holdsworth/johnson/lane lead tone

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legato lead sound, round horn attack, light low action, delay is important, also lots of gain without grindy distortion artifacts

carol ann od2r may have been my best amp to date for this sound

your formula?
 
turn all the bass off
treble way down
pump the mids
low output pickups
be born with legendary talent
 
i love shawn's tone because it had the most rock attack of the three, although the effects use was less sophisticated than the other guys. holdsworth has killer dynamic envelope-when he plays more flowing it's round and liquid sounding, but he can bring out some mettalic ping too just by changing his attack, and his long tones are so huge and reedy!
ej probably has the most majestic tone of the 3, just slayed me on ah via tour and when he is on, he plays this angry precise way that grabs you by the face.
 
I love EJ's tone. Never really cared for Holdsworth's tone, and pretty much thought Shawn Lane's tone sucked. His playing was off the chart, but his tone needed a lot of help imo.
 
EJ has the note selection. He hears these cool melodies in his head and then squeezes them out of the fretboard. Think Cliffs. I don't care what gear, whatever other thing money can buy, you gotta hear that in your head and play it. It just seems like he could play a Line 6 or a Rhodes Collosus... When he bends that opening note and lets that first lick waterfall down the neck.... It's gonna sound like EJ. And anybody that likes good guitar says.... Damn he's good.

It sounds like edge of break up to moderate distortion dry, and some delay and verb wet. Lots of inflection in the playing.
 
im telling you guys i was blown away by his live tone when i heard him at namm.
prior to that i didnt think much of his tone at all, but that night he was playing a valley arts strat and his tone was never better.

huge woodsy and the delay was perfect.
 
shawn mentioned using 4 amps with a boss dd-2 delaying each amp slightly for a quadraphonic sound.
i went out and bought a dd-2 based on that fact and later found out the chip in that box is the same as the delay chips in the roland sde-3000

every yt clip i've heard of his has just a so-so core guitar tone and often really washy delay, but that valley arts strat was the one that really made his tone come alive.

holdsworth has ups and downs tone wise. loved his secrets tour tone. headless gtr, line booster, tc parametric eq, recto juice extracted/reamped through 295, and his 8 delays, all tweaked to perfection.

ej/ah via rig = win!
 
Rezamatix":14jcswjy said:
Shawn Lane is just the best all time shredder ever. Every time he blows me away...totally.
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Best Shredder? I call, and raise you Jason Becker.
 
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