Guitar tones you love and have shaped your tone..

[Dawn of the Shred]

My fav guitar tones are Ola englund, Peter joseph, Dimebags and Keith merrow. These have shaped my tone into what it is today. Whos tone do you love and whos tone have shaped your tone?

 

[mike90t09]

I have always loved Lamb of God's tone. I guess you could say the tone I use today is pretty standard and not really based off of one guitarist, a lot of treb, a lot of low, and a fair amount of mids lol

 

[Xardoniak]

I absolutely love Northlanes tones but I was a big fan of Killswitch Engages tone back when I was listening to them.

 

[m3l-mrq3z]

The riff sound on this song. It is pretty much the riff sound I go for whenever I record...

 

[Zer01]

The And Justice For All tone. Yes, I know, I know.

Also Dime's tone on Cowboys and Vulgar. After that it was a sharp decline.

 

[kamello]

Rammstein (that thing is just like being crushed by..........by yo Mamma, huehuehuhe so many lulz), Mark and Misha's tone in Haunted Shores, and Petrucci (god, I was obsesed trying to get his tone)

 

[DjentDjentlalala]

All of The Ocean,and Converge.Also tDEP Miss Machine tone.

 

[Splenetic]

On the extreme side...I'd say it's a toss up between Carcass, Nasum, Napalm Death, The Crown, and also a few old school metalcore bands like Turmoil and Buried Alive.

Sabbath is one of my two favorite bands of all time, and i'm also a pretty big sucker for anything from stoner rock to sludge, crushing doom, classic doom, so there's also that.

On that note....the second favorite is Anathema. And yes, you better believe i bought a guitar with a sustainiac pickup just because of them and their sexy sustained harmonics.


Then there's times when you say fuck it all and just wanna play the blues....

Basically, I like to have a lot of different tones at my disposal. That said, my gear is still a bit limited ... I want a new amp. But I won't scoff at what i currently have either, it's brought me many hours of good times.

 

[Addie5150]

Van Halen - Fire in the hole.
In the middle of the song EVH plays a riff over which he solos on Eb & then ends the song playing the same riff in Bb.
That tone !!!!! So much meat . That fucking riff made me wanna play downtuned stuff & gradually move on to 7 strings
similarly on the new album - As is

 

[Addie5150]

Pantera - Sandblasted skin

 

[JPhoenix19]

Between the Buried and Me, specifically from Colors on. I'm also influenced by a lot of Nu-Metal like Sevendust, Linking Park (Hybrid Theory and Meteora), and even Limp Bizkit. For lead tones, I can't think of one better than Petrucci's.

 

[Vhyle]

Death - Sound of Perseverance
Jeff Loomis - Zero Order Phase. Such monster tone there; better than the second album.
And Justice For All. No, seriously. Loved that sound.
First Animals as Leaders album.

Those tones have influenced my tones greatly. I don't try to downright copy them, but they pointed me into the direction for tones that I love to use.

 

[rjnix_0329]

Gojira - The Way of All Flesh and L'Enfant Sauvage
Isis - Oceanic and In The Absence of Truth

Pretty much that really full, liquid, heavy tone with massive palm mutes is what I have always been looking for. The EVH 5150III helped me get a whole lot closer!

 

[mcleanab]

Early in my development:
Randy Rhoads' tone on the Tribute album. (Marshalls)
Vernon Reid on the first two Living Colour ablums. (ADA MP-1)
Jake E. Lee on The Ultimate Sin. (Marshalls?)
Alex Lifeson on Hold Your Fire and A Show of Hands (Dean Markley and Gallien Krueger).

Recently:
Jeff Loomis on Plains of Oblivion (Engl?)
Christian Muenzner on Time Warp (Engl?)
Tesseract (Peavey?)
Devin Townsend across the board.

There's a bunch more too... the tone on Van Halen's Fair Warning... I remember Jane's Addiction's Nothing Shocking having some tones I really dug at the time (as does Strays).

 

[DarkWolfXV]

Carcass on Necroticism/Heartwork, Suicide Silence on The Cleansing (Holy shit thats the heaviest tone aside from Mortician which i have heard), Mortician and Cryptopsy None So Vile/Blasphemy Made Flesh (Dem Strat with EMG's and Boss Metal Zone)

 

[skisgaar]

Killswitch Engage have easily some of the best guitar tones I've ever heard.
Fallujah's lead tone is wicked too.

I only have an Engl screamer though, so I sound like neither hahaha

 

[ridner]

Lars' snare tone on St Anger

 

[Korbain]

My guitar tone/sounds are a bit of Adam Jones, Tom Morello, Mikael Akerfeldt, Stephen Carpenter, Wes Borland and Dimebag A use bit of each for the distortion, cleans, effects for my overall sound

 

[AfterTheBurial8]

I dickride this band all the time, but I've been a fan of Gallagher's tone for some time.

 

[DarkWolfXV]

I dickride this band all the time, but I've been a fan of Gallagher's tone for some time.

Its all about the Ampeg 140 VH, bro.