Best Guitar Tones in Rock Music

[Daniel Sobota]

I was listening The Cure and I thought how fucking great their guitar tone is. It’s so clear, yet so melancholic and dark… So I’d like you to post links of bands/songs with your best guitar tones, because there are so many great ones out there.

 

[Filip Tomiša]

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[soren a]

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[idssdi]

I personally love Syns tone on The Stage as a whole. Besides That I really like John frusciante’s and John Mayers live tone and Stevie Ray Vaughn has great tone too.

 

[idssdi]

I’play try to find some videos when I’m home ooh and I forgot David Gilmour

 

[idssdi]

This happens to be my favourite thing the red Hot chili peppers Have done





For the stage I could put a link of the whole record here

 

[Gene Sullivan]

Unpopular opinion: I’ve never cared for Gilmour’s live tone as much as the studio. Too much compression, too… slippery. Even when he hits the Big Muff it doesn’t have the same sort of bite.
Billy Howerdel’s work on both A Perfect Circle albums just sounds fantastic. Adam Jones, too, particularly on Lateralus. Parabol/Parabola, aside from being a great song, is so wonderfully recorded and mixed, I could just fall into it.
On a more indie note, Dean Wareham and Sean Eden from Luna consistently produce beautiful tone, both live and in studio. Also, Sean is a really funny guy.
Here’s a live set from KEXP that I think is a good example of what they sound like.

Their last studio album, Rendezvous, is just magnificently produced from start to finish. Even the weaker songs (there’s a couple) still sound fantastic. Highly recommended.