How would you discribe your tone and...

[cobalt]

How do you get it? I prefer a nice warm somewhat over driven tube tone Ala Jimmy Page. I get my tone by using My Hag and my Fender Gdec Jr. I haven't reached my dream tone yet but I'm getting closer. The Hag was a big step in the right direction. Speaking of Jimmy Page although he is known for playing a Les Paul did you know he recorded all of Led Zeps first album with a Tele? Talk about tone!!

[Tone2TheBone]

The Tele is one heck of a versatile instrument and Jimmy Page is one of my heros you got good taste cobalt! Keep at it and you'll find your tone.

[sunvalleylaw]

I am still really a newb, so I am not sure I have found "my tone" per se. I would say that it mostly has been thus far a warmly overdriven strat, typically on the neck pickup. Sometimes I like to add on some more hair/distortion/fuzz. That sound is my strat, with the tex mex pups, clean into the C-30, then add the Bad Monkey for the warm overdrive, then add the Rabid Rodent DVM gave me for distortion (or replace the Bad Monkey with it) and sometimes turn on the Big Muff fuzz. In my head, I guess I am shooting for a range that runs between Mayer and Santana. I also like to find vintage punk sounds on my strat.

My new Hagstrom is giving me a whole other palette of choices. So far, I prefer the clean bluesy sound there too. I like it clean into the amp, and sometimes like to add a clean boost. But I need to learn more about adding overdrive/distortion/hair on that guitar too. It will come. I would like to get a Warren Haynes sound, and maybe a Setzer sound, and just some bad a$$ rock sounds dialed in, and learn to let that guitar's feedback howl at my command.

So I guess I want more than one tone. My tones will likely always be related "vintage" sounding tones I suppose.

[tot_Ou_tard]

I'm not looking to get anybody's tone in particular. What I do love is big, sweet, rich, & dimensional cleans with overtones & shimmer. I want the low strings to sound like funky bass strings & the top end to be sweet & shimmery. Perfection would be that plus a gradual, smooth & warm transition into overdrive.

Send me your amp that does this at basement-level playing. Thanks ;)

[kiteman]

What is tone? I think it's for the moment.

Tomorrow it may be different. I have two guitars, two amps (one a bass combo) and a well used adrenalinn box. For the moment, one of the guitars and one of the amps will appeal to me.

[just strum]

I'm with Kite. What is "My tone"? It changes with guitars, amps, settings of pedals and amp....

I'm not looking to sound like someone, just like certain sounds that I can make. I have favorite settings on my RP for each guitar and some settings that suit all the guitars.

[oldguy]

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How do you get it? I prefer a nice warm somewhat over driven tube tone Ala Jimmy Page. I get my tone by using My Hag and my Fender Gdec Jr. I haven't reached my dream tone yet but I'm getting closer. The Hag was a big step in the right direction. Speaking of Jimmy Page although he is known for playing a Les Paul did you know he recorded all of Led Zeps first album with a Tele? Talk about tone!!

I can only give you a fat old overworked construction worker's opinion.
Keep playing, tweak the knobs on your amp, and go with your instincts.
The standard amphs and guitars are popular for a reason.......they sound good. Move around and listen 10-20 feet in front of your amph as you play......the sound will change.
And, you already have the Page thing in mind,so you've got a good ear, and I'd say you're already on your way to finding your own tone........and it'll be great............just keep playing, you'll only improve.........

My tone would best be described as "minimal", I think.:rotflmao:

[kiteman]

By the way cobalt I still have my gdec jr. I have better gear now but I can't part with that fun little box. Too many memories.. sigh.

[cobalt]

By the way cobalt I still have my GDEC Jr. I have better gear now but I can't part with that fun little box. Too many memories.. sigh.
The Gdec is good for what it is. I really like the backing tracks.

[Plank_Spanker]

I really don't have a "signature tone". I play in a cover band with two amps - one a modeler.................I guess that makes me a chameleon.

I do have certain sounds I like, but I'd be hard pressed to define a signature tone. I play what sounds right.

[Andy]

I have my own style but can't say I have a specific tone

[Algonquin]

My tone? Are nails down a chalkboard considered a tone :confused:

[oldguy]

My tone? Are nails down a chalkboard considered a tone :confused:

STOP IT!!!


:D :D :D

[SuperSwede]

My tone? Are nails down a chalkboard considered a tone :confused:

*ahem* ever heard the band Velvet Underground? :D

[cobalt]

You guys crack me up! I'm glad I found this place! Thanks for all the great replies.

[R_of_G]

My tone? Are nails down a chalkboard considered a tone



*ahem* ever heard the band Velvet Underground?

I can think of many tones that Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison used that I would be thrilled to be able to emulate.

[ZMAN]

I knew I had "found" the tone I wanted when a good friend loaned me his 65 Deluxe reverb Reissue. I plugged in my Gibby Les Paul and my pedal board and the first note was sheer beauty. I loaned it for about a month and then when he took it back I went directly out and bought one for myself. I use a Fulltone Fulldrive II with a Boss DS1 and I sometimes use my fat boost and If I want really clean OD I use my OCD.
The blues tones I get are amazing. I still use my Blues Deluxe Reissue, and my Blues Junior Special edition but not as often as the 65.

[R_of_G]

Like some of the others, I don't have a specific singular tone. It depends a lot on which guitar I am playing and what the musical situation is. The fun for me comes in exploring any number of tones and then finding an appropriate way to play for each of them.

[Plank_Spanker]

The fun for me comes in exploring any number of tones and then finding an appropriate way to play for each of them.

I like to experiment, also. I've discovered some cool sounds by accident.

[kiteman]

Like some of the others, I don't have a specific singular tone. It depends a lot on which guitar I am playing and what the musical situation is. The fun for me comes in exploring any number of tones and then finding an appropriate way to play for each of them.

that sums it up about me. I like many genres and they have their own tone. I see 'em as moods and they're bright, happy, blue, sad, etc. The tone will befitted to the mood.

[R_of_G]

I like to experiment, also. I've discovered some cool sounds by accident.

Absolutely. Some of the more interesting tones I've found were the results of failed attempts to find other tones.

[marnold]

Unfortunately, I think my tone would have to be spelled "toan."

[Robert]

My tone is "single coil with a bit of gain". Using tube amps and a dirt pedal of some sort.

[hubberjub]

I mainly make noises. My straight up tone is pretty clean. Just on the edge of overdrive.

[warren0728]

My tone is "single coil with a bit of gain".
mine would be more like p90s with a bunch of pain.... :thwap:

[Robert]

Pain? Did some hot cooking oil splatter onto some sensitive body parts when you were making flapjacks this morning? :D


mine would be more like p90s with a bunch of pain.... :thwap:

[warren0728]

Pain? Did some hot cooking oil splatter onto some sensitive body parts when you were making flapjacks this morning? :D
i didn't have pancakes this morning.... :pancake: :bootyshake:

but my playing still made people feel pain.... :thwap:

[sumitomo]

That means your playing the blues son.Sumi:D

[Brian Krashpad]

I use all kinds of different guitars with a fairly wide range of pickups, most everything short of high-powered actives like EMG's; including Teles, Strats, alnico to ceramic humbuckers, P-90's, and a batch of other funky single-coils (Ric Hi-Gains, DeArmond 2000's, alnico toasters). At this point I pretty much only use tube amps for guitar. If I am using a master-volume amp I tend to use that for distortion, if I use a non-master volume tube amp (like my Fender and Sunn) then I'll use a pedal for dirt. Other than distortion or overdrive, I rarely use effects.

Oddly, no matter what guitar or amp I use, I tend to come out sounding like me anyhow.

[R_of_G]

Oddly, no matter what guitar or amp I use, I tend to come out sounding like me anyhow.

Demonstrating once more my belief that much more of a player's tone is derived from the player's technique than it is from the equipment he/she uses.

[kiteman]

Demonstrating once more my belief that much more of a player's tone is derived from the player's technique than it is from the equipment he/she uses.

I'd call it our trademarks. :rockon:

[Brian Krashpad]

Demonstrating once more my belief that much more of a player's tone is derived from the player's technique than it is from the equipment he/she uses.

I think that's a big part of it. The other thing, with me anyhow, is that, probably without realizing it, I know what sounds good to me, and I adjust amps accordingly, really without even thinking about it.

It's not like I have specific settings where I can do something like think, "well tonight I'm using an open-back 2x12 rather than a closed-back ported 1x15, therefore I'll change the settings from one to the other by doing xyz," but since I just set stuff by ear, it tends to all end up sounding as similar as possible without me really thinking about it.

[kerc]

I have no idea...P90's thru a Fender Blackface circuit...

[cherokee747]

Fender Strat- Blackface Bassman- Dab of Tubescreamer. Think Kid Ramos, Greasy Kid's Stuff tone.:rolleyes: Mike

[Katastrophe]

I'd like to think that "my tone" is a combination of whatevers going on with my head, heart and hands at the time I'm playing, regardless of guitar or amph.

I adjust the tools accordingly, and go from there.

I will now go to another area of the house and continue to be all "new agey."

:D

[Ro3b]

Clear and bright, like the sound of jackboots on wet cobblestones.

[oldguy]

I'd like to think that "my tone" is a combination of whatevers going on with my head, heart and hands at the time I'm playing, regardless of guitar or amph.

I adjust the tools accordingly, and go from there.

I will now go to another area of the house and continue to be all "new agey."

:D

Good description...........I'm the same w/ my playing....."tone"......whatever you want to label it. Plus it depends on how much time you have to dial in "your tone".

[markb]

Fender into Fender with something a little Marshally for overdrives (TS types, RATs). I sound nothing like SRV, if that's your idea of that combo. If given a non-Fender amp I immediately try to make it sound like one viz. what Brian said above.

[stingx]

If groove is in the heart then where is tone?

[Robert]

Tone is in the gut. Just don't puke it out! :D

[Spudman]

If groove is in the heart then where is tone?
New Mexico :D

Tone doesn't reside. It manifests as called.

[Jimi75]

90% of the time I play clean, maybe very slightly overdriven with the help of a pedal. I prefer warm cleans.