Re: Your Holy Tone?
My perfect tone is one that is bright clear and clean on cleans with good high end and thick tight lows, like a Tele bridge pickup through either a Fender Twin Reverb or a clean plexi or AC-30, sometimes I like the British tone more than the 6L6s, though most of the amps I will own will probably have 6L6s. I like a big crunchy distortion sound, but I like it to still be articulate, and I think a hot single coil with a lot of gain pulls off that balance better than a humbucker, though I do like their tones, it's not in my perfect tone.
It's complicated, but I'll post my dream guitars and amps and you can get an idea of my tonal preferences.
Favourite Guitars:
Fender Telecaster
Fender Jaguar
Fender Stratocaster
Fender Jazzmaster
Gretsch White Falcon
Favourite Amps:
Mesa Roadking
Marshall JVM
Vox AC-30
Fender Bassman (Tweed or Blackface)
Traynor YCV40 (just putting this here cause I own it, love it, and it gets me real close to my ideal tone).
As for other player's tones that I really admire, I REALLY like Ian D'sa's tone (guitarist of Billy Talent) and I also really liked Johnny Ramones tone, perfect for the Ramones sound, had a lot of punk attitude to it. I also really like The Edge's tone and playing style, and drool over most of his rig. John Mayer has also proven to have excellent tonal tastes and I love how bluesy he makes those low output strat pups sound. He more proof that Strats are the best blues guitars!!
