Best examples of high gain single coil sounds?

TTBZ

ICBM

guitarcookie1 said:

Richie Blackmore?

Also not high gain.

fnpt

Bauhaus. A tele on steroids

tekbow

artiebear

Gary Moore "Corridors of Power". A huge tone from the old red strat..

Jota

ICBM said:

guitarcookie1 said:

Richie Blackmore?

Also not high gain.

Really?!

Those lead parts are pretty heavy!

fretmeister

Jota said:

ICBM said:

guitarcookie1 said:

Richie Blackmore?

Also not high gain.

Really?!

Those lead parts are pretty heavy!

Not even close to high gain.

ICBM

Jota said:

Really?!

Those lead parts are pretty heavy!

But not high gain. And the rhythm parts - what fretmeister was asking about - are almost clean.

Either that or you and I have a *very* different idea of what gain is. Although for what it's worth, I also use *clean* sounds, and I mean clean - not "rock'n'roll clean" like that.

High gain for me means something like Steve Vai's typical solo sound, where the dynamics and tone variation are more or less completely eliminated.

stickyfiddle

Matt Bellamy does a lot of fuzzy things with P90s

TTBZ

Telecasters are pretty popular for djent I think, the hardness/twanginess helps with the percussive nature of the riffing. 

HerrMetal

Bernie Torme. Proper old school noisy Strat tones. 

EricTheWeary

HerrMetal said:

Bernie Torme. Proper old school noisy Strat tones. 

I love a bit of Bernie and saw him live several times but I doubt if he got really high gain? Maybe some of the GMT stuff. 

elusivelight

Smashing Pumpkins are a decent shout in their early days but James Iha was also using a Les Paul Custom so not sure how much is really SC tone. 

HerrMetal

EricTheWeary said:

HerrMetal said:

Bernie Torme. Proper old school noisy Strat tones. 

I love a bit of Bernie and saw him live several times but I doubt if he got really high gain? Maybe some of the GMT stuff. 

As you say, recorded GMT tracks like Cannonball or Can't Beat Rock 'n' Roll.  I mean it's probably not high gain by modern metal standards but then I don't like most modern metal.  Maybe I'm substituting 'dirty' for 'high gain' . Anyway he was great live.

guitarmangler

Winny_Pooh said:

IIRC most of the Tom Morello Drop D songs are his tele into a JCM800

All of morello’s/rage high gain riff sounds are neck single coil. He only uses the bridge for lead.

rlw

Sounds quite high gain to me.

RandallFlagg

Daniel Ash with Bauhaus? Fender Tele through HH amp

racefaceec90

what about j mascis and nels cline playing jazzmasters. they have created some great sounds with them (and 8000 pedals too :-)

Jota

fretmeister said:

Jota said:

ICBM said:

guitarcookie1 said:

Richie Blackmore?

Also not high gain.

Really?!

Those lead parts are pretty heavy!

Not even close to high gain.

OP
 mentions YJM and I don't hear much more gain on his sounds than Blackmore.

StefB

Scandinavian players influenced by Blackmore would seem a good place to look.  Malmsteen and John Norum in particular - the guitar solo in The Final Countdown is scorching Strat single coils switching between neck and bridge throughout.

In a similar vein, the last four Royal Hunt albums (since Jonas Larsen joined) are exclusively high gain Strat rhythm and solo single coil tones.