Chasing guys tones...

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We all do...but it seems it's more in the hands than the gear (to me).
For me tonewise (at this moment) it's EVH, Landau, Beck, Gibbons, Timmons, Page, Knopfler, DeLeo....many more

They would sound good to me through many different guitars/amps.

Example...EVH had a very different amp tone on the first 4 VH albums, but it was him that shone through....no?
 
Of course the person playing affects the tone, but so does the gear. You're going to sound more like old Metallica through a Mesa Mark series amp rather than a 5150 or a Bogner XTC for example.
 
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Megadeth7684":39e03 said:
Of course the person playing affects the tone, but so does the gear. You're going to sound more like old Metallica through a Mesa Mark series amp rather than a 5150 or a Bogner XTC for example.
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But if I dialed in a Mesa Mk to play some Randy Rhoads songs..and I played with the feel of Rhoads, would you know that was a Mk amp? ...or would you assume it was a Marshall?

I know I have a tone I like playing with and I tend to dial any amp I play with to get close to that tone.
 
All I know is that the clip that Ralph posted with my JVM with the same type of guitar is not what I get, not even close.


Ted Nugent was running around EVH's back plugging into his rig and trying to find the secret box.


It was said that one's vibrato is one's guitar sig.

Nobody is going to change my mind....tone when it comes down to it comes from the player.
 
not necessarily, I thought for years that the Whitesake album (the one with Still of the Night) was a modded Marshall....turns out it was a Mark III Coliseum head....
 
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The Big Snit":a70f1 said:
:|::QBB:But if I dialed in a Mesa Mk to play some Randy Rhoads songs..and I played with the feel of Rhoads, would you know that was a Mk amp? ...or would you assume it was a Marshall.?
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Dunno. I'm just saying that using similar gear to a tone you're trying to achieve is usually going to get you closer to that tone IMO.
 
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Digital Jams":aed2a said:
All I know is that the clip that Ralph posted with my JVM with the same type of guitar is not what I get, not even close.


Ted Nugent was running around EVH's back plugging into his rig and trying to find the secret box.


It was said that one's vibrato is one's guitar sig.

Nobody is going to change my mind....tone when it comes down to it comes from the player.
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Ralph got a great tone with the JVM...did everyone that heard the clip buy the JVM to get that amp tone?...or to get the hands that made that clip sound the way it did?

Does that make sense? :D
 
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The Big Snit":0b758 said:
:|::QBB:But if I dialed in a Mesa Mk to play some Randy Rhoads songs..and I played with the feel of Rhoads, would you know that was a Mk amp? ...or would you assume it was a Marshall?

I know I have a tone I like playing with and I tend to dial any amp I play with to get close to that tone.
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Ed has a clip going between a Bassman and a Soldano and told us to guess which was which.........lots of owning on that thread ;)
 
Haven't we done this to death?
This is what I take as conclusive for my needs...an A/B between my BF Bassman with a pedal and and Avenger...
http://www.eddegenaro.com/audio/abback.mp3
 
if we all believed that tone was in the fingers we wouldn't be on gear boards like these
 
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Digital Jams":73a98 said:
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Ed has a clip going between a Bassman and a Soldano and told us to guess which was which.........lots of owning on that thread ;)
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Beat me to the punch on that one Scott. :)
 
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The Big Snit":b8101 said:
:|::QBB:Ralph got a great tone with the JVM...did everyone that heard the clip buy the JVM to get that amp tone?...or to get the hands that made that clip sound the way it did?

Does that make sense? :D
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I went to the same guy for lessons, that answer your question ;)
 
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degenaro":15dbb said:
Haven't we done this to death?
This is what I take as conclusive for my needs...an A/B between my BF Bassman with a pedal and and Avenger...
http://www.eddegenaro.com/audio/abback.mp3
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That's my boy :)
 
I'm just saying really...when someone wants an EVH tone...I wonder which one?
He sounded very different through the years, yet we could tell instantly from a few licks that it was him.
 
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evhfan":eeb9a said:
if we all believed that tone was in the fingers we wouldn't be on gear boards like these
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Dude, I so don't subscribe to that. I can get exactly what I need to hear out of the majority of gear out there. Where the reason for spending the bred lays for me is in how the amp responds.
 
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degenaro":8f483 said:
Haven't we done this to death?
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With all the amp buying and selling that goes on, I think it's good to step back and wonder if the person playing the amp can improve their tone rather than go through amps like nasty whores. :D
 
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degenaro":d731e said:
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Dude, I so don't subscribe to that. I can get exactly what I need to hear out of the majority of gear out there. Where the reason for spending the bred lays for me is in how the amp responds.
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how the amp responds = tone
 
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The Big Snit":10af4 said:
I'm just saying really...when someone wants an EVH tone...I wonder which one?
He sounded very different through the years, yet we could tell instantly from a few licks that it was him.
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Case in point.......

VHOHOLIC.

He was nailing old EVH with a 5150 combo with a blanket over it, it was the verb he used and his technic.
 
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The Big Snit":5bc55 said:
I'm just saying really...when someone wants an EVH tone...I wonder which one?
He sounded very different through the years, yet we could tell instantly from a few licks that it was him.
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Yeah but that's style. But tell you what when you hear say a Brian May solo in the car next to you a a stop light you know it's Brian May. Now that shit IS money!
 
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