Guitar tones you love and have shaped your tone..

[riffer_madness]

Master. Of. Puppets.

 

[Dayn]

Guitar Pro 5, the 'Les Paul' 'Metal Kirk - Rhythm' RSE soundbank.

Seriously. That is the best tone I have ever heard. So much low end clarity when it's down an octave.

 

[Friendroid]

This tone, mainly:



More recently:

 

[Carnage]

This will always be my favorite guitar tone

 

[Kullerbytta]

Keith Merrows tone since he got his Rhodes Colossus, Killswitch Engage from End of Heartache to now (pre End was better music, post End is better sound )

And a tone that I've always loved since before I started playing guitar was Cradle of Filths tone on Midian... I can't get that creamy sound out of my head!

 

[Amanita]

Pixies, Tortoise, Neurosis, Isis, Osric Tentacles, Caspar Brotzmann, Fred Frith
and old Mastodon effin rulez

 

[VBCheeseGrater]

Lately it's been Daron Malakian on the Toxicity album. He's just got a good mix of raw heaviness and clarity. He's not necessarily a favorite player of mine, but i dig that tone and i find myself with a similar tone when i shape mine.

 

[jbab]

I always liked Emppu's tone in Nightwish

 

[isispelican]

Haunted Shores, Periphery, Mastodon, Mogwai

 

[IbanezDaemon]

Early Yngwie, and Vinnie Moore's Mind's Eye and Time Odyssey albums.

 

[phugoid]

SRV
Eric Johnson
Satriani
Marty Friedman's lead tone on Rust in Peace
early EVH's rhythm tone

I'd like to say that they've "shaped my tone", but let's get real.

 

[sniperfreak223]

Dimebag, Robb Flynn/Phil Demmel, and Kerry King/Jeff Hanneman, but I've always tried to stay away from copying anyone's tone, because part of being a musician is finding your own voice via your guitar tone.

Besides, almost everyone is already ripping off Dime's tone now...

 

[chassless]

^ you mean since forever !

 

[wheresthefbomb]

Adam Jones of Tool (you know the one...)

Aaron Turner of Isis


Aaron John Gregory of Giant Squid, the band that also renewed my efforts to find a cellist.


Mike Schiedt of Yob


Hearing these bands literally changed my life and made me reexamine the way I was approaching my art, and as a guitarist it was their guitarists whose sound and styles had the most influence on me. The tone I'm still chasing is heavily influenced by all four.

I guess I owe some credit to Andrew Southard (formerly and once again) of Giant Squid for making me want to start keys again, too!

 

[Dawn of the Shred]

Scale the summit, MDB, The ocean, Also have great tone

 

[Sephiroth952]

Petrucci. Every time man.

 

[wheresthefbomb]

Scale the summit, MDB, The ocean, Also have great tone

I love The Ocean, almost included them but they just aren't as formative on me as the other four.

 

[TKtheproducer]

Fear Factory, Soulfly, Chimaira, Soilwork, Raunchy, Mnemic, Issues, Periphery, Tesseract

 

[Lifestalker]

I ride Ron Jarzombek's dick...constantly. Love his tone. I know it's mostly due to his extremely tight/clean playing. If I remember correctly, he still uses the Johnson J Station to record then adds effects later on.

I can't shape my tone to match all of these but, I love them for unexplainable reasons.

 

[will_shred]

Keith Merrow might be my biggest influence tone wise, however I feel like my tone itself is pretty unique.