Your favorite guitarist and their guitar TONE

[Ns1]

Who would it be?


For me, Adam Jones > *, but I do love Frusciante's tone(s) and Gilmour's

Barresi explains guitarist Adam Jones' recording setup: ?Adam mainly runs three amps: He has a Marshall that he loves, a Diezel and then he was using a Mesa Boogie at one point. I brought in a Bogner Uberschall head and a Rivera Knucklehead Reverb, and several other things. Then we just experimented with combinations of heads and cabinets until it worked for the song. Most of the 4×12s were Mesa Boogie cabinets, which are superior for their low end, except for the Marshall head, which went through a Marshall cabinet, and the Rivera went through a Rivera cabinet. I usually used stock miking. For me, that's a Shure SM57 and a Sennheiser 421 on every cabinet. The third mic could be anything that I felt the sound needed more of.?

The signal chain for tracking guitar was a bit complex. ?Adam would play into whatever pedals he needed,? Barresi says. ?That signal then went into a Systematic Systems Splitter. Then it would go to between three and five heads. The signal from the heads went to their own individual cabinets. Each cabinet had two or three microphones on it. Then all the microphones came back to the console, and they were blended down as separated for each amp. The Diezel amp went to its own track. The Marshall amp went to its own track. The third track was a blend of the Bogner and the Rivera, or whatever I liked for the song. And that would be one take ? three tracks of guitar.?

how gangster is that.

 

[Nitemare]

Hendrix and Petrucci, not sure what their tones are though

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Hendrix and Petrucci, not sure what their tones are though

I like petrucci but his tone sounds like a MIDI player with distortion.

 

[Platypus]

Too hard to pick one.

Probably Jeff Beck's strat warble, Roy Buchanan's Tele tone (nancy), Duane Allman's Les Paul slide tone and Hendrix's plexi tones.. if I was forced to pick.

 

[nakedfrog]

Probably David Gilmour.
Yet here I am with two double humbucker guitars (though one of them is a coil tap at least). That's okay, I don't play nearly as well as he does anyway

 

[Kirby]

Not sure about favorite guitarist, but for tone probably Croce, Taylor, or Gilmour.

 

[Tooncesthedrivingcat]

buckethead... his lesser known stuff

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Hendrix and Petrucci, not sure what their tones are though

I like petrucci but his tone sounds like a MIDI player with distortion.

Yeah I guess it would be Bluesy with Hendrix and distortion/FX with Petrucci(although not to the point of Frampton effects)

Really too many too pick just one from.

I like the above plus
Prince
Beck
SRV
Iommi
Dimebag
Morello
Santana
Clapton
Page

 

[TestedAcorn]

Jake Cinninger and brendan bayliss together.

 

[buck]

Originally posted by: Nitemare

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: Nitemare
Hendrix and Petrucci, not sure what their tones are though

I like petrucci but his tone sounds like a MIDI player with distortion.

Yeah I guess it would be Bluesy with Hendrix and distortion/FX with Petrucci(although not to the point of Frampton effects)

Really too many too pick just one from.

I like the above plus
Prince
Beck
SRV
Iommi
Dimebag
Morello
Santana
Clapton
Page

I very much like all listed, some more than others, but its all personal preference.

 

[Ika]

Petrucci, love his tone. I have a JSX setting on my amp and it sounds *kinda* like his tone. I'm a horrible guitarist, though, so I probably shouldn't be saying that.

 

[Platypus]

I should include Page's 'too fucked up on heroin so i'll just stab at random pentatonic scale notes' tone too, gotta love how raw/powerful it is despite the slop.

 

[CraKaJaX]

Originally posted by: TestedAcorn
Jake Cinninger and brendan bayliss together.

Nice dude! Glad to see some Umphrey's fans around here.

Too many to choose from really:

SRV's bluesy tone is just awesome.
Clapton's woman tone
Gilmour's tone + his feeling for the guitar during a solo and overall is amazing

 

[imported_Imp]

The Edge

Huge echo-whore, loves to let tones ring. Very rarely does he just scale up and down during a solo. He uses the 'D' chords excessively, yet he manages to change the rthym just enough each time that you can never tell. His playing is very basic once you try it, which is amazing cause it sounds anything but.

 

[PepePeru]

Gilmour
Garcia
Dean Ween

 

[TestedAcorn]

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX

Originally posted by: TestedAcorn
Jake Cinninger and brendan bayliss together.

Nice dude! Glad to see some Umphrey's fans around here.

Too many to choose from really:

SRV's bluesy tone is just awesome.
Clapton's woman tone
Gilmour's tone + his feeling for the guitar during a solo and overall is amazing

Nice I thought me and my friend named "40sTheme" on here were like the only 2. Good to find another Umph fan.

 

[compuwiz1]

Neal Schon

He's on the cover of the November issue of Guitar Player magazine.

 

[CraKaJaX]

Originally posted by: TestedAcorn

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX

Originally posted by: TestedAcorn
Jake Cinninger and brendan bayliss together.

Nice dude! Glad to see some Umphrey's fans around here.

Too many to choose from really:

SRV's bluesy tone is just awesome.
Clapton's woman tone
Gilmour's tone + his feeling for the guitar during a solo and overall is amazing

Nice I thought me and my friend named "40sTheme" on here were like the only 2. Good to find another Umph fan.

I've seen them 3 times now. I might be heading out to Chicago for their 3 day thing for New Year's. Should be a blast. :thumbsup:

 

[ethebubbeth]

Purely on tone, I can't see anybody topping Eric Johnson.

 

[Kirby]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Neal Schon

He's on the cover of the November issue of Guitar Player magazine.

Forgot about him. Schon = :heart:

 

[SphinxnihpS]

I love the sound of Adam Jones' guitar, but I still think it was Paul that provided the mud metal sound we know as Tool. Together, they were grand, but you can't have an Adam Jones solo album. His style requires the modulation of the bass and drums to set it off.

Jimi Hendrix (what a note bender, all sorts of sounds)

Craig Wedren from Shudder to Think. I really like the raspy sound of old Les Pauls.

Grasshopper from Mercury Rev on Boces and Yer Self Is Steam. Nobody else makes a guitar sound like it's going to suck out your soul better than him.

Billy Corgan

Bobby Broom (Chicago Blues/Jazz guy)

"Smokin'" Joe Thomas from Lonnie Walker and Her Big Bad Ass Company Band. This guy is UNREAL. Must be seen to be believed.

Prince The guy is fucking talented period.

G Wizard, nice pickup on Dean Ween!

Also, this is really something that applies far more to Jazz and Blues than rock, doubly so when acoustic.

 

[Ns1]

I love the sound of Adam Jones' guitar, but I still think it was Paul that provided the mud metal sound we know as Tool. Together, they were grand, but you can't have an Adam Jones solo album. His style requires the modulation of the bass and drums to set it off.

I get what your saying, but I can listen to the last note(s) on Lateralus for weeks.

Prince is def a talented mofo, way moreso than his music would suggest.

 

[schizoid77]

SRV, Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Santana...gotta throw in Slash too, though. Love his sound.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Originally posted by: Ns1

I love the sound of Adam Jones' guitar, but I still think it was Paul that provided the mud metal sound we know as Tool. Together, they were grand, but you can't have an Adam Jones solo album. His style requires the modulation of the bass and drums to set it off.

I get what your saying, but I can listen to the last note(s) on Lateralus for weeks.

Prince is def a talented mofo, way moreso than his music would suggest.

Pick up Purple Rain my friend. His music would suggest his music is quite good, imo.

I also get what you're saying about tone. I'm not trying to take the guitarist out of the band. Adam is my favorite too.

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

Originally posted by: Ns1

I love the sound of Adam Jones' guitar, but I still think it was Paul that provided the mud metal sound we know as Tool. Together, they were grand, but you can't have an Adam Jones solo album. His style requires the modulation of the bass and drums to set it off.

I get what your saying, but I can listen to the last note(s) on Lateralus for weeks.

Prince is def a talented mofo, way moreso than his music would suggest.

Pick up Purple Rain my friend. His music would suggest his music is quite good, imo.

I also get what you're saying about tone. I'm not trying to take the guitarist out of the band. Adam is my favorite too.

his music is admittedly not my style.

however the rock n roll hall of fame dedication to 'while my guitar gently weeps' with prince raping the shit out of that telecaster (iirc) is ridiculous.

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