Best Distorted Tone You've Ever Heard???

[TasmanSam]

John petrucci's tone on Black clouds and silver linings, with train of thought a close 2nd.

 

[Bungle]

The dudes from Falconer on their "Northwind" album. I can't explain how crystal clear the leads are.

 

[-One-]

Petrucci's tone on A Nightmare To Remember is mindblowing. Gotta love the tone his JP6 Baritone gets.

 

[The Somberlain]

Ron Asheton of the Stooges or Electic Wizard's

 

[BlackMetalVenom]

Joe Kataldo, (may not be fast, but his tone is amazing and organic) Christian Muenzner on the Epitaph album by Necrophagist, Marco Sfogli, Shawn Lane, (something about it makes me listen to him over and over) the guys from Scale the Summit, Guthrie Govan...
I don't want to go on anymore, but you get the idea.

 

[MFB]

In terms of tight and thick :

Devin Townsend (really like "The New Black"'s tone)
Lamb of God (more so from "Ashes..." onward)

Other general distorted tones I love :

Mastodon
Electric Wizard
Sleep

 

[TruthDose]

Manson's tone on "mOBSCENE" is pretty fucking awesome IMO. Really "metallic" sort of grind which is nice as.


And of course old faithful...


The opening for Ministry's "No Glory" is fucking insane too. I have a thing for high end


ALL of Poweman 5000's stuff has insane guitar/bass mixing too, so while it's probably not my favorite "tone" it's up there as my favorite mixes



Ill Nino have pretty slick tone as well, god damn saturated which is awesome



They may be pretty lae now, but Linkin Park had some pretty fucking awesome tone going...



Stonesour had a couple of pretty amazing tone moments for me too.


Kidneythieves too...



That's all I can think of... Did I mention I like nu-metal tone a whole lot?

EDIT: Thought of more...

Breaking Benjamin's tone on Phobia (specifically "Evil Angel")


Disturbed on "Stupify"


Mushroomhead on most of XIII, but specifically on Becoming Cold


That will do...

Like Nu-Metal eh?

 

[TruthDose]

In terms of tight and thick :

Devin Townsend (really like "The New Black"'s tone)

Townsend's tone on Infinity is godly imo

 

[Variant]

Townsend's tone on Infinity is godly imo

This what I put way back at the beginning of the thread, because it's true.

 

[bioniczero]

As far as straight crushing heaviness - the entirety of the Cover Your Tracks album by Bury Your Dead is just about perfect I think. I loved Petrucci's lead tone on his solo album. As far as tones with less gain, I love the tone on the first couple of Skynyrd albums. It fits so perfectly.

 

[Gitte]

Machine Head's "Ten Ton Hammer" allways kicks every other sound in the balls...
I also love all the guitarsounds on the new Periphery album!
Oh and I forgot D.L.'s (T.A.S.) guitarsound on their split with war from a harlots mouth!! Freaking KillerSound!!!

 

[Jay Jay]

The part where he plays Jetpacks, and when he talks about purring, I'm addicted to that right now.

Also the tone on the Periphery album is awesome.

+1 to the guy who mentioned Linkin Parks tone, that tone is still amazing!

 

[MFB]

Townsend's tone on Infinity is godly imo

I can't really get into Infinity, not to say it's because of the tone but I got into Devin and SYL really late in their careers so it's so weird to hear that kind of stuff and think it's the same guy from SYL

However, this has a killer tone as well :

 

[sentagoda]

Dimmu borgir - Puritanical has a great tone.
I think Chimaira on Ressurection has a good tone and always Dive heresy

 

[Krullnar]

Finntroll 'Jaktens Tid'

Ballsy.

 

[liamh]

Phwoar.

 

[shogunate]

Children of Bodom- Are you Dead Yet?
Black Dahlia Murder- Deflorate
A Perfect Circle- Thirteenth Step
Mors Principium Est- The Unborn
Alice in Chains- Dirt
Dark Tranquillity- Fiction
Sybreed- Slave Design
Gojira- The Way of All Flesh
Mnemic- The Audio Injected Soul
Insomnium- At the Gates of Sleep
Meshuggah- Obzen
Slipknot- Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
Trivium- Shogun
Unearth- The Oncoming Storm


Paul Gilbert-Anything
Tom Morello-Anything with RATM
Buckethead-Anything
And lately I've been hooked on M F kitten, if that counts

 

[the red rocket]

the mesa boogies on wrath

 

[JacksonKE2Shred]

For me the first song that comes to mind is i, voyager by nevermore.

 

[Knossos]

I know this is going to get shot down by somebody, but I've gotta say Trigger The Bloodshed's tendancy to take it a bit too far gives me a hard-on.



For lead it's got to be that singing tone on Joe Satriani's 'Flying in a blue dream'

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