The one players tone you most want.

[Jaden]

Originally Posted by jemplayer55

Not one of you is shooting for your own tone???? I guess using someone else's tone as a baseline is cool but jeez..... what about some individuality please! I guess I look at tone from an "amp/rig and what suites my playing" prospective. I want those shimmering Fender Twin clean tones for some things, That Dumble ODS singing note bloom for rhythm and some lead work and that Komet/Trainwreck touch responsiveness and note bloom into the upper harmonics for a harder rock tone. Ah.... hell just give me a good tube amp and guitar and I'll find a way to milk it!
Now who do I think has great tone????? EJ of course along with Robben Ford, Larry Carlton, Santana, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Ronnie Montrose, Sonny Landreth, Nuno Bettencourt, Vito Bratta, Pat Metheny, Albert Lee, Junior Brown...... Blah, blah, blah...... Bored yet?????
So when they make an amp that lets me emulate all them, I'll rush right out and buy it!
I think I'd do better just working my chops and keep learning different musical styles. Oh, and just be happy sounding like me.......

wrong !

Hopefully my very own!!! - posted olie rocks the 80's

and you are both right...
I like lots of tones but they do not suit me, not Vai's, not Gilbert's and definiately not Satriani's...

but I think most of us listen to great tones and take a part of it with us - just like the licks we recycle for our own use - we use part of a tone and search for the rest of our very own tone ourselves !

It cost a lot of money and im still nowhere near it

[ApOsTle]

Satriani..gotta luv that tone . Ijust aquired a Boss GT5 , so anyone with a nice satch type tone on the gt5 a text patch would be gr8

[Nordhauser]

Originally Posted by jm1681

John Petrucci's tone on Pull me Under.

Scooped, tight, and raw, I love it

I have an '88 Boogie Mark III. gets that perfect Pull Me under tone.

[waylay00]

Originally Posted by jemplayer55

Not one of you is shooting for your own tone???? I guess using someone else's tone as a baseline is cool but jeez..... what about some individuality please! I guess I look at tone from an "amp/rig and what suites my playing" prospective. I want those shimmering Fender Twin clean tones for some things, That Dumble ODS singing note bloom for rhythm and some lead work and that Komet/Trainwreck touch responsiveness and note bloom into the upper harmonics for a harder rock tone. Ah.... hell just give me a good tube amp and guitar and I'll find a way to milk it!
Now who do I think has great tone????? EJ of course along with Robben Ford, Larry Carlton, Santana, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Ronnie Montrose, Sonny Landreth, Nuno Bettencourt, Vito Bratta, Pat Metheny, Albert Lee, Junior Brown...... Blah, blah, blah...... Bored yet?????
So when they make an amp that lets me emulate all them, I'll rush right out and buy it!
I think I'd do better just working my chops and keep learning different musical styles. Oh, and just be happy sounding like me.......

Exactly why I don't play a JEM7VWH. I don't want to develop a reputation as a "Vai copy". Same reason as to why I won't play an EVH Frankenstrat copy or an IbanED. Even if I never make it big, I still want to have a unique impact in music.

[Nesi]

You guys and your fancy guitarists

For heavy stuff, Dissection sort of sound (Jon whatever..)
For under-produced black metal, I'd go with Abyssic Hate's sound or Nargaroth in Rasluka I/II (both are one man projects...)
For death metal, Chuck Schuldiner on Symbolic or Tankard's sounds from the birthday album and newer (which is really thick and heavy)

It's all upto to the muse of which music I play, so far I've got one sound to do them all. Because it doesn't really matter.
I used to do black metal on a Squier with a Boss amp running the gain on 10. Felt like the most evil thing ever. Then I've learned what distortion is, properly...

[jm1681]

Originally Posted by Nordhauser

I have an '88 Boogie Mark III. gets that perfect Pull Me under tone.

I'm dying to try a MKIV. The Recto just isn't cutting it lately

[ChopTart]

There are times when I really want to get a Gilmour sound, or maybe a Warren Hayes sound, but I've never really been after it. I usually get something similar, but with different qualities.

In terms of completely individual tone, I love the sounds I get from my DY's PAF pro's straight to my Mesa distortion - you can really tame both to cover a lot of ground! But I've been a bit of a single-coil man recently, so I'm experimenting with more transparent, thinner sounds

[OLIE_ROCKS_THE_80'S]

Originally Posted by jemplayer55

Not one of you is shooting for your own tone???? I guess using someone else's tone as a baseline is cool but jeez..... what about some individuality please! I guess I look at tone from an "amp/rig and what suites my playing" prospective. I want those shimmering Fender Twin clean tones for some things, That Dumble ODS singing note bloom for rhythm and some lead work and that Komet/Trainwreck touch responsiveness and note bloom into the upper harmonics for a harder rock tone. Ah.... hell just give me a good tube amp and guitar and I'll find a way to milk it!
Now who do I think has great tone????? EJ of course along with Robben Ford, Larry Carlton, Santana, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Ronnie Montrose, Sonny Landreth, Nuno Bettencourt, Vito Bratta, Pat Metheny, Albert Lee, Junior Brown...... Blah, blah, blah...... Bored yet?????
So when they make an amp that lets me emulate all them, I'll rush right out and buy it!
I think I'd do better just working my chops and keep learning different musical styles. Oh, and just be happy sounding like me.......

Go back and read again mate!!! I said I wanted my OWN. No use in coping someone else's

[Dee]

Somewhere between Holdsworth and Govan.

[PatrickSimsCustomShopUSA]

Nuno Bettencourt's is my favorite, especially like on the songs He man Woman Hater and Decadence Dance. His guitar, distortion, tone, everything sounds so awesome. My second would be Slash, I love the way his guitar sounds on the Appetite for Destruction album....

[pawel]

I'd rather sound like myself, but I wouldn't mind having Eric Johnson's tone available to me...

[jemplayer55]

Originally Posted by OLIE_ROCKS_THE_80'S

Go back and read again mate!!! I said I wanted my OWN. No use in coping someone else's

Sorry Olie...... You were the only one who said anything about sounding individual at the time I posted. I guess I was referring to everyone else and you just got "lost" in the big picture. My mistake for not offering kudos!

[jb4674]

My favorite tones:

Joe Satriani (an overall great sound and I'm hoping to get it out of my jsx combo soon)

Eric Johnson (That sound is completely mind blowing and I wish I could have that tone at my disposal whenever)

Carlos Santana (the sustain Carlos puts into his playing just makes me wish I could replicate that everytime)

All and all, I wish I could have that sound at my disposal so I could play like myself and do my own solos and leads with those types of tones.

Jimmy

[Dee]

Originally Posted by SCS

Nuno Bettencourt's is my favorite, especially like on the songs He man Woman Hater and Decadence Dance. His guitar, distortion, tone, everything sounds so awesome. My second would be Slash, I love the way his guitar sounds on the Appetite for Destruction album....

Really? I always thought Slash's tone was awful and very plain.

[jb4674]

It is. For the most part, his tone consists of his les paul and his marshall.