Whose tone do you try to emulate?

[snow and steel]

I try to emulate my tone.

That elusive one - in my head. I never quite get it but I keep trying. once I'm 99% there, I discover there's something else I'm needing or looking for.

 

[BACzero]

Maybe I'm just weird, but I have never tried to make my guitar sound like anyone else's. I adjust my gear to sound the way I like it and that's how I play.

 

[Farquad]

which Warren tone? Last 10 years or early 90's... somehow it is different to me. Maybe he just played with more testosterone in the early 90's?

Specifically either solo in Captured.

 

[jbash]

Some kind of conglomeration/Happy medium between these three doodz. Late 60s, to mid 70s Gibsons. NMV Marshalls, G12ms.


Schenker
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP5ikQpTR3c]UFO - Phenomenon - 05 - Rock Bottom (1974) - YouTube[/ame]

Robbo
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGe7DfyaOqc]Thin Lizzy - Emerald - Live 1976 - A Night On The Town TV Broadcast - YouTube[/ame]

Lerxst
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOcuShhCSd8]RUSH ~ Live ~ Working Man ~ 1974 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[rpm28]

I try my best to get rpm28's tone....whatever that may be.

 

[BWGuitars]

I don't particularly try to emulate that much, but I wouldn't be too sad if I was able to get the smooth beefiness of Baroness' tone combined with the aggressive nature of early Mastodon. That'd be pretty neat.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qii59-7JAM"]BARONESS - "A Horse Called Golgotha" (Official Music Video) - YouTube[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFtBjI03v4c[/ame]

 

[neoclassical]

Some kind of conglomeration/Happy medium between these three doodz. Late 60s, to mid 70s Gibsons. NMV Marshalls, G12ms.


Schenker
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP5ikQpTR3c]UFO - Phenomenon - 05 - Rock Bottom (1974) - YouTube[/ame]

That is one of my favorite albums. -I originally bought it for the cover.

 

[SteveC]

I get where you're going with this but I have to disagree somewhat.
For me, even if I get good enough to nail those epic solos that I aspire to, I still don't want to sound just like the original artist.
Imitation may be the most sincere form of flattery but I need to get some form of myself in there too. If my cover of Battery doesn't sound like Hammett is playing it, it's because he's not. I am.

I hear ya but, your audience wants to hear it that way

When I play for myself, I play my sounds, my way. When I play for people, I play what they pay to hear Or, at least as close to it as I can!

 

[James R]

I hear ya but, your audience wants to hear it that way

When I play for myself, I play my sounds, my way. When I play for people, I play what they pay to hear Or, at least as close to it as I can!

Fair enough! If I was a paid musician I'm sure I'd be more inclined to do the same. I have a long road to travel before I'd be ready for that though.

 

[rabidhamster]

I strive to emulate Stevie Ray Vaughn's tone from his Thrash Metal days with Steve Winwood.

When I play acoustic guitar, I go for emulating more of a delicate easy listening sound. Think Dimebag from Vulgar display tone mixed with Lemmy from Motörhead

 

[drpietrzak]

I am sure there is someone. But, it is mostly that haunting tone in my head I try to get out! I will have a trial of new meds to see if that helps.

 

[circles]

Depends on the context. Normally I try not to emulate (unless covering), but sometimes I 'secretly' draw on splashes of what inspired me in the past, such as Gilmour or Lifeson when I need to to get me through a wall or over a bump. Those influences were more important earlier, and I still love those guys, but I'd like to paint my own pictures in the long run.

Page is in there, Harrison and others, many I don't even know their names, but I'm such a bottom feeder really, I am not able to channel specific influences articulately. ha ha! "Don't forget to tip your bartender!"

 

[EasyAce]

I have my influences but I only ever wanted one tone---my own. And when I finally found it, I had (and have) no intention of letting it go, whether I'm playing my own blues or covering a blues number I happen to love and happens to mean something to me.

That's whether I'm playing alone for myself or playing for people. And I guess I chose the right way, after all. I got the unexpected proof Monday night.

I was in a kind of blues competition, aimed at filling out a bill for a benefit blues gig toward the end of this month. The categories were bands, soloists, and vocalists. Since I don't have my own new band solidified just yet, and since my rhythm section-to-be couldn't make it, I was slid into the competition in the soloist category by the lady who put it together. (She happens to be a friend and urged me to play, anyway.) With three other players who happened to be there, and to know me, agreeing to play with me.

I got a very nice reaction to my little set. But I was stunned beyond belief to learn afterward that I got the most votes of any contestant in any category, from the four judges and from the audience alike. And I was even playing all original songs in the bargain!

I guess maybe I am doing something right, after all. I'm still amazed, actually.

 

[mdubya]

Tone wise

Hendrix
Angus
Iommi
Leigh Stephens
Ron Asheton
Daniel Ash

and a little bit of early Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page.

I find it is more the way you play that gets the tone than the gear. The gear helps, though.

 

[S.A.T.O.]

The tone I love is Randy Rhoads tone on the Tribute album.

 

[RedSkwirrell]

I'm just happy getting threads into the most appropriate forum.
Screw tone.

 

[KP11520]

I'm just happy getting threads into the most appropriate forum.
Screw tone.

Skwirrell... That Ninja just ain't you!

I want Red back!

Until then.... Screw everything.

But wait, didn't you claim everything screwable a few weeks ago? LOL

Hope all is well!

 

[Sinster]

I don't give a f who I emulate. I just want to be able to play.

 

[Epi rocks]

I'm kinda partial to my own tones actually.
I do, however, like the tones from the late Gary Moore.

 

[Thomas/Sweden]

I'm very influenced by Michael Schenker and Gary Moore, which also are John Norum's influences so I really like his style too. Can't help sounding European, it's in the blood.