Might be in the wrong section but when you plug in your guitar into your amp, what sound makes you smile? It is clean, not too much top and a little breakup. Early Eagles or Luther Perkins. On bass it is a traditional 50s, 60s or 70s thump. Most easily got from a Fender Precision. Which is why I have one.
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Think AC/DC live.
OK, I'm joking - gain not on max, treble not quite on max
Or
EL34 overdrive through an orange. Either a strat or a les Paul get me there.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
dead clean no breakup but fat, with delay/verb/maybe chorus for sort of fusioney chords,
thick juicy lead with not a lot of hair and a stereo delay of some sort (I like to stack multiple overdrives into a high headroom clean amp for this, but recently I've found a Buffalo TDX sort of handles this on its own),
super dry high gain where a palm muted E5 blasts the windows out,
phase 90->ep preamp->echo->cranked JCM 800
But I really can't play mid gain "crunch" kind of sounds, it always feels to me like it's neither nowt nor summat as my old grandad used to say. Not about guitar tones, I hasten to add.
1) Robben Ford - bridge
2) Nile Rodgers - bridge and middle
3) Generic Strat middle p/up tone (I like it, OK... Don't hate)
4) Peter Green - bridge and neck
5) BB King - bridge and neck
6) Grant Green - neck
I haven't quite nailed the right guitar / pickup combination yet - but I'm getting there, I'm getting there...
This is my go to sound mainly;
Rhythm - a bit bass-heavy, quite a bit of gain (but not as much as most metallers will go for - I like clarity), mids about mid, enough treble and presence to let the gain shine through.
Lead - 520ms-ish delay, loads of gain almost to the point of feeding back, but smooth and not piercing.
The Soldano-ish sound is what I go for, hence the Jet City amps with the bright caps removed. Can't get away from it, that's just my tone and always will be.
Bass is clean, bass heavy with a touch of hi band flange and enough gain to get some valve fuzz going when I attack the strings hard.
Overdrive compressed chorus delay reverb. Thick juicy wide lead tones.
For clean it's a smooth but chimey sound with a touch of analogue delay.
Definitely humbuckers.
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I don't think the bigger Night Train models sounded quite the same as the Lil Night Train (though that's based only on YouTube, would be happy to be proven wrong!!), it's such a shame it doesn't feature a decent line out without dummy loading it to use with a bigger power amp or to add reverb etc etc
Then some where between Petrucci (again) and Zakk Wylde for lead tones.
I don't try to sound like them but I feel I'm some what in that ball park.
I very rarely use clean tones but I always remember loving a Strat through a big Fender amp for that huge Fender 'thud'
Edit.... But aiming for SRV/Mayer Clean to Zep/AC/DC Dirty
https://youtu.be/ho56osrcKdc
I hardly ever actually plug in, but...
My favourite sound - which would probably be completely useless in any practical situation - is neck humbucker, lots of distortion, guitar's tone control on zero so it really sings with very little "attack" when the strings are picked.
Bridge pickup would be completely different, distorted but tight and crunchy, much brighter but not painfully so.
For cleans I prefer single-coil sounds, but "nice" sounding, not too bright or thin. Again I tend to turn the tone control down a bit. I like Tele neck pickups...
https://youtu.be/P5frIyOEwZ4