The 8 Greatest Guitar Tones. EVER.

[MusicisWin]

What is your favorite guitar tone ever?

[tomashudak]

1:55 burning room
4:27 purple haze
7:10 van Halen
9:12 battery
10:40 under the bridge
12:43 bohemian rhapsody
14:16 whole lotta love
15:47 for the love of god

[filux]

before watching off the top of my head:

Eric Johnson (Cliffs)
David Gilmour (Comfortably numb)
John Mayer (Burning room)
Mark Knopfler (Brothers in arms)
Carlos Santana (Black magic woman)
Brian May (Lazing on a sunday afternoon)

[deanclarke]

“Learning guitar? Wait don’t touch that skip button”
Me: yeah no

[UnboundOdysseus]

Eric Johnson's live "Cliffs of Dover" tone from "Live from Austin Texas" (1988) has been scientifically proven to be the greatest guitar tone ever achieved by humanity and can never be surpassed, unless it's done by EJ himself. Don't get mad at me; it's science. Also, Eric Johnson is a superior being from another dimension so I suppose it's not a fair comparison.

[toniweak]

Eric Johnsons lead tone in his live version of cliffs of dover

[RCSmiths]

The moment I saw this, I immediately thought of SRV's tones. Such a raw and strong tone that easily got me into Guitar!

[BramMouse]

Mark Knopflers tone is the one I can always recognise. Even when I was listening to a Slow Train Coming by Bob Dylan, I thought: "hmm this sounds familiar". After I googled the song it showed that Knopfler played guitar on that album :).

[karlsn]

Mark Knopfler "Money for Nothing" is a classic. I would easily recognize it over the last one played.

[andybass]

I'm pretty shocked there wasn't a track to feature David Gilmour. He's got one of the most recognizable tones.

[theonlyredspecial]

Brian may surely has to have one of the most distinctive tones. The John mayer tone was beautiful. Great video.

[ozr]

Eric Johnson’s tone is incredible, and one of the hardest to replicate

[migueleespinosa]

Santana's lead tone...just touches my soul. Europa on Moonflower album .

[charliebrown]

Gilmour, Pulse dvd tone, especially the time solo and Sorrow.

[tylergunther]

Remember kids: tone is stored in the wallet.

[salatieljyrustumanan]

Finally, a list on tones of other players
Fun fact: Hendrix didn't play a strat when recording Purple Haze. He played on a telecaster after breaking his strat's tuner(s) in the gig he played before going to the studio. This is why I stuck with telecaster.


For the Bohemian Rhapsody tone cover, you could use you Paoletti triple P90(His Red Special has Burns tri-sonics which are really hot single coils) or any out-of-phase guitar you have. Oh, and Brian has a really light touch. His fretting is so soft he didn't need to refret after all these years of playing it.

[pablohill]

I just bought a spark. I am soooo happy with it. It sounds so nice and clean. My old amp was very noisy and the distortion was like a over the top fuzz, horrible. It sounded ok when played clean and using bias fx2, but it still had some hum. The spark is silent and I’m using way less cables.

I love it 💕

[bithichakraborty]

You know what, Tyler? You're one of the reasons I play guitar. Your solo in the song 'Dread Machine' still leaves me, 'Hey, back up, what was that? Play it You just rock,

[Dan-sbfb]

for me, it’s slash’s intro to “get in the ring”. just this monstrous tubey tone that gives me goosebumps every time.

[JoshTaylor-xwjg]

Recognizable: Santana. One note and you know it.

Legendary: jimi hendrix fuzz tones