people seem to have many different ideas of what a good tone should sound like. i'm looking for facts and opinions. who has a good tone. i don't want to start a fight but oh well.....

Tone (for me): A strat to a fender amp (I whish I had one) and get a little crunch. If you want to have a feed back add blues overdrive and turn on crunchbox and blues overdrive at the same time... and of course a reverb...

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Fender Highway 1 Strat
Marshall MG 50 DFX
Crybaby 535Q
Behringer Blues Overdrive
MXR Distortion III
Danelectro Flanger
Behringer Delay
EHX Small Stone
Boss Chromatic Tuner

I guess in terms of an opinion, my favorite tone is from Eric Clapton. It seems that no mater what he is playing, I just get lost in the "Tone"

Bill

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Hey, Boy Blue is back!

Tone is in the ear of the beholder.

Love,
Toned.F

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Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

Don't leave home without it!

What we call "tone" really means the musical term "timbre".

To my ear some of the all time greats include:

Early Knopfler
Most Brian May
JJ Cale on Kiss the World Goodbye
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Most BB King
Mid period Pete Townshend
Gilmour's first note on Shine On...
Joe Bonamassa's first lead note on High Water Everywhere

Every kind of gear has been used to make the above sounds. So no clues there...

Cheers - C

I guess you know mine. It's Gilmour!
Also the yet unheard tone of the Cericaster!!

Gotta get back to some serious work on my Yamaha mult-tracker sometime...

- C

Yes and that stack of drying ash in the shed!

Yeah - I was looking at that recently.

However, my boat-building friend gave me that lump of iroko and Big Jay seems so desperate for his "Hurricane Strat" to get made from it that I'm afraid that project has to jump up the list.

And there's one other to come even before that...

Cheers - C

No problem as I got nothing but time. I know they all will be worth the wait!

Ha! You beat me to the punch, Ceri!


I agree. That is breathtaking. I also love Billy Gibbons's guitar work on "Blue Jean Blues" and the opening strains of the song "Cheat" by the Blue Hawaiians.

Oh well, back to work.

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I really like all them "Aster" guitars. You know, like the Stratoc, Telec and Jazzm.

Hi , Theres so many great tonehounds (timbrehounds)? like Tony Iommi
to Rory Gallagher etc etc, saw The Who about 3 years ago and Townshends red strat sounded pretty cool.

Going slightly off base for a moment, i find "home tone" one the most elusive things to crack with an electric guitar. Someone posted a great tip recently about running the input direct into the return jack of the amp. (via a pedal or modeller of some kind)

Apologies to who posted that tip but i tried that and it did bring a welcome change to useability with a pod xt but with a blackstar drive pedal .... awful noise ...blame the bloke on the guitar ...

So regarding getting better tone are there any obvious things that might help, any ideas would be welcome.
Sometime before christmas i should be getting a low powered amp thats on order which will give more options (b#',-%£) hope so judging by the cost! but that still leaves the existing amp issues already mentioned.

Thanks for any thoughts guys

Alan

The Tone masters are the guys I only need to hear one note to know who it is. Santana
Brian May
Clapton
SRV
Vanhalen
Jeff Beck
BB King
Gary Moore
Hendrix
Gilmour

Wolfgang had great tone!

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Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

Don't leave home without it!

it does my heart good to see that most people have a good idea of what a good tone is. all the players named are probably the greatest ever or will be. we should all take notes. some of those guys have changed thier sounds over the years maybe due to commercal pressures or personal reasons or tastes , they have left basic blueprints for all of us to follow.for me i like guitar+cord+amp ,all fender. maybe a chorus pedal. tone is opinion....what sounds good to you. george lynch said it was Iomi's drive with a good single coil....it's all opinion, but it works.