5 best Holy grail tones

[zewango]

Blues Saraceno - Plaid

 

[70strathead]

Hendrix - Live in Winterland
Uli Jon Roth/ealy scorps - everything up to Beyond the Astral Skies
Blackmore - Strange Kind of Woman ( made in Japan)
Van Halen - I through Diver Down
Eric Johnson - early stuff ( Desert Rose, Bristol Shore)

Alternates:
Yngwie - Marching Out
Joe Holmes/Tarif - live at the roxy in the 80's
George Lynch/Dokken - BFTA
MSG - 1st album
Kingx - Dogman

 

[locoed]

Gary Holt,last 5 CD's=Exodus
Adam Jones,everything!
Coroner,Grin CD very little gain for a prog speed band.
Milie Petrozza,Kreator,Extreme Aggression CD
Hetfield when using a Boogie.

However i do love Dime,but that's his tone and his tone alone.

 

[ttosh]

More than 5, but my all time faves:

Lynch : Under Lock and Key and Back for the Attack albums
Accept : Balls to the Wall song
AC DC : Back in Black album
Crue : Dr Feelgood song
Malmsteen : Rising force album
Steve Stevens : Memory Crash
Doug Aldrich : Dio Live
Zakk Wylde : No more tears album
Brad Paidley : American Saturday Night
Bride : Snakes in the playground album
Curt Anderson : For some time now
Def Leppard : High n Dry
Iron Maiden : Powerslave
Saigon Kick : Peppermint Tribe
Ritchie Kotzen : Into the black

That is all for now and in no specific order, love them all!!

 

[xXxGhotimanxXx]

Tool - Undertow
Tool - Aenima
Tool - Salival
Tool - Lateralus
Tool - 10,000 Days

Adam Jones, guitarist for Tool, has a very unique tone. Despite that fact that his gear is relatively simple and well documented on the net...his tone is illusive. Must be in the fingers mostly.

J

+1.. Love Adams tone live and on records..

The tone he has on Sober is what first got me into these guys..
The songs are so layered, even after listening to them for years I still hear parts I hadn't heard before all the time.

+1 on the live tone. I've been chasing that lately....it's absolutely phenomenal. When doing covers, I Used to have different parameters set up for each album; but since going for his live tone, I've noticed that it fits well on top of every album. Interesting, I think.
I agree, that's one of the things that I love about Tool...no matter how much you listen, there's always more.

J

 

[Jeff Hilligan]

Fair Warning
Gretchen goes to Nebraska
Blue Murder
Thunder in the East

 

[RockNRun]

In no particular order + personal favorites from each album...

Michael Lee Firkins - First Album (Rain in the Tunnel)
Lynch - Back For The Attack (Stop Fighting Love)
VH - Early (Ice Cream Man)
Yngwie - Marching Out (Overture 1383)
Nuno - Extreme (All of it) and Pornograffitti (When I'm President)

 

[tonmazz]

Jeff Scott Soto Guitarist? - I want it all cover - Below

That's Howie Simon into his Pod 2.0 into the power section of a backline provided tube head. Crazy. I dig his live tones too and he says the Pod 2.0 and his guitar is all he brings.

Seriously! Man that is killer. Just goes to show you how crazy the tone chase really is. He is a great player.

 

[Ventura]

Tool - Undertow
Tool - Aenima
Tool - Salival
Tool - Lateralus
Tool - 10,000 Days

Adam Jones, guitarist for Tool, has a very unique tone. Despite that fact that his gear is relatively simple and well documented on the net...his tone is illusive. Must be in the fingers mostly.

J

+1.. Love Adams tone live and on records..

The tone he has on Sober is what first got me into these guys..
The songs are so layered, even after listening to them for years I still hear parts I hadn't heard before all the time.

Self admitted Jones Toanz fanboi, right here

V.

 

[thiswaythatway]

How about tones from guy's nobody's heard of?


This guy had a tone live that rivaled anything I've heard. You probably can't tell from this 20 year old video, but i still remember how awesome this guy's tone was. Dave can vouch for me on this one. And you can tell where Zakk Wylde got some of his pentatonic licks from, just listen to 1:14.

 

[Jeff Hilligan]

Jeff Scott Soto Guitarist? - I want it all cover - Below

That's Howie Simon into his Pod 2.0 into the power section of a backline provided tube head. Crazy. I dig his live tones too and he says the Pod 2.0 and his guitar is all he brings.

Seriously! Man that is killer. Just goes to show you how crazy the tone chase really is. He is a great player.

In the infamous words of Ralphy...Oh fudge...who the fuck needs all this expensive shit. That tone kills!

 

[mentoneman]

mike landau-tales from the bulge
vh-old
ej-ah via
srv


5 is a toss up-throw nuno/porno, lynch/sacred groove+live ulak, gary moore/corridors-victims, yngwie/rising force, and sykes/whitesnake in a blender.

acoustic?
i'd take paul clark's petros crown of thorns guitar-far and away the best acoustic guitar i've ever heard-- and marry it to the recording signal chain used on gary morris' "Live" cd.
his soundman engineered the cd, and he was a very cool and talented dude who grew up with scott henderson and had an intellifex in his PA rack he used for vocals!

 

[NewWorldMan]

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?

Not sure if he used it on the album, but he did use the Rectos and Les Paul's on the tour. Here's a Letterman performance back then where his tone is damn close to the album and sounds great using that setup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KjtZFT8TBQ

 

[Mauler]

VH - Fair Warning
Vai - Fire Garden album/96 G3 when he was mainly using Bogners
Satriani - FIABD album
Dream Theater - Scenes/6 Degrees
Liquid Tension Experiment - Live in LA

And honorary mention to Petrucci's tone on Explorers Club - Age of Impact.

 

[tonmazz]

Jeff Scott Soto Guitarist? - I want it all cover - Below

That's Howie Simon into his Pod 2.0 into the power section of a backline provided tube head. Crazy. I dig his live tones too and he says the Pod 2.0 and his guitar is all he brings.

Seriously! Man that is killer. Just goes to show you how crazy the tone chase really is. He is a great player.

In the infamous words of Ralphy...Oh fudge...who the fuck needs all this expensive shit. That tone kills!

Damn straight! I'm down to just your old beat up 2204 with some artie modifications and it is perfect.

 

[Jeff Hilligan]

Jeff Scott Soto Guitarist? - I want it all cover - Below

That's Howie Simon into his Pod 2.0 into the power section of a backline provided tube head. Crazy. I dig his live tones too and he says the Pod 2.0 and his guitar is all he brings.

Seriously! Man that is killer. Just goes to show you how crazy the tone chase really is. He is a great player.

In the infamous words of Ralphy...Oh fudge...who the fuck needs all this expensive shit. That tone kills!

Damn straight! I'm down to just your old beat up 2204 with some artie modifications and it is perfect.

awesome! Gonna snag me a POD 2.0 and run it into my 76 Super lead! Then I am going to tear it up vocally like Soto!

 

[budburst]

1. EVH Fair Warning
2. DeMartini Invasion
3. Lynch T&N
4. Jabs\Schenker Blackout
5. Scholz Boston I&II

Honorable Mention
6.Neil Giraldo...Pat Benatars guitarist Crimes of Passion

 

[MYLILSS]

Sevendust- Animosity and Seasons. They were doing thick and tight heavy ass "djent" tones
before it was even a genre. To this day nothing sounds like the guitars on Animosity.

i totally agree with the above statement and would also like to add sevendust's new album cold day memory to the mix for killer guitar tones.

the only others that come to mind are van halen's F.U.C.K album, and balance

 

[Badronald]

Jake E Lee - Badlands
SRV - Saw him live. Sick.
Yngwie - Rising Force
Malcom/Angus - Back in Black
EVH - Fair Warning

KK Downing / Glen Tipton - Screaming For Vengeance
EJ
James Hetfield - Lightning, Puppets, Kill Em
Dave Mustaine - So Far So Good - Mary Jane

Tom Pettys Telecaster/Marshall tone live

Dave Murray / Adrian Smith - Powerslave

The list goes on.

 

[petejt]

AC/DC- Angus and Malcolm Young: TNT (1975)
Mercyful Fate- Hank Schermann & Michael Denner: Don't Break the Oath (1984)
The Police- Andy Summers: Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)
Metallica- James Hetfield: The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-revisited (1987)
Pink Floyd- David Gilmour: Is there anybody out there? The Wall live 1980-1981 (1981)