best guitar tones of all time?

[ilbianconero]

Yeah Mercyful Fate 90's tone is good.
Plus: Accept balls to the wall tone. Proper heavy.

[bratfink]

Excerpt from Guitar World magazine August 1994.

GW: What gear and settings do you guys use to get your tone?
Steer: Just for simplicity, I only use one amp live--a Peavy 5150 with a Marshall Guv'nor pedal in front of it to beef up the overdrive just that little bit extra. In the studio, though, it's a different matter; I use several different amps--a selection of Marshalls and the 5150.
Hickey: One of the amps Bill used on Heartwork was a Marshall 30th Anniversary head that's really fierce, and he also used a tiny Marshall stack on pretty much every track to add some extra high end.
[Note: Mike didn't join Carcass until after the Heartwork album was recorded.]
Steer: Yeah, if I remember correctly, almost all of the guitar tracks were done with at least two amps going at once--one of them being a large amp, like the Anniversary [on channel two], a Marshall SL-X 100 watt or the 5150, and then also more often than not, my 10-watt [Marshall] Valvestate micro-stack for extra texture.
Unlike a lot of other bands who do the kind of stuff that we do, we tend to use a lot of mids. I don't think some people realize how important middle is to a guitar sound.
Hickey: Absolutely, mids are essential in a solo--without 'em your tone is real thin. My current backline setup is a Marshall SL-X 100-watt head and a Peavey 5150. I suck the mids out of the Marshall but not out the Peavey. I started the Heartwork world tour using a Guv'nor pedal too, but I just got tired of stage divers stepping on my shit!

Did you read the whole thing or just the first few lines?

Live = 5150, Studio = all sorts.

Correct me if I am wrong but was Heartwork a Live Album?

The GW interview makes no metion of the custom cabinet made at Parr St studios (where the album was recorded) that was stuck in studio 5 because that was the sound they tried to get back to from the demo tracks, or the Allen & Heath mic preamps that were used to shape the tone.

[dustin1969]

I vote for Rusty

[loose Cannon]

Did you read the whole thing or just the first few lines?

Live = 5150, Studio = all sorts.

Correct me if I am wrong but was Heartwork a Live Album?

The GW interview makes no metion of the custom cabinet made at Parr St studios (where the album was recorded) that was stuck in studio 5 because that was the sound they tried to get back to from the demo tracks, or the Allen & Heath mic preamps that were used to shape the tone.

Grim stated it was 5150 tone all over. I put this excerpt up to say it wasn't totally.

[bratfink]

Grim stated it was 5150 tone all over. I put this excerpt up to say it wasn't totally.

Ah right. Agreed.

[Total_Annihilation]

I guess some of my favorite tones of all time are pretty much all from the thrash metal genre with a few exceptions:

Annihilator - Schizo Deluxe
Anthrax - Persistence Of Time
Death - Human
Overkill - From The Underground And Below/Necroshine
Testament - Low
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Trivium - Ascendancy
Heathen - Victims Of Deception
Defiance - Beyond Recognition
Megadeth - Endgame
...too many more to list...

[Ark]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBugd...eature=related
One of my favorite tones .

[FlyingSkull]

There is a live version of Can't You See, by Marshall Tucker Band where the guitar tone if so friggen good, especially those first leads coming in after the flute in the intro. I'll try to find a link of it.


EDIT: It's the live version from Searching For a Rainbow album (nice cover art haha.)

[emperor_black]

Lately, I've been digging these tones.

[Grim]

Lately, I've been digging these tones.

Dissection. Awesome.

[booger007]

Michael Schenker-Rock Bottom-Strangers in the night live

[Trem]

Yeah um pretty much anything MSG or UFO....Special Mention to No Heavy Petting their best next to lights but i think just the rawness of petting rules, it defiantly deserves as one of rocks best albums easy. with also noteworthy Drumming..
Forefront piano, sick vocals bass and drums
Fucking Epic

[booger007]

UFO in the original line up was kick ass for sure. Saw them live a few times including the reunion. Epic is right!

[Nightbat]

Hmm, Brian May anyone?

[Learn Guitars]

I wish I could throw this thread on my Ipod.