Who’s style - tone do you chase?

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Inquiring minds want to know,
I don’t care if you’re a rock legend, all of us look up to someone and strive to do it like they did.
Which band/player and album are the holy grail for you?
My own, usually... I find tones that make me wanna play till my fingers are burger. Them thar's the right toanz for me.
 
I play mostly funk. But whenever I tune in a amp it's always this sound first.

 
VH II, Dancin Undercover, Whiplash Smile...so basically kick ass Plexi Greenback tones.
 
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No one really. Influences and techniques/ideas that I try to pluck from people, but that's in an attempt to sound like me, which I'm still trying to figure out. Maybe I should have just copied someone haha

I don't tone chase anything either but the sound in my head, which is tight high gain with some chunk, a fast response, a good mix of clarity without being annoyingly uncompressed and a smoother top end. KSR and the Mesa Mark IV nail that sound for me. I think the VH4 would have too if I had more time with it before having to give it back to my buddy.

Clean tones I'm less picky, but the California Tweed is probably my favorite. R2 on the Mark IV with some EQ out front is also great, and of course the Mark V. The Bogner XTC also has a great clean channel when you gun the master and use the gain for volume. VH4 has a nice clean, and so do KSR amps...Definitely less picky about cleans haha
 
Depends on the song I’m workin’ on but Gilmour, Cantrell, Dimebag, Wylde, Hetfield and Petrucci are generally in there somewhere.

I’m not a big tone chaser, it just has to work for the song and I’m stoked.

Actually, the solo in this song is a perfect example of mixing those guys up; there’s Gilmour/Dimebag shit all throughout it, the Dimebag stuff being mostly the little things like the bar dump or the very end pull-ups.

(Solo starters after the quick noodle)
 
My number 1. album is Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time . I had long searching before 15 years and find the original gear to recreate that unique tone in my music room. This is the instant Somewhere in Time tone:
 

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Depends on the song I’m workin’ on but Gilmour, Cantrell, Dimebag, Wylde, Hetfield and Petrucci are generally in there somewhere.

I’m not a big tone chaser, it just has to work for the song and I’m stoked.

Actually, the solo in this song is a perfect example of mixing those guys up; there’s Gilmour/Dimebag shit all throughout it, the Dimebag stuff being mostly the little things like the bar dump or the very end pull-ups.

(Solo starters after the quick noodle)

Nice playing but that shirt…it’s like wearing the wrong colors in the wrong neighborhood homie.
 
Tone: sykes.
Abilities… any and all.
Tuff road ahead for me
 
Hetfield's tight rhythm and palm mutes
Slash's sustain
EVH tone
 
Nice playing but that shirt…it’s like wearing the wrong colors in the wrong neighborhood homie.

I don't disagree, but in this particular case the shirt was a fundraiser for Todd Bishop's (RIP BROTHER!!!!) cancer treatments.
 
Kirk Windstein and Pepper Keenan doing the first Down album.

Sammy Duet doing the Acid Bath stuff.

And Dime.
Kirk and Pepper both have killer tone. Sammy’s Goatwhore tome is also amazing.
 
Lynch, Takasaki, Hetfield, Schaffer, Helloween (both Weikath and Hansen), Waters and Smith........(to name a few!)
 
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