Tone Seekers - Your Personal Best Tone

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The best tone I've never owned was a Charvel So Cal straight into a multi watt Dual Rec at the Rock Shop. Was also a big fan of a Blackout loaded Charvel DS into the Orange TH30 via a Cathedral reverb.

Favourite fun tone was an octave down preset on the Line 6 HD100 head I had. Sounded huuuuge. :D
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jimi wrote: Mon Aug 29, 2022 3:27 pm I was very happy with my tone yesterday... My LP standard, neck pickup (Burstbucker Pros), Boss OD1x for a bit of extra gain and grit, and into RobRoyMcCoy's special little Bellbird. soft and squishy, sustain for days. Good tone = a great jam.

The other one that sticks in my mind is ES-335 (57 classics) into a 1974x, volume around 2, so a bit of crunch happening, with a little bit of extra drive from a klon clone (Bondi Sick As). Thick and compressed, edge of breakup and endless sustain. Definitely my happy place.
I have a 1974x kit in my garage that I need to get around to wiring up. Thanks for the reminder...
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I think I’m happiest with my current setup:

‘67 Gretsch 6120 -> Surfy Bear Spring Reverb -> Bogner Duende

I’ve had some great tones over the years though-
Robin Savoy -> Greenstone Bellverb 5 was pretty epic

Radian Paulownia Tele -> Custom Tremolux built by Ryan was another winning combo. I’m currently getting reacquainted with that amp and am loving it paired with my Gretsch too.

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A JS1000 through a cranked 5150ii head and Marshall greenback loaded 4x12. Glorious.
Loving it so far

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Les Paul into 65 Tupelo
Gretsch into Princeton

Those two sounds are really all I need. The rest is just nerdy experimentation.
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GrantB wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 7:46 am Les Paul into 65 Tupelo
Gretsch into Princeton

Those two sounds are really all I need. The rest is just nerdy experimentation.
Oof! That Tupelo stilll haunts me.

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Les Paul/ Telecaster into Bogner mojado - xotic RC for more - rat for even more - settled

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Just recent, 52 AVRI tele to revival trem to Boss Katana.

Small amount of delay and reverb on amps Clean setting with Revival Trem set cleanish with trem pulsing away.

I hear bell chimes on the open chords. Very piano like when I play cleanly and don’t get my ham fists in the way.
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Apart from synths, I wonder if guitar is the instrument with most variation in tones? Some tones that other people chase I can either dislike, think it’s ok for them but not me.

I would guess most other instruments have a much narrower range of tones?

And another thing, electric tones are much more group dependent, so some tones that sound good in isolation don’t work in a band, and some great band tones sound weird isolated.
They keep telling me tone is in the fingers, but I have yet to see a "look at my fingers" thread.
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Delayman wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 10:58 am

And another thing, electric tones are much more group dependent, so some tones that sound good in isolation don’t work in a band, and some great band tones sound weird isolated.
So much this!
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GrantB wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 2:05 pm
Delayman wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 10:58 am

And another thing, electric tones are much more group dependent, so some tones that sound good in isolation don’t work in a band, and some great band tones sound weird isolated.
So much this!
I was/am a big fan of the Scorpions especially the sound of their big 80s stuff, saw them live a few times and they were just as good as on record.

Then I heard Matthias Jabs isolated tones on a rig rundown or deep dive into his live stuff and it's horrible, so trebbly etc. obviously it's just so the lead work sits perfectly above the rhythm bed, but man I wouldn't want that tone when I'm playing on my own! (actually I'd probably take it to be honest ;) )

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Delayman wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 10:58 am Apart from synths, I wonder if guitar is the instrument with most variation in tones? Some tones that other people chase I can either dislike, think it’s ok for them but not me.

I would guess most other instruments have a much narrower range of tones?
Interesting thought... I think you might be right - I don't think there is another instrument that has evolved as many different sounds while maintaining the same basic form (drummers might argue? But 'drums' are like a mini-ensemble, right?)

I'm not sure if that is anything to do with the nature of the instrument as opposed to cultural timing? Guitar's popularity coincided with electrification, and I'd dare say guitarists exploited early electrification more effectively than other instruments (it needed it more for one thing). I could imagine that if electric fiddling had really taken off, violins might have evolved a similarly wide palette of tones?

By the time we get to the digital age, the instrument itself matters less - anything can sound like anything...

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Darth Sabbathi wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 5:13 pm
Delayman wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 10:58 am Apart from synths, I wonder if guitar is the instrument with most variation in tones? Some tones that other people chase I can either dislike, think it’s ok for them but not me.

I would guess most other instruments have a much narrower range of tones?
Interesting thought... I think you might be right - I don't think there is another instrument that has evolved as many different sounds while maintaining the same basic form (drummers might argue? But 'drums' are like a mini-ensemble, right?)

I'm not sure if that is anything to do with the nature of the instrument as opposed to cultural timing? Guitar's popularity coincided with electrification, and I'd dare say guitarists exploited early electrification more effectively than other instruments (it needed it more for one thing). I could imagine that if electric fiddling had really taken off, violins might have evolved a similarly wide palette of tones?

By the time we get to the digital age, the instrument itself matters less - anything can sound like anything...
It's true, you can even make your Tesla sound like farts.
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higainer wrote: Mon Aug 29, 2022 5:42 pm Les Paul with Suhr Aldrich pickups into a Jose modded Mojave Peacemaker thru matching 4x12 loaded with M75 Scumbacks.
Aye, t'was glorious!
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Chromes strings with Medium action
Soft hands plucking close to the fingerboard

Diamond Bass Compressor
Sadowsky Preamp
MusicMan Stingray Fretless
Genuine Old Frontier Gibberish

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