Who do you think has the best vibrato?

[JP Universe]

Yngwies wide vibrato does it for me off a fast run and Steve Vai with his slow circular vibrato

 

[Abiogenesis]

Loomis and Malmsteen have immediately recognizable vibratos, I LOVE their vibratos...

 

[troyguitar]

I have a hard time telling Loomis and Jason Becker apart, they both sound fantastic but it's striking how similar Jeff's tone is to Jason.

 

[ShadyDavey]

If I had to pick just one I guess I would say Uli, but other favorites include:

Yngwie
G Moore
Sykes
M Schenker sober
Jason Becker/Jeff Loomis (they sound nearly identical IMO)

Me!

Not to pretend like my playing is in the same league as those guys, but I really enjoy listening to my own playing when I'm playing slowly enough that it's clean.

All of the above for certain. I actually like Shawn Lane's vibrato with the bar when he took the time to do it, but given how many guitarists I listen to per week I still hear a lot of notes without the golden touch of the older-school players.

 

[Self Bias]

Hate to say this, but I would have to agree on Yngwie. I hate small guages, but if you could vibrato like that on normal strings you might lose a callous or two. Extremely loose and fluid- effortless sounding.
BB has the g string thing pretty well perfected.
Hendrix managed to bend the perfect amount and at the same time sound like he didn't give a shit.

 

[ShadyDavey]

Yng's vibrato is pretty much my ideal as it exemplifies the very best in his playing - controlled, fiery on demand, subtle when required, and the man can do it with the bar, horizontal (classical) or vertical (blues/rock) and I've even seen him do that slide bass player-style vibrato that Greg Howe popularised.

Now, why the hell did I sell my Malmsteen strat again?

Around 0:32 is the slide move, but the brilliant finger vibrato is very much in evidence throughout. Haven't seen him use the bar a lot recently although I recall a couple of moments from the mid 80's I'll try to dig out.....

 

[Self Bias]

That's crazy. You wouldn't even know he wasn't bending without the video.

 

[ozzcows]

Greg howe has some of the most ridiculous vibrato out there.

 

[troyguitar]

That's crazy. You wouldn't even know he wasn't bending without the video.

Gary Moore used to do that a lot too on his Charvels. I've seen a vid of either The Loner or Still Got The Blues where he played damn near the whole song with the bar and it still sounded perfect. I wish I had that kind of control on my Floyds!

 

[fretninjadave]

my buddy and now band mate hector c. in his old band 5393

 

[phantasm]

Andy LaRoque
Chris Poland
Yngwie

These are my favorite.

 

[iRaiseTheDead]

My two I can think of are:
Chris Storey (All Shall Perish)
Rusty Cooley

 

[SirMyghin]

Yng's vibrato is pretty much my ideal as it exemplifies the very best in his playing - controlled, fiery on demand, subtle when required, and the man can do it with the bar, horizontal (classical) or vertical (blues/rock) and I've even seen him do that slide bass player-style vibrato that Greg Howe popularised.

Now, why the hell did I sell my Malmsteen strat again?

Around 0:32 is the slide move, but the brilliant finger vibrato is very much in evidence throughout. Haven't seen him use the bar a lot recently although I recall a couple of moments from the mid 80's I'll try to dig out.....

Wow, that was pretty good, I didn't know yngwie could do anything on electric but wank (on classicals I liked him but his 'metal' is tiring at best).

 

[ShadyDavey]

Wow, that was pretty good, I didn't know yngwie could do anything on electric but wank (on classicals I liked him but his 'metal' is tiring at best).

Yngwie is a monstrous player, he's just fallen victim to his own cliches. He's capable of so much more than he ever bothers producing or playing....

 

[EcoliUVA]

Some really good players mentioned already, but one of my favorites that hasn't been:

Andy LaRocque.

Example: Starting at about 7:20...

 

[ShadyDavey]

Mentioned twice on this page already but yeah, I do agree

 

[teqnick]

Peter Wichers
Amott brothers
Mikael Akerfeldt

 

[s_k_mullins]

Gilmour and Clapton...beautiful soulful vibrato!

Steve Vai also. I love his vibrato.

 

[EcoliUVA]

Mentioned twice on this page already but yeah, I do agree

Crap, you're right...I fail at CTRL+F.

 

[troyguitar]

Steve Vai also. I love his vibrato.

I wonder if there's anything on guitar that he can't do.