The Sweetest, Most Pleasing Tones Of Your Life??

[la szum]

For me, it is right now. I am floored and blown away by the tones I am able to get consistently,
easily, and in multiple formats.

It's instant and consistent.

Had some great tones in the past that I loved, but it was never as consistent as they are now? Is
it experience? Better gear? An older, more easily pleased me? An aggregation of all of those factors?

How about you? When, where, why, and how did you get the sweetest, most pleasing (or crushing!)
tones of your life up until now?

 

[Warmart]

Outstanding, @la szum !im sure it's many factors, but very glad to hear!

Some of you may be offended, and I wouldn't call them "sweet", lmao - but QC Fortin Nameless was made just for me and I'm spending more time playing, and way less preset surfing.

 

[LeftyLoungeLizard]

Pay obeisance to your Crystal Lettuce Tone God for blessing you with

The Sweetest, Most Pleasing Tones Of Your Life​

 

[TSJMajesty]

The times I've stood in front of 2 4x12 cabs run in stereo, cranked, be it Marshall or Mesa.
Especially when I do it outside (Mesa) and hear the reverberation coming back at me through the woods behind my house. Now THAT is a glorious tone!

 

[Warmart]

The times I've stood in front of 2 4x12 cabs run in stereo, cranked, be it Marshall or Mesa.
Especially when I do it outside (Mesa) and hear the reverberation coming back at me through the woods behind my house. Now THAT is a glorious tone!

 

[TubeStack]

My Electra Dyne into my Mesa Trad 4x12 is pretty incredible, as I’ve mentioned a lot.

And honestly, my Mark VII yesterday on Ch 2, MKVII mode, with the VP4’s delays in the loop, was one of the best tones I’ve ever had (73 LP Custom, original T-Tops).

 

[Jarick]

A couple fun ones stand out.

One was the first time I realized how you're supposed to actually use a boost pedal running into a DSL50 and 4x12, turning up the Marshall on the clean channel until it started to overdrive then hitting with an SD-1. Just a major kick ass sound.

Another was this weird little class A amp from the 80's called a Bedrock, and it was the nicest clean tone I ever heard. Just the sound in my head, a warm squishy tube clean. I actually stumbled upon one a few weeks ago and this particular one was in awful shape, really noisy, and bad.

 

[LeftyLoungeLizard]

Hm. I do Tone Laboratorying so I'm always fucking around with shit and I've also been tone cloning for decades.

I've got a bunch of combinations (and I can't remember them all) that please the Tone Gawdz so here's some:

'68 Plexi circuit w/tube rectifier
+MXR 6-band EQ
+Wampler EQuator
+Catalinbread Naga Viper
+MXR CBMOD
+Danelectro Breakdown
+BOSS OD-1 clone
+BadgerFX 1011

'66 Fender Deluxe
+built-in tremolo
+Friedman BEODD
+BOSS OD-1 clone
+ProCo RAT
+J Rockett The Dude
+J Rockett Archer IKON

ADA MP-1 S.S. clean
ADA MP-1 tube distortion
+ProCo RAT

SR&D Rockman Sustainor clean
+SR&D Rockman Stereo Chorus
+SR&D Rockman Stereo Echo

NAM using Mesa Boogie MkIII redstripe profile

NDSP Fortin Cali
NDSP Mesa Boogie MkIIc+/++
NDSP Fortin Nameless

Softube Marshall 2203
Softube Marshall Plexi

and wayyyy back in the day late 80's with a boosted, cranked Marshall 2210 into a 4x12 cab.

 

[metropolis_4]

Nothing will ever be better than the first time I ever plugged into an AC30. That moment is burned into my memory and it forever changed my path as a guitarist.

 

[Stone]

Well for me there is no one glorious one, it changes from song to song, from Iommi, to Schon to EVH to Deleo to Gilmour
So for me all the tones are glorious

 

[duzie]

Does an acoustic guitar count

 

[FuzzyAce]

For me, it is right now. I am floored and blown away by the tones I am able to get consistently,
easily, and in multiple formats.

It's instant and consistent.

Had some great tones in the past that I loved, but it was never as consistent as they are now? Is
it experience? Better gear? An older, more easily pleased me? An aggregation of all of those factors?

How about you? When, where, why, and how did you get the sweetest, most pleasing (or crushing!)
tones of your life up until now?

It's hard to disagree with this... I'm trying to figure a way to, but I can't?

Never before have I had the plethora or tones that I enjoy than at this moment. We live in great times for gear choice.

 

[la szum]

Question: Can tones in isolation (outside of a musical/band context) be great?

And how would we really know??

Not poking a bear here. Just super curious.

Is salt great on its own or better and more "pleasing" when paired with something
sweet or spicy or sour?

For instance, I think it feels great to play super loud sometimes in isolation, but I never think
it is a great tone. Sometimes it just feels too much. Too heavy, dense, and present.

 

[la szum]

For instance, one time I showed up at practice and my friend was dialing in his rig.
It sounded amazing. Then I realized he was playing so loud that the snare was rattling
like a motherfucker, and as soon as I noticed the snare rattling I could kind of only
hear the snare rattling. Suddenly his tone wasn't that great.

 

[TSJMajesty]

Another awesome tone, if I remember this right (haven't played the amp in a while) is on the Dual Rec MW, clean channel, Volume dimed, then bring in just enough gain to start breakup, and use the guitar volume and picking for dynamics.

Never would've thought a DR could do that so well!

 

[sleewell]

i had my 6505s pre and post gain at 5 into two 4x12s last show. it was devastating.

 

[LeftyLoungeLizard]

Question: Can tones in isolation (outside of a musical/band context) be great?

And how would we really know??

All depends on how it sounds in the room.

 

[PLX]

Does an acoustic guitar count

 

[DrewJD82]

Question: Can tones in isolation (outside of a musical/band context) be great?

And how would we really know??

Not poking a bear here. Just super curious.

Is salt great on its own or better and more "pleasing" when paired with something
sweet or spicy or sour?

For instance, I think it feels great to play super loud sometimes in isolation, but I never think
it is a great tone. Sometimes it just feels too much. Too heavy, dense, and present.

Well, I love the way that GE Dover Drive sounds coming out of a real cab, but I’ve yet to capture the same sound using IR’s/DynaCabs. I can get pretty damn close with the DynaCabs and the question isn’t modeler/amp because I love it going into the FM9 and coming out of cabs.

I’d consider that a great tone, though I have no clue what it sounds like in isolation. I know I’d definitely need to chop some low end off it to sit in a mix and I’m curious how it would work in a band setting due to the more scooped nature of it, but on its own it’s quite pleasing.