Those watershed moments for tone you discovered.

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First Boston album
Vai's 'Passion and Warfare'
Machine Head's 'Burn My Eyes'
Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry
Derek Trucks tones
Govan's tones - Aristocrats debut

These days for me it's more about everything else making the guitars sound huge, rather than just the guitars themselves... if that makes any sense.

edit: Oops, forgot one.... Steve Salas tone on Sass Jordan's 'Rats' album.
 
Killswitch Engage has awesome guitar sounds
Metallica's "Black Album"
Anthrax "Among the Living"
Kiss It Goodbye "She Loves me, she loves me not"
Dillinger Escape Plan "Miss Machine"
Any AC/DC
 
All very different types of tone but it is what pulled me to it. Kind of a list by change of interests - probably too long haha.

Foreigner - Juke Box Hero
ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin
AC/DC - For Those About To Rock
Judas Priest - Victim Of Changes
Van Halen - Where Have All The Good Times Gone
Led Zeppelin - You Shook Me
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
Eagles - Hotel California
Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon
Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane
Def Leppard - Rock of Ages
Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil
George Lynch (Dokken) - Unchain The Night
Ratt - Round And Round
Grim Reaper - Final Scream
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
Iron Maiden - The Trooper
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin
Whitesnake - Still of the Night
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Babies
Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
Fates Warning - Through Different Eyes
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Testament - Practice What You Preach
Dream Theater - Pull Me Under
Lynch Mob - Tangled In The Web
Testament - Souls of Black
Flotsam and Jetsam - No Place For Disgrace
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Megadeth - Holy Wars
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Slayer - South Of Heaven
Ministry - New World Order
Machine Head - Old
Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction
Alice In Chains - Dirt
Soundgarden - Outshined
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Temple Of The Dog - Reach Down
Tool - Prison Sex
Sevendust - Denial
Disturbed - Down With The Sickness
Korn - A.D.I.D.A.S.
Sevendust - Bitch
Sevendust - Waffle
Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People
Slipknot - Wait And Bleed
System Of A Down - Sugar
Rage Against the Machine - Killing In The Name
Deftones - Passenger
Chevelle - The Red
Alter Bridge – Find the Real
As I Lay Dying - Through Struggle
August Burns Red - Composure
Machine Head- Halo
Meshuggah - Dancers To A Discordant System
Mastodon - Oblivion
Steel Panther - Death to All But Metal
Killswitch Engage - Starting Over
Textures - Messengers
Karnivool - All I Know
Periphery - Icarus Lives!
The Omega Experiment - Karma
Katatonia - Deliberation
Pain of Salvation - Linoleum
TesseracT - Concealing Fate
The Omega Experiment - Gift
Myrath - Merciless Times
Katatonia - Dead Letters
Intervals - Moment Marauder
Black Tora - The Rocker

Long list I know... but a decent but incomplete trail of how different guitar players and sounds have grabbed my attention over the years
 
Accept - balls to the wall was probably the first tone I heard that actually made me want a guitar tone then RATT - lay it down helped me focus on getting a tone (not that I have that tone :lol: :LOL: )

Now my tone is closest to lynch mob - for a million years if I had to compare

I guess for me my real watershed moment came when a fellow guitarist asked me what tone I was after ... to which I said I have no idea because no matter what I play through I sound like me. From that moment I have bought gear that gets me to the tone I think makes me sound best to me, and I completely LOVE the tone I have right now :rock:
 
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