5 best Holy grail tones

[TX6Strings]

AIC - Dirt
Candlebox - Candlebox
AC/DC - Back In Black
SRV - InStep
EVH - Early Stuff

 

[bigangryguitar]

AIC - Dirt
Candlebox - Candlebox
AC/DC - Back In Black
SRV - InStep
EVH - Early Stuff

Great list! That Candlebox record has killer tone on it, I almost forgot how sweet it was.

 

[Atropos_Project]

Steve Salas - Rats (Sass Jordan)
Adam Jones - Tool (live tone)
Ty Tabor - Kings X Dogman disc

Not 5, but eh.

 

[PaulyPanacea]

Slash- AFD
AC/DC- Back in Black
Tool- Aenima
AIC- Dirt
Beatles - any (gotta have some clean tones )

 

[Superunknown]

Doug Aldrich - Dio(Live Record)
John Sykes - Blue Murder
EVH - VH1 & 1984
Angus - Back in Black
EJ - Ah Via Musicom
Yngwie - Live in Leningrad
Lynch - ULAK
Gary Moore - Anything

 

[controlled_voltage]

uli-earthquake/polar nights [live tokyo tapes]
metallica-m.o.p
hendrix-voodoo child
evh-1/fair warning
holdsworth-metal fatigue[solid state and i don't care ;-)

 

[tonmazz]

Sykes - Whitesnake and Blue Murder
Rober Plant Guitarist? - 29 palms, Big Log, etc.
Jeff Scott Soto Guitarist? - I want it all cover - Below

 

[Ventura]

Schenker/Jabs, earlier Scorpions (circa Lovedrive era)
Angus & Malcolm Young, Back In Black
Adam Jones, circa Lateralus (Triad to me just pounds with sick Jonez Toanz)
Steph Carpenter
Frusciante, he's got gobs of different tones and they're all sweet and perfect for the music being played

There's a shitload more, I mean, haven't even touched on the classical cats, or Zappa, or session players, or Page, or Blackmore, or Clapton circa Cream, or Frampton, or Fripp, or Cantrell, or Slash, or....

V.

 

[vultures]

In Flames - Colony
Dark Tranquility - Fiction
Rhapsody - Anything
Unearth - The Oncoming Storm
Receiving End of Sirens - both albums, but their last is a masterpiece

 

[Anonymous]

EVH - Van Halen II
EVH - Fair Warning
EVH - Van Halen I
Lynch - Under Lock and Key
Joe Holmes - Live with Ozzy at Ozzfest

Steve

 

[Juggernaut]

Dimebag - Pantera - A Vulgar Display Of Power
Gary Holt - Exodus - Tempo of the Damned / Exhibit A & B
Adam Jones - TOOL - Lateralus, 10,000 days
Scott Ian - Anthrax/SOD - Among the Living, Speak English or Die
James Hetfield - Metallica - Master of Puppets, Black

 

[Bronco]

Great list! That Candlebox record has killer tone on it, I almost forgot how sweet it was.

Yeah agree...not in my top five, but killer for sure. Anyone know what he used on that album?

 

[sandman]

EVH - Van Halen II
EVH - Fair Warning
EVH - Van Halen I
Lynch - Under Lock and Key
Joe Holmes - Live with Ozzy at Ozzfest

Steve

I saw Joe Holmes live with Ozzy once...he had great tone !

 

[thenine]

Hoffmann Balls to the Wall

 

[Joeytpg]

In no particular order:

-Metallica's Load/Reload
-Metallica's Garage Inc (the new songs)
-Green Day Dookie
-Almost anything from Iced Earth and Jon Schaffer
-Joe Bonamassa The Ballad of John Henry

 

[jkdsteve]

No mention of any of Brian May tones? I know they're very studio crafty with multiple layers but boy does that guy make some sweet noise.

 

[snowdog]

Hmm. If I could have a 5 button footswitch with my 5 favorite tones on there, here's what it would be.


1. Hetfield's Mark IIC crunch from Master Of Puppets
2. Blackmore's lead sound from Strange Kind of Woman, Live version from Made In Japan
3. Gary Moores live sound from One Night In Dublin DVD
4. Accept's massive distortion from Balls to the Wall
5. John Sykes' super thick Mesa/Boogie sounds from Screaming Blue Murder Live In Japan

 

[lester]

Some lead tones-

Hendrix-Machine Gun
Holdsworth -Devil take the Hindmost
Uli Jon Roth-Hiroshima
Jeff Beck-Two Rivers
dig some Yngwie vibrato-Black Star

 

[Neeklaus]

In Flames - Colony
Dark Tranquility - Fiction
Rhapsody - Anything
Unearth - The Oncoming Storm
Receiving End of Sirens - both albums, but their last is a masterpiece

OHHHHHHHHH I forgot about The Oncoming Storm. That's definitely up there for me. If I remember correctly pure 5150 bliss.

 

[stephen sawall]

No mention of any of Brian May tones? I know they're very studio crafty with multiple layers but boy does that guy make some sweet noise.

I was thinking "Death on Two Legs" .... but I was keeping it to five. Really I had more like 10/20 favorites.