Your guilty pleasure guitar tones

[PFDarkside]

What are your guilty pleasure guitar tones? They came from genres/bands/songs that are questionable but are so much fun to play.

Mine is the late 90’s/early 00’s Nu-Metal/Alternative Metal Drop-C Les Paul into a Dual Rectifier sound.
Godsmack, Disturbed, Saliva, etc. Big thick tones with single finger power chord riffs down in C, lots of fun. Not exactly saying much musically though. I think as the 2000’s progressed most moved on to more modded Marshall tones.

What are yours? I think I’m going to fire it up later today for some Drop C chunking.

 

[NegativeEase]

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There is tone in Nu -Metal? :lmao:

 

[Chistopher]

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Some times I wake up in my bed laying next to the nastiest, grittiest buzzsaw punk tone imaginable; right then and there I know a night of good times and bad decisions was had the previous evening.

 

[Driver Blues]

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A friend of mine- a big EVH buff- stopped over at my house recently and tried playing Dance The Night Away through my JC-120 and MXR Univibe on my Danelectro 12SDC. It became this beautiful tropical sounding version if what it once was. Throw in the fact that I was playing the rythmn on my Taylor, and it was almost worth recording. If I can get a steel drum player and a more intricate bass line, I think I will actually record it.

 

[Archer250]

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Never did like those Rectifier tones.

In fact I hated the Mesa Rectifier too. Now the Mark series... THAT'S a whole 'nother story.

I've always thought late 2000s and early 2010s pop rock bands were corny, but their guitars sounded real sweet.

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[Demanic]

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Anything with thick creamy mids. Not.

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[ehdwuld]

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All those suspended chords from the late 90s soft pop college tunes
Duncan Sheik's " Barely Breathing " comes to mind
But you know the genre

When I'm alone at the house I nerd out

 

[BlueStrings]

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Man, I passed my early guitar days tuning to D and playing wannabe metal.
That time is past, but every once in a while I will strike a chord and feel the urge to go into chugging madness.
It never leaves you man.

 

[Diego]

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Metallica's And Justice For All. I'd love to be able to nail that tone, and never ever use with it a band.
Only to play along with that album until I knock myself out.

 

[Dave Locher]

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Squeaky squeaky clean, on the neck pickup. I mean full and loud with ZERO breakup. Then I play a bunch of twangy stuff with a light touch.
No one but me has ever heard me play that music or with that tone. I spent 1985-2000 playing various permutations of punk, alternative, hard rock, industrial, and trashabilly. I would get bored after one song live. But in my basement all alone it can entertain me for an hour or two.

 

[chadd]

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A D18 with just a little reverb and delay for ambience

 

[80's_Metal]

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ROOTS! BLOODY ROOTS!

 

[allbutromeo]

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80s Hair Metal. I grew up mostly in the 90s when that was widely mocked and looked down on

 

[Mincer]

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Late 70s Al Di Meola compressed Ovation. Love it!

 

[Demanic]

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Late 70s Al Di Meola compressed Ovation. Love it!

How could anyone ever feel guilty about liking this tone?

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[NecroPolo]

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Reamping synths, Nintendo Gameboy and Commodore 64 through a driven half-stack.

 

[TVFV]

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Third Eye Blind's first two albums quite honestly have some of my favorite guitar tones.

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[Gtrjunior]

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Third Eye Blind's first two albums quite honestly have some of my favorite guitar tones.

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Not just guitar tones but everything on those albums sounds top notch.
Whoever mixed and mastered those albums did an amazing job.

 

[Gtrjunior]

Re: Your guilty pleasure guitar tones

Late 70s Al Di Meola compressed Ovation. Love it!

How could anyone ever feel guilty about liking this tone?

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Whenever I hear that Ovation tone it sounds like a child’s plastic guitar with those plastic strings.
I can’t stand that tone. Lol

 

[TVFV]

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Not just guitar tones but everything on those albums sounds top notch.
Whoever mixed and mastered those albums did an amazing job.

Their producer was Eric Valentine. He deserves a lot credit for their success because they never sounded that great live. That's mostly due to how much layering and overdubbing there was one those albums. One their songs called "The Background" I believe had sixteen separate tracks of just guitar parts.

On a side note, their original guitarist Kevin Cadogan, did a podcast awhile back where he talked about writing process on those first two albums. It's called No Guitar is Safe with Jude Gold.



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