Your Holy Tone?

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Angus and Malcom on highway to hell. That is just 'the' hard rock sound. Just sounds so hard, agressive, in your face but so little distortion. I just love the sound of it all.

No ones mentioned Jeff Beck's later work from Flash onwards, especially on Guitar shop and Roger Waters' Amused to Death. Beck just completly changed the way he played and just the size of the sound he produces is amazing.
 
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Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple Machine Head, DIO-era Rainbow)
Just perfect

Thin Lizzy (Jailbreak-Live And Dangerous)
That twin guitar attack is super.

Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
Yeah, I know it's a Telly, but LP does it at least as well, with more attitude.

DIO (Vivian Campbell)
That teen had a hellable great 80's tone, you love it for a reason, AlexH :D

Randy Rhoads (Ozzy Osbourne)
On all of the Ozzy albums (Blizzard of, Diary, Tribute) Randy has great tone (and GREAT playing, too, BTW).

Eddie Van Halen (Van Halen I)
I guess someone else likes his tone, too.

Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath, esp. Heaven & Hell)
Iommi has one of the great heavy tones, it's heavy in all the meanings of the word.

Yngwie J Malmsteen (1st three albums)
Strat, od, plexi

Jimi Hendrix
Well, not so much, but that Strat thru fuzz thru marshall tone is great for rocking.

AC/DC
Well, again Marshall's.

George Lynch on the first Dokken albums
Read the AC/DC part.

Gary Moore
LP>Marshall

Brian May should too be on this list, but his tone is SO unique that it's impossible to copy (like Van Halen's or Blackmores wouldn't be).

So, you might guess by now that I like Marshall. Although May played thru Vox, and Page through Supro and Orange, alhough as well through Marshall.
E: I didn't even notice that the post became this long.
 
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I'm on board with all the Page, Blackmore, Young and I'll add Pat Travers, Andy Summers, James Honeyman-Scott, Robbie McIntosh, and Johnny Marr. And any guitar produced by John Leventhal, Jon Brion, and T-Bone Burnett.

But if I could get one tone in the world, it would be Terry Kath's from Chicago at Carnegie Hall.
 
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Jimbojsr said:
<Devil's Advocate>Then again, why should that matter? We're talking about the tone that inspired us, not the playing.... I'd probably rather have a tone heard on Definitely Maybe or Morning Glory than any Radiohead album (though Jonny's talent would be rather nice!!!) </Devil's Advocate>
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Fair enough, everyone's got their preferences. There's just something raw that I love about those Bends tones. To me, the Oasis sound is more run-of-the-mill.

There's no need to even argue gear/hands right now, as I really like the responses this thread generated (I like to check out new ear candy); however, with most (if not all) of these classic tones and recordings that people have suggested, the way the guitar was played and what was actually played is inherently linked to the tone and the overall "this is special" vibe produced.

UK Ant: ABSOLUTELY! I forgot all about Jeff Beck, which is inexcusable as he's in my top three. "Where Were You" off Guitar Shop is just haunting.. beautiful. Also really like the wiry tones on "Behind the Veil", as well as the tones he gets in concert for "A Day in The Life".
 
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Uk Ant said:
No ones mentioned Jeff Beck's later work from Flash onwards, especially on Guitar shop and Roger Waters' Amused to Death. Beck just completly changed the way he played and just the size of the sound he produces is amazing.
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Jeff's more fluid sounding Strat lead sound from Flash, especially on People Get Ready, as well as the crunchier rhythm sounds off of Guitar Shop, is my personal definition of what an overdriven Strat should sound like. This video is what I want my Strat to sound like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toMTAHsz26I

For lighter-gain Strat tones, Rory Gallagher, Clapton, and Knopfler of course are the kings.

Knopfler's cleans on anything is perfect, the Strat tone from Sultans of Swing, and the sound of his Les Paul on 5:15 AM.

Sticking with single coils, Roy Buchanan and Rory Gallagher have some of my favorite Tele tones. The sound of a Tele through a Vox or later Tweed Fender is my favorite Tele sound.

Moving into humbuckers, Clapton's lead tone from the Bluesbreakers and Fresh Cream is very nice, as well as his rhythm tone from Wheels of Fire. That singing woman tone on the neck pickup is one of my favorite tones to use. Paul Kossoff had a wonderful rhythm and lead tone as well.

Scott Gorham's and Brian Robertson's tones off of Live and Dangerous are great as well. The highest gain humbucker tone I like is Tony Iommi's current sound, and then from there I work downwards. Iron Maiden on Live After Death had some great tones. Ideally though, a Thin Lizzy-like lead tone with some Clapton woman tone thrown in, a Clapton in Cream/Kossoff in Free rhythm sound, as well as a Knopfler-esque clean tone, would make my ideal Les Paul.

Something that captured the Jeff Beck lead and rhythm tones, the Clapton/Gallagher in-between distorted sound, and the Knopfler cleans would make my ideal Strat.
 
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Paul Kossof with Free - his LP just sings.

I also really love Mike Bloomfield's tone on the first two Paul Butterfield Blues Band albums.
 
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KGMESSIER said:
While we're on the topic of Jonny Greenwood, check out his very cool, wah-esque sound on "Lucky," off OK Computer. It's achieved with a homemade tremolo pedal going into an envelope filter, along with some phasing.

That's a great tone/effect. Inventive and inspiring.

- Keith
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I saw Greenwood live with Thom Yorke at a small gig last year - 500 or so people - and his tone was amazing. Just him and Yorke doing 'There There' and 'Paranoid Android' with Thom on acoustic and Johnny on Tele - on both songs, when it's time to let rip he just went for it...it was so powerful you almost thought that the wghole band was playing.
 
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For cleans - it's SRV on Lenny and Mark Knopfler on Sultans of Swing.

Driven sounds: For solos - something between Van Halen on Eruption and Albert Collins... for rhythm Blackmore and Van Halen are where it's at for me...
 
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JohnnyGuitar said:
For cleans - it's SRV on Lenny and Mark Knopfler on Sultans of Swing.

Driven sounds: For solos - something between Van Halen on Eruption and Albert Collins... for rhythm Blackmore and Van Halen are where it's at for me...
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Are there any tones you and I don't agree on?!? :D
 
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One more plug for Steve Morse . He has a grocery list of tones.

Robben Ford: Lots of bark to it. That is one tone I've strived for but with the top rolled off a little bit. I use a JB / alder strat / Rivera (Marshal plexi).

Jimi: Castles Made of Sand, Wind Cries Mary, Foxy Lady for SC fuzz!

SRV: driven tones

Mick Ralphs: To me this IS classic rock.
 
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