The Worst Guitar Tone You Have Ever Heard?

monquixote

Bucket said:

monquixote said:

A single sized humbucker doesn't have to overpower anything. 

I have a Lil59 in one of my Strats and it's pretty tame. The only problem is that they are ceramic and have very fine wire so they don't sound much like a PAF. 

My dad's Strat has a Little 59 and it's a lot louder than the other two pickups... I guess it can all be changed, it's just the impression I seem to have cultivated of them.

I think it depends what you have around them. 

The strat I have with a Lil59 has a couple of Texas Locos in it and they are louder than it despite not being mega output.

There is also an advantage to an HSS strat with a hot bridge in that you get some different levels to work with. 

beed84

Never been a fan of Mike Stern's tone.  I wish he'd turn his bloody chorus pedal off and buy a decent valve amp.

Antique_Guitars

Lixarto said:

Bucket said: I don't know what you mean. Examples?

I am, thankfully, not an expert in these matters. Isis seem to sum it up though. Sludgy, ill-defined nonsense.

But I mean the "music" as much as they actual guitar sound. Just fucking terrible.

@Lixarto bands like ISIS are Post Metal really and other than some parts (softish bits) are pretty different to a lot of post rock stuff. Like all genres over time bands get pretty generic and samey but if you go back to some of the early stuff that coined the genre then it get a bt more interesting.

This is what I consider to be post rock from back in the 90's (Listen to the whole track)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yomowCF5icY

xSkarloey

Seconded on the general yuckiness of Mike Stern's tone and every other jazzer from the 80s on who are over-reliant on chorussed sounds.

Chorus plus distortion I find a love-hate thing. Can anyone offer me an example to help me overcome this phobia?

bertie

Jazzers  law of  "bass on 10 treble on 0"    I hate it even more than that EVH era  'uber delay scoop'

Phil_aka_Pip

I liked Roy Buchanan's sound. I never liked Neil Young's. For me, bad tone is the first 2 tracks on the live Runrig album (wheel in motion IIIRC), until the sound crew get him sorted.

daveyh

ICBM said:

Give me a nasty buzz-saw fuzz any day...

Give that man a cigar etc

Kerpunk

Metal. 

I have never heard a metal tone and thought wow I wish my guitar sounded like that.

richardhomer

Kerpunk;183023" said:

Metal. 

I have never heard a metal tone and thought wow I wish my guitar sounded like that.

Wisdom awarded!

Reverend

I'm guessing your awareness of metal is perhaps a little limited?

RocknRollDave

Try saying "worst guitar tone you have ever heard" without saying "Kirk Hammett".

DrJazzTap said:

For me though, its the opening solo of this song. I grew up on Metallica but even when i was a whipper snapper I never liked this solo. I'm not sure if it's the horrendous lack of musical vibrato or the shocking pentatonic note choice.....but yes this one 


%-(

Also, @Bucket is spot on re Zakk Wylde. I like his playing on No More Tears, I even like BLS, but Jesus he needs to learn subtlety and finesse....


One tone I detest, but not so much a particular player so much as a generic tone, is that 80's "clean electric with chorus and delay" a la the verses in Whitesnake Here I Go Again. Just....ewwww.

ICBM

RocknRollDave said:

One tone I detest, but not so much a particular player so much as a generic tone, is that 80's "clean electric with chorus and delay" a la the verses in Whitesnake Here I Go Again. Just....ewwww.

Actually I was wrong earlier. I must have blanked "Is This Love?" out of my mind, because in fact it contains both the worst clean and the worst distorted guitar sounds ever recorded.

Reverend

The guitar tones on Here I Go Again are killer. I fear you mean the appalling cover version by John Kalodner's Poodles.

Lixarto

Reverend said:

The guitar tones on Here I Go Again are killer. I fear you mean the appalling cover version by John Kalodner's Poodles.

Well played, sir. Whitesnake up to 1984 have a great sound - bright, articulate humbuckers and That Hammond. Not to forget a bassist who could be clever and innovative without going "Look at me! I'm playing the bass all over this!"

Phil_aka_Pip

Some of FZ's tones were deliberately set up to be "blasphemous" (his word). I'd be hard-pressed to find a use for some of them. However I don't think I ever heard him using a sound that didn't fit his music.

bertie

Lixarto said:

Reverend said:

The guitar tones on Here I Go Again are killer. I fear you mean the appalling cover version by John Kalodner's Poodles.

Well played, sir. Whitesnake up to 1984 have a great sound - bright, articulate humbuckers and That Hammond. Not to forget a bassist who could be clever and innovative without going "Look at me! I'm playing the bass all over this!"

bert gives Zap a wisdom shock horror

RocknRollDave

OK, point taken, you pedantic lot! I meant, of course, the naff late 80's re-recording.

Or did I mean Is This Love? ...?

Ah anyway, bad Whitesnake has bad guitar tones on. I keep meaning to listen to the early stuff (Bernie Marsden, right?) but haven't got round to it yet.

bertie

RocknRollDave said:

 I keep meaning to listen to the early stuff (Bernie Marsden, right?) but haven't got round to it yet.

Moody/Marsden  =  sublime,   add Paice/Lord and you get damn near perfection

xSkarloey

The Moody/ Marsden partnership is absolutely killer and they were a pretty soulful band.

Must say tjough I love John Sykes's tone from the 1987 era. Very...erm....'metallic'!

RocknRollDave

OK, so Moody/ Marsden era, what albums should I be looking at?