You all time favorite guitar tones

[DonP]

Edit - Let's say these are tones you like so much, you could live with them on a desert island forever.

I'm making a list of my favorite guitar tones. Yeah, I suck that I don't have my own tone and I just try to copy other peoples tones. But that's what I like. Playing along to my guitar heros.

Looking to see what other people think so that I can add to my list of tones that I'd like to nail. So far I have:

Savatage
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Metallica
Megadeth
Jake E Lee
Dio
Black Sabbath
Lynch
Armored Saint
Van Halen (edit - early years)
AC/DC
GnR
Queensryche
Ratt
Def Leppard
Thin Lizzy
Loudness
Great White
Rush

[Musician78]

David Gilmour. Especially his tone from the live Wall cd.

EDIT--I somehow managed to forget about Steve Hackett also.

[atomic charvel guy]

i gotta tell you, the first Boston album doesn't get enough recognition as far
as guitar tone goes, i'd never heard one like it, and then VH about 2 years after that.
problem was that boston made the same album the 2nd time around. and the 3rd.

[Reverend Timmy]

Frank Marino and John Sykes........

[BayRocker]

Gilmour...

[neilli]

Here's a few of my favs off the top of my head:

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Extreme - Pornographitti (starting to see an MP1 theme yet? )
Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
Exodus - Tempo of the Damned
Maiden - Seventh Son (very processed though)
Sambora - Keep the Faith tones.

[dg]

Weird, but I was just thinking about this a few minutes ago. I'm not a Whitesnake fan at all, but Sykes' tone was perfection, especially on Still of the Night.

And seconding Tommy, it was something being a kid around the time Boston & the first couple of VH albums came out. It just made the hair on the back of your neck stand up.

[Krymson86]

Helloween - Halloween. Specifically Kai Hansen's tone for the leads he plays throughout the song. Like quintessential 80s tone with more kick to it. I've got it pretty close with my Soloist Standard (pro series).

NightRage - The entire Wearing a Martyr's Crown album. Just awesome super tight, super heavy metal tone.

Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane and No One Like You. Great tone all around.

Iron Maiden always had great tones.

Tad Morose on the song "No Mercy".

[DonP]

Helloween - Halloween. Specifically Kai Hansen's tone for the leads he plays throughout the song. Like quintessential 80s tone with more kick to it. I've got it pretty close with my Soloist Standard (pro series).

Yeah, good stuff.

Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane and No One Like You. Great tone all around.

How the hell could I forget the Scorpions!
Let's add Accept too, because I bought Balls to the Wall at the same time I bought Love at First Sting.

[Tricky]

Frank Marino and John Sykes........

+1

Also Billy Gibbons, Buck Dharma, JY, and I was never what you would call a Journey fan, but Neal Schon has always had great tone.

And Brian May.

[VitaminG]

Gary Moore
Dave Meniketti (Y&T)
Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree)
Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth)

[loose Cannon]

Heres a few more , Eric Johnson, Santana, Edge(u2), Brad Paisley have very unique tones.

[Scooter]

Motley Crue? Anthrax? And I will second Sykes' tone.

[Snoogans]

Yngwie, EVH and Mick Mars!

[Grandturk]

Adrian Smith's live tone on Live After Death - love the over distorted, ring modulated wacko sound he's got - it really fits in the mix

Sacred Reich - Independent