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    Posted: April 13 2013 at 14:01
Name some of your favorite guitar tones.

Some of mine are:
Al Di Meola
Steve Howe
Steve Hackett
Greg Lake (Specifically in Tarkus)
Conny Veit (Specifically with Popol Vuh)
Guthrie Govan
Francis Lickerish
Dave Gregory (Specifically with Big Big Train)

Some specific to certain solos:
Johan Hallgren: The solo about 4 and half minutes in to Idioglossia.
David Zackrisson: The solo about 10 and a half minutes into Sleeping in Traffic.
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Dave Gilmour (especially Echoes. Subliminal.)
Andy Latimer
Mikael Akerfeldt
Steve Hackett (especially Firth of Fifth)
Marc T. (especially Wings of Lead Over Dormant Seas)
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My single favorite prog guitar tone is Bob Fripp's singing sustain from his 1957 Les Paul Custom, played through the original "Fripp Pedalboard" including "the cheapest fuzz-tone you can buy" (his words)!  This is a perfect example (at 23 seconds):
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Ya, the tone mentioned above in Starless is great.  My favorite is the tone Fripp gets in the final solo section of "Exiles" live on "USA".  It's actually easy to do, just use the bridge pickup with the tone rolled completely off.  Of course, a minor detail is you'll also need a 57 Les Paul Custom Fretless Wonder/Black Beauty Wink

Also, David Gilmour's tone in the solo on "Time"...



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David Gilmour for sure.  Anybody familiar with his contribution to the McCartney ballad 'No More Lonely Nights' ??  Gilmour smokes on that one..............
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Steve Howe
Gary Green
Alex Lifeson
David Gilmour

Are some of my very favorites and they have some of my favorite tones too Smile
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Fripp
Gilmour
Oldfield
Hillage
Latimer
Ed Wynne (Ozric Tentacles)
Ian Fitch (The Future Kings Of England)
Mike Johnson (Thinking Plague)



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Jimi Hendrix
David Gilmour
Mick Ronson
Ritchie Blackmore
Tony Iommi
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Iommi powerful overdrive in "Sabotage" album, and in B. Sabbath song "Over To You"

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The first Guitar Tone I can remember loving was (although the tones are all quite varied) Trey Spruance's on "King For a Day... Fool For a Lifetime" by Faith No More. 

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Andy Latimer
Tony Iommi
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Originally posted by jayem jayem wrote:

Iommi powerful overdrive in "Sabotage" album, and in B. Sabbath song "Over To You"

Nice pick, fully agree
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some off the beaten track ones-

Helmut Koellen-live version of The Deadly Dream Of Freedom
Leigh Stephens-Babylon (not prog, though)
Eddy Marron-Time Machine
Dave Clempson-Skellington (live)

those come to mind off the bat, must be others


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Robert Fripp
Leslie West
George Benson
Dave Mason
Shawn Lane
Jan Akkerman
Martin Barre
Frank Gambale
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Fripp, especially on SABB, one of the reasons I love that album. I believe it's similar to his tone on LTIA. Also, his tone on Islands is amazing.
Barre for sure. Classic RnR tone.
Gilmour, but only when he uses echo/reverb and multi-tracking ("Dogs", "Echoes").
Hackett (specifically in the intro of "Tigermoth").
Gary Green (when soloing on "The House, The Street, The Room" and "Peel the Paint").
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Steve Hackett by far. It's one of the things that makes him my favorite guitarist. Latimer, Roine Stolt, Lifeson, Pete Townsend, and of course Gilmour are up there as well.
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Alex Lifeson as of Hemispheres
Robert Fripp as of Red
Aaaaand I'm drawing a blank after that.
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Hackett, Fripp, Howe, Lifeson, all the obvious ones.  I also love Dave Bainbridge's soaring tone; it's beautiful and fits Iona's music perfectly.  Greg Massi from maudlin of the Well deserves a mention, as he has a beastly metallic tone that really accentuates the signature Toby Driver crashing guitar parts.  Omar Rodriguez-Lopez also tends to have really great strident tones.

Non-prog: Kurt Cobain (incredible wall-of-sound tone), Stevie Ray Vaughan (self-explanatory), Neil Schon (from Journey; great and underrated guitarist).
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I failed to mention Latimer's tone on "Summer Lightning" and "The Sleeper".
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