Best Distorted Tone You've Ever Heard???

[Into Obsidian]

Type O Negatives's Kenny Hickey on the album October Rust.
Listen to the power chords in the intro..dat tone

 

[SenorDingDong]

Ty Tabor's tone

 

[Arryn]

 

[Rapture]

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Anything off Couldn't Stand the Weather.

 

[Wolf ov Fire]

Gojira, Behemoth on the Apostasy

 

[BucketheadRules]

Type O Negatives's Kenny Hickey on the album October Rust.
Listen to the power chords in the intro..dat tone

This, oh god this.

Does anyone know what amps Kenny used?

 

[Moltar]

My fave Cannibal tone has be Gallery of Suicide tone. Its warm and dark and fits the atmosphere on that album

I have always loved the Gallery tone. Listen to the crunchiness of the song "From Skin to Liquid" it just floors me every time. So thick and crunchy and brutal and dark.

 

[Josh_Conlee]

I'll probably get tons of shit for this, but I love this tone and I guess you could say TAS is one of my not-so-guilty pleasures.

The Acacia Strain-The Carpathian (Lyrics in Description) - YouTube

 

[Into Obsidian]

This, oh god this.

Does anyone know what amps Kenny used?

It was just an ADA MP-1 with an Alesis Quadraverb for FX into a Mosvalve 500.

 

[Bones43x]

Some of my all time fave distorted tones are from Soundgarden: The Day I Tried To Live, Spoonman, My Wave...basically the entire Superunknown album. Badmotorfinger was awesome too.

Underoath's "Define the Great Line" has some cool tones.

My favorite lead tone would have to be Petrucci on "Images and Words."

 

[Nile]

Ola Englund, Cannibal Corpse. Aeon has a great rhythm tone that goes really well with drums.


Edit: Forgot Nile, cannot forget Nile. Fucking Nile.

 

[s4tch]

This:



The whole Cleansing album by Prong is killer tone-wise. Best metal sound ever for my taste.

As for a softer tone, Andy Timmons FTW:


(You may want to check part 2&3, too.)

So f'in tasty.

 

[blaaargh]

For me The Angelic Process has always had the most compelling tone. I always feel like the guitars are the sonic equivalent of a black hole.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNu9JuURXL8&feature=related
The Angelic Process - The Promise Of Snakes - YouTube

 

[GTailly]

Here are some of what came out at first thought. Might add more later.

Cleans:
AAL - Weightless
Heights - From sea to sky
Karnivool - Themata and Sound Awake

Crunch:
Heights - From sea to sky
Circa Survive - Blue sky noise
Paramore - Brand new eyes
Karnivool - Themata and Sound Awake

Heavier distortion:
AAL - Weightless
The Kymantica - 2011 EP
VoM - Our commun man's collapse
Vildhjarta - Masstaden
Monuments - We are the foundation

All of those listed are in no particular order but I must say all of Heights' tone are giving me eargasms. So perfect tones!!!!!!1

 

[pineappleman]

Greatest non-metal distorted tone ever

 

[dNate]

Vildhjarta - Love the punch to their sound. You can definitely hear the smack of their pick through their tone which is what I tend to lean toward with distortion tones.

I dig Psycroptic's tone too. Kinda parallel to LoG's tone which compliments their technical styles.

 

[Wolf ov Fire]

Ola Englund, Cannibal Corpse. Aeon has a great rhythm tone that goes really well with drums.


Edit: Forgot Nile, cannot forget Nile. Fucking Nile.

The doom of Ra is upon you!!!


That being said, I have another addition. Meshuggah on ObZen. The distortion is so tight, the low end so pronounced that it is unbelievable. And not overproduced either, just a natural, pure, tone clearly emphasizing the bass and establishing the overtones well. I think it's due to their use of 29.4" scale. I mean really, that's gotta be the best tone ever.

And the clean tones on TesseracT's EP, Concealing fate. The distorted tone is too similar to circa-Chaosphere Meshuggah meets Obscura to be notable. But their clean is so well defined, the attack pulls through to well and they have well defined dynamics

 

[Phrygian]

Best tone ever!!


And of course periphery!


And Aliases' tone kicks ass!

 

[Perplexed-Perception]

this tone is the best thing i have heard in a very long time i tried to get a similar sound not sure whats going on exactly to get it

 

[Domkid118]

Recently played with a band that used Diamond heads, these things have some serious chunk behind them, i though my 6505 sounded sweet


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