Best Distorted Tone You've Ever Heard???

[Roon4me]

Mesa Boogie Mark IV - Metal (Raw Guitars only) - YouTube

 

[skeeballcore]

Probably not the best distorted tone in the world, but when I was 12 or 13, I got this Embodyment record and sat around spinning it constantly, marveling at the precision of the guitar playing and the heaviness of the guitar sound. I don't care for the message of the band anymore, but this still forms the core of my representation of a heavy guitar sound:

Seconding this awesome tone and album. That sound is courtesy of a Marshall Valvestate, as are several other records recorded at Poynter's Palace (CD's from the golden age of Solid-state Records).

My contribution


Especially at 1:39


Hideously under-appreciated band


Probably posted umpteen hundred times, but i love the tone


Another example of Valvestate being awesome

 

[BIG ND SWEATY]

DL from The Acacia Strain on all the albums but especially on wormwood

 

[Rapture]

Angelcorpse - Inexorable
Morbid Angel - Formulas

 

[Xplozive]

Petrucci's off the Score dvd. Epsecially when he played raise the knife. Damn.. love his tones.

I agree with this. The tone he gets on that whole dvd is amazing. Althought Raise The Knife really is amazing, especially the harmonics he gets out of that intro riff.

 

[Captain Shoggoth]

For really great rhythm tone, I loved Levi and Werstler's tone on Daath's "Day of Endless Light"

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Rhythms on the Wintersun songs Jari didn't use the Tokai telecaster on (Death and the Healing springs to mind) were beastly, beefy and badass, and to this day the reason that I think Mesas are the best tube amps (his lead tone is cool but eh nothing special)

Sylosis's new album (Edge of the Earth) has probably the best balance of rhythm and lead tones I've heard in a while, latter-day SYL came pretty close too, and BTBAM are probably the closest I have to ideal thanks to them having beautiful clean tones (Jeff Loomis has cool rhythm tone but by god are his cleans cheesy). Oh, and The Black Dahlia Murder's album Deflorate, also awesome.


Damn, how much do I pimp out Wintersun and Sylosis on these boards

 

[Gamma362]

maybe not the very best, but I have always loved the tone of this album

 

[kamello]

^ Yeah I love Daron's tone for rhytm, but his leads sound so fucking empty D:



I heard this thing yesterday and was pretty impressed by the tone

 

[Gamma362]

^ Yeah I love Daron's tone for rhytm, but his leads sound so fucking empty D:

Ive seen a few fan shot videos of stuff from their recent reunion tour and honestly I thought his lead tone sounded quite good.

 

[Sicarius]

Has Prince done anything with some gain/ distortion?

if so, then Him.

 

[kamello]

Ive seen a few fan shot videos of stuff from their recent reunion tour and honestly I thought his lead tone sounded quite good.

I really hope so, im going to see them this september

 

[Twiggyay]

What a silly question, my own of course.

lolno, it's shit.

 

[jsl2h90]

The tone of the final solo of the Cacophony song "Go Off!" It's so saturated with distortion but still perfect, i don't even know how to describe it. I've been trying to emulate it for years to no avail.

 

[Samarus]

I love Petrucci's on SFAM, Govan's, and AAL's on Weightless!

 

[Selkoid]

Rhythm: The Contortionist - Exoplanet

Lead: Paul Wardingham - Assimilate Regenerate, Christian Muenzner - Timewarp/Cosmogenesis

 

[USMarine75]

^ Ditto to Cacophony! I thought I was the only one that likes Jason's tone. There was another thread on SS.org about worst tone and a bunch of people brought Becker up.

Big fan of Engel's rhythm tone. Heavy but not too distorted.

EVH on Balance and FUCK.

Hendrix on Electric Ladyland, Bold as Love, and live at Woodstock and Monterey.

And I love Gilbert's tone on Fuzz Universe.

 

[wayward]

I'm really loving Michael Keene and Steve Jones' tone on The Faceless' Akeldama album.
Especially their lead sound.

 

[Thor_]

For me it's the guitar sound on the last 3 black dahlia albums. It's just so punchy and brutal.

 

[Don Vito]

Lead- Yngwie

Rhythm- August Burns Red

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Rammstein. Reise, Reise and Rosenrot albums. 28 layers of pure 2-channel blackface Dual Recto done.

Also gonna throw out there Dino's tone on the first Fear Factory album, Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime, and any Scorpions album released between 1980 - 1993.