What is your favorite guitar "tone"?

Favorite guitar tone ? Good God, too many to list.

A vintage Fender Stratocaster of choice played through a Howard Dumble amplifier - Overdrive Special or Steel String Singer has my vote.

 

This

 

Mick Ronson's sound in the Ziggy era - a Les Paul and a Marshall amp plus a little trickery
Marc Bolan on the albums "T.Rex" and "Electric Warrior" - probably a Marshall amp involved
Brian May and his orchestrations and his full chords - depending less on the amps and more on the man himself

 

"White Room" solo by Clapton in Cream.

 

Gibson with humbuckers through a Marshall Plexi. For heavier rock, make it a Marshall JCM 800.
Runners-up: Rickenbacker through a Vox Ac-30, Strat or Tele through a Fender Deluxe Reverb or Vibrolux

Least favorite: The PRS through an overly compressed Mesa Boogie that is on way too many modern metal or alt-rock records

 

Wildman on Herbie Duncan's Hot Lips Baby has a great twangy sound:


Roland Janes surely belongs on the list with his playing on Billy Lee Riley's Flyin' Saucers Rock & Roll:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIlYMPeA0sg

Tommy Lam's Speed Limit has a great sounding guitar tone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj3xq14K2q8

Joe Bennett on Black Slacks sounds mighty fine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQKxketbUDg

One more from Sun - Wayne Cogswell goes ape on Ray Harris' Come on Little Mama:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z-ftscBjTQ

 

Jerry+SG

 

I love whatever guitar sound fits the track being laid down.

Therefore, I have no favourite.

Having said that, Richard Thompson, David Gilmour (say, up through Animals; the tone everyone loves him for, "Comfortably Numb", etc. sounds like it's in a digital glaze), Jimmy Page (man of a thousand guitar sounds!), John Abercrombie, Robin Trower, Pete Townshend on the early Who singles, Dave Davies, the Beatles.

 

Peter Green's Gibson that had the magnet reversed on one pick up. That combined with Peters touch and feel make for a tone that hits my ear to soul like no other.

 

I love Wanderlust's Prize because of Rob Bonfiglio's great playing and tone.

 

Unless I'm very much mistaken, Albatross was played on a Fender Strat. Here's PG playing a Strat:

 

Anything from:

Bills Nelson & Frisell - especially the latter, a real guitar 'chameleon' with lots of insane guitar sounds/tones;
Robert Fripp;
Alan Holdsworth

for me!

 

Oops youre right. Just picked the first vid I saw.

But are you sure "Need Your Love So Bad" is a Strat on the studio? Ive heard outtakes that sure sound like the LP to me.

Either way, to hear that LP for sure, "Black Magic Woman" is a good example.

Id dare say that whatever Peter Greens guitar, it was his touch that was the real secret.

 

EVH - Fair Warning

 

Another vote for Carlos Santana here.

 

yeah ,but not lately,since he gave up that Yamaha and Les Paul

 

I have the remastered Pious Bird Of Good Omen that features five versions/takes of NYLSB and it certainly sounds like his LP to me, too. The tone is rather 'thin' sounding which could be due to the out of phase effect of selecting neck and bridge PUs on the LP. As you probably know he sold the LP to Gary Moore sometime around 1969.

Oh yes, no argument from me there.

At the end of the first track on the CD he says, "I mucked the ending up..." I don't think so, Peter, it sounds great to me.

 

Yep. What's weird is Peter didnt really like the guitar. Nor did he think it was anything special.

 

Mark Knopfler, Willie Nelson, Robert Cray, T-Bone Walker