Worst Guitar Tones

Yup. And bad tone doesn't always wreck a good song. "Let It Rain" is a great example of one I really enjoy despite the guitar intro.

 

Thanks for posting this...

 

Jazzmasters or Jaguars(?) into old Princetons, I think. Are you referring to the s/t record?

I love the sound of that record; one man's meat, etc. ...

 

i like the slightly screechy tone on the Layla LP. It just fits into the soundscape.

 

yes! i hate Clapton too excepted in while my guitar

 

oh yes it's crap! every guitar seller plays better than that and i'm not trolling. in the bluesbreaker it sounded great but here!!!

 

Malmsteen

 

Sorry, I had a bad day. Brian's guitar tone may not be my favourite one, but it's easy recognisable and certainly not bad.

 

The examples you mention never bothered me, In fact the organ trio hollowbody guitar always stuck me as having a nice presense. What I dislike is his current tone using a Godin superstrat and laptop processing. Sounds kind of cheap with a rolled off treble and no character.

 

Good call!

 

Trey Anastasio

 

Funny, position 4 is my favorite pickup position on my favorite guitar. I guess we will have to agree to disagree about the bass thing too because I'd be very happy to live with Jimmy Johnson's tone. Artists as diverse as James Taylor and Alan Holdsworth also seem to to like. They keep hiring him. Pino Paladino is another bassist who makes great use of that tone. I love his work as well.

 

It's basically a salad bowl with strings on it.
I think they were popular at the time just because they did not feed back at high volumes that way a real wood acoustic does.

 

I'm not fond of the Joe Satriani 'Surfing With the Alien' tone. He's obviously a great guitarist, but that tone doesn't even sound like a guitar to me.

 

I've said before on other threads that two instruments, Ovation "acoustic" guitars and Yamaha Electric Grand Pianos, have ruined most mid to late '70s live albums.

 

It works for what he does, but I always wondered how it is he's using a treble booster and still manages to have a tone that sounds so boxy and muffled?

 

Jimmy Page's tone on the 1977 US tour...paper thin, brittle, and with his diminished state for much of that tour, painful to listen to. Such a contrast from the fat, meaty, otherworldly tone he had on every Zeppelin tour up to and including 1975.

 

Though I had "Don't Look Back", gift, I never liked Boston.
To me that band was the Rubbing Alcohol of Rock. No dirt
to the music whatsoever. Again, Eccch.

 

People have been complaining about this since the end of Cream.
Then he got stick once again for the reunion shows. He just wanted
to evolve and not endlessly repeat himself, a complaint shared by
Hendrix. He to tired of the guitar hero status close to the end.

I suspect one reason is it's just too damned loud now. It's not as if
he didn't try. Cream did use Marshalls during the reunion rehearsals
but claimed "... it didn't work."

Still ... wouldn't it be great if EC did do it again for Old Tyme's sake?

Don't hold yer breath.

 

I don't like any guitars that seems being "made", a few exceptions from 80s glam rock. So what comes to mind is Creed and Nickelback's sound.. urgh.

 

I'm gonna quietly back away w/ my buddies George Lynch, Mark Kendall and John Sykes....backing away.........

 

Big time!

 

Steve Hackett's electric guitar tone suffered near the end of his tenure with Genesis (post-Peter Gabriel). He started using a very thin tone (which people often confused with Banks' synths, leading to the claim that he is virtually inaudible on most of the last two studio records), and on Seconds Out he sounds like he's got way too much chorus going on, at least I think he does, the guitar is so faint in the mix that I can't be certain. A real bummer, considering how great his contributions to the early albums were.

 

What happened to his tone? It looks like the same guitar, same amp, in pictures...

 

There was always an ovation player at my church when I was growing up. I hated its sound even back then, but then I came across a 12 string v-neck Ovation that a friend basically gave away. It sounded OK when I was aggressively attacking it, at loud volumes, but anything low-to-normal volume sounded like a plastic toy.

Didn't Robert Smith use one? I thought I remember seeing it on the Cure's "Just Like Heaven" video.