Your Holy Tone?

[Diego]

Re: Your Holy Tone?

So many, man...

Ritchie Blackmore's lead tone in Machine Head, particularly on Highway Star.

Ritchie Blackmore's rhythm tone in Burn.

Mark Knopfler's tone in Brother in Arms. Unbelievable!

James Hetfield's tone in Load. Best hard rock rhythm tone I've ever heard!

Steve Hackett's lead tone in Firth of Fifth.

EVH's tone in Unchained.

Brian May's tone. Any album, any song.

 

[Ocifer]

Re: Your Holy Tone?

The P90 tone that Gilmour gets on "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2" is also something to aspire to. Also, like Chilean Guy pointed out, the tone that Mark Knopfler gets from his LP with p90s on Brothers in Arms... that tone is alive and breathing.

 

[Pink Unicorn Horsey]

Re: Your Holy Tone?

The P90 tone that Gilmour gets on "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2" is also something to aspire to.

You mean the solo? He plays that on a P-90? I didn't know that. Cool!

 

[Ocifer]

Re: Your Holy Tone?

You mean the solo? He plays that on a P-90? I didn't know that. Cool!

Yeah, according to an article I read. It was online, but an excerpt from an old guitar mag, I believe. It was a Les Paul with P90s, which they recorded direct and then later ran through (don't quote me) a Fender amp.

If anyone knows the article and can give us a more definitive answer that would be great. I'll try to find something.

EDIT:

This one is a Q&A, and if you scroll down there's a question where he's asked if he ever cuts parts directly into the board.
http://www.pinkfloyd-co.com/band/interviews/djg/djg96.html

Not a Fender. Apparently a Mesa. Interesting recording technique is described in the below link.
http://www.thegearpage.net/board/archive/index.php/t-196972.html

I won't vouch for the crediblity of these sources, but I've read a lot of stuff across several forums and been to many links. Most, if not all say he used the LP with soapbars direct into the board.

 

[Richard]

Re: Your Holy Tone?

I love that clean strat tone on Yellow ledbetter.

 

[Empty Pockets]

Re: Your Holy Tone?

Mine's a tone in my head...a tone made by jumping the channels from my 68 Bassman on top of a 1969A 4x12 loaded with vintage 30s, into an Orange AD30 half-stack or maybe a Marshall JMP.

Roar plus crunch, kick'd in yo nuts.

 

[Aceman]

Re: Your Holy Tone?

Don't know that I try to copy the "holy" tones: Hendrix/Wind Cries, Malmsteen/Blackstar, Johnson/Cliffs of, Gilmour/Cmfortably, etc...

A few I would love to "get" but haven't been able to are:
Schon on Journey-Escape
Priest on a number of Screaming tones
Van Halen 1984

 

[Axl H]

Re: Your Holy Tone?

Another hidden gem, Alice Cooper - Poison. What was used on that one?

 

[Sirion]

Re: Your Holy Tone?

Another cool one is Adrian Vandenberg's tones on his first albums, even though the last albums are pretty much shunned, I love how he creates different textures in the music by changing on his amp settings.

 

[JacksonMIA]

Re: Your Holy Tone?

Van Halen's Balance.

 

[uOpt]

Re: Your Holy Tone?

The P90 tone that Gilmour gets on "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2" is also something to aspire to. Also, like Chilean Guy pointed out, the tone that Mark Knopfler gets from his LP with p90s on Brothers in Arms... that tone is alive and breathing.

Gilmour's is his P-90 LP Gold Top that you see him playing even today.

But I thought that Knopfler used a LP standard with humbuckers on BIA. Can anyone confirm or deny?

 

[Ocifer]

Re: Your Holy Tone?

Gilmour's is his P-90 LP Gold Top that you see him playing even today.

But I thought that Knopfler used a LP standard with humbuckers on BIA. Can anyone confirm or deny?

I think it was in a Guitar Techniques feature where BIA was one of the main featured songs. It sounds more single-coil to me, too. I'm pretty sure it's a P90, but if anyone can confirm otherwise...

 

[That90'sGuy]

Re: Your Holy Tone?

I've always been kinda after my own thing, but as far as tone goes... whatever Adam Levine uses with Maroon 5 kills - he simply has one of the best sounding lead tones I've ever heard live. I'm a big Dashboard Confessional fan and Chris always rocked Bogner Shivas so it was no suprise that I ended up gravitating towards them as well.

 

[PLVTONIVS FILIVS]

Re: Your Holy Tone?

Metallica's Kill'em all tone.

 

[Metalblaze]

Re: Your Holy Tone?

Another cool one is Adrian Vandenberg's tones on his first albums, even though the last albums are pretty much shunned, I love how he creates different textures in the music by changing on his amp settings.

Yes, I remember listening to some old Vandenberg songs and his tone was amazing. I don't know from which album though.

 

[Sirion]

Re: Your Holy Tone?

They are all great, in my opinion

 

[MrHeavyMetal]

Re: Your Holy Tone?

Tony Iommi's tone on the Heaven and Hell album and esp the tone on "Mob Rules" song. :headbang:

 

[Pink Unicorn Horsey]

Re: Your Holy Tone?

OMG! I'm such a freakin' idiot for forgetting about Iommi. Gonna go with pretty much any of his heavy rhythm tones from the first four albums. "N.I.B." is a good example.

 

[MrHeavyMetal]

Re: Your Holy Tone?

OMG! I'm such a freakin' idiot for forgetting about Iommi. Gonna go with pretty much any of his heavy rhythm tones from the first four albums. "N.I.B." is a good example.

yeah, I like that kinda muffled fuzzy tone off those 4 albums. I kinda need to have another set of darker preamp tubes for my plexi to get a lot more of that vibe.

 

[uOpt]

Re: Your Holy Tone?

OMG! I'm such a freakin' idiot for forgetting about Iommi. Gonna go with pretty much any of his heavy rhythm tones from the first four albums. "N.I.B." is a good example.

That's his P-90 loaded SG on those first albums.

Never understood why he eventually switched to humbuckers, it made him a little more ordinary.

Proofs the superiority of Blackmore . He stayed single coil no matter how much it hums except for a short period when they had that huge neon Rainbow on stage. I'm sure that thing was FCC approved, BTW