Has perfect high gain guitar tone been achieved?

[anomaly]

Perfect tone was achieved back in 1998 with Crowbar's "Odd Fellows Rest" album. Just listen to "Planets Collide" if you don't believe me.

According to Sammy Duet that was a Randall RG100ES into a Mesa OS cab. So yes, it is SS.

 

[BesaMoogie]

I‘m like three boutique amps and two custom guitars away to achieve the perfect high gain tone

 

[CrystalSky]

Yes, back in 1988 on AJFA

 

[rsm]

What’s the new modern leading tone of today ?

 

[rsm]

I have categories of tones: early '60s jangle and chime; '60s psychedelic; '70s hard rock / early metal; '80s new wave; hair metal; thrash; prog, death; fusion.

I usually have a few tones in each category; some are just slight variations of others;

for some, I have amps, preamps, cabs; but these days most of these tones I use my guitar software plugins.

 

[Racerxrated]

I‘m like three boutique amps and two custom guitars away to achieve the perfect high gain tone

Aren't we all?!?

Lots of great examples in this thread. I'd add, Adam Jones tone on 10,000 days-The Pot- as a great tone, that took like 8 amps to get

My fav Marshall tone is Sykes Bad Boy Live. Listen to the beginning of Cold Sweat.
Perfect.