unusual" tones for a Metal album, it's layered as hell and very diverse overall, but it has some sweet fuzzy, univibe-y lead tones that make me horny and drool. :cool3:

James & Kirk at "Load".
Unreal tones all over that album.

Ritchie Blackmore in the "Live in Paris 1975" Deep Purple album.
Oh my God. Best distorted Strat tone ever:



Marty Friedman's lead tone in Megadeth's "Rust in Peace" album.
Pure Seymour Duncan JB bliss in the hands of the best lead player in the history of Metal.

 

[DonP]

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All good.

Maiden, Priest, Metallica, AC/DC, Dio (Dream Evil had some good tones), Lynch.

I'll add Criss Olivia from Savatage. I like the earlier stuff with a "wall of sound" like Sirens, Dungeon, Hall and Power.

 

[Chickenwings]

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tele into a twin
335 into a deluxe reverb
strat via a fuzzface into a jtm
330 into a 5e3
gretsch into an ac30

 

[chadd]

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ZAkk on No More Tears - pooh, that's an effing awesome one. Great solo period.

A buddy's band used to cover that one and somehow used to sound even better than the original. At least, they sounded better live than Zakk did.

 

[Ironikaika]

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Jake E Lee-Badlands (debut)
Ty Tabor on Dogman
Guthrie Govan-Eric
EVH-Push Comes to Shove
Steve Lukather (Los Lobotomys) Never Walk Alone

Live stuff
Pat Travers-Go For What You Know
Michael Schenker's cocked wah on Strangers.
Guthrie Govan-Cave Dweller (The Aristocrats)

Lots of great mentions in this thread.

 

[chadd]

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Kim Thayil on just about any recording but Badmotorfinger and Superunknown were stellar.
Almost anything Jerry Cantrell has ever released, but Them Bones and We Die Young are at the top
John Petrucci's tones on Images and Words were incredible. Metropolis and Pull Me Under had just about everything in there too.

 

[Progbusters]

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George Lynch with his harmonics and hollow sound. also the neck pickup lower gain here.

 

[Progbusters]

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#3. The thick warm sounds of Akio Shimizu of Anthem

 

[marcello252]

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Mine are

#1 Jimi Hendrix tone from 'Jimi Plays Monterey' - top guitar sound EVER to my ear, never heard a better one. And it's a pretty simple rig, a CBS strat with rosewood neck in to a germanium fuzz face, in to a Marshall Super Lead (maybe with 6550 tubes if I remember correctly)

#2 VH1 - I don't have anything else to say about it

#3 The Edge tone from 'Under a blood Red Sky' - ok, this seems a bit odd but that sound is the reason why I took a guitar


I can't classify anything else as my Grail tone, I stay with my 3

 

[Mononoaware]

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Jimi Hendrix -- Machine Gun, either version at Fillmore East. Devastating. But there's a long list of Jimi tones I could put here (Wind Cries Mary, Red House, a specific version of Hear My Train a Comin'/Lonesome Train Blues, Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)), so this is just a placeholder, in a way.

David Gilmour -- Comfortably Numb, both solos. The song that made me want to play electric.

Joe Satriani -- If I Could Fly, solo tone. Bright, vocal, sings.

AC/DC -- Highway to Hell, rhythm. More tweezed-sounding than a lot of Malcom's riffs, this one just nails the vibe like a laserbeam.

Mark Knopfler -- Brothers in Arms, solo tone. Gives me chills without fail.

 

[probo_squad_henry]

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Not a huge Vai fan, but his tone on Passion and Warfare was majestic

 

[Christopher Caruana]

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Studio:
EVH - Van Halen 1 (Ibanez Destroyer)
Slash - Appetite for Destruction
Zakk Wylde - No More Tears
Warren Demartini - Dancing undercover and detonator

Live:
EVH - Live without a net DVD
Doug Aldrich - Whitesnake "live in the still of the night" DVD