Yesterdays-Civil-War Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 It's Slash in my mind. Then Robin.Paul Tobias of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerage5 Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Slash and Robin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno P. Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Now even Slash's tone is the greatest thing in history gotta love GnR boards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
star Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Slash's tone is the greatest followed by Buckethead's.Slash is Guns N'RosesBuckethead put the greatest spin on all his GN'R cover work - Nightrain being his most outstanding moment. I just loved how Bucket wasn't trying to be Slash, he simply took a Gn'R song and (to coin an X-Factor phrase) made it his own On the CD songs, Robin is where it is at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoSoRose Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 I like em allSlash's is the best, though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosaj Thing Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Slash's tone on UYI is probably the best guitar tone in history.Do you mean the tone he used throughout the UYI tour? Because on the record his tone is not that good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlrod Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 (edited) Slash's tone is the greatest followed by Buckethead's.1. Slash2. Buckethead3. xxx- nothing follows -xxxI hope the best for DJ (next album) but expect the worst. Edited March 28, 2014 by axlrod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR DOOM Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Slash's tone on UYI is probably the best guitar tone in history.Dunno about that, but it was certainly up there and certainly something special...fuck he sounds great on those albums. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosaj Thing Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Slash's tone on UYI is probably the best guitar tone in history.Dunno about that, but it was certainly up there and certainly something special...fuck he sounds great on those albums.He sounded great on the albums but he sounded incredible on tour. His gold-top had an incredible tone and a particular strong, fat sustain - the best I have heard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlrod Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Slash's tone on UYI is probably the best guitar tone in history.Dunno about that, but it was certainly up there and certainly something special...fuck he sounds great on those albums.He sounded great on the albums but he sounded incredible on tour. His gold-top had an incredible tone and a particular strong, fat sustain - the best I have heard.The reason why current GNR requires 3 lead-guitarists to match the studio version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhiad85 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Slash's tone on UYI is probably the best guitar tone in history.Dunno about that, but it was certainly up there and certainly something special...fuck he sounds great on those albums.He sounded great on the albums but he sounded incredible on tour. His gold-top had an incredible tone and a particular strong, fat sustain - the best I have heard.The reason why current GNR requires 3 lead-guitarists to match the studio version.Including the sickly 17 year old girl in your avatar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR DOOM Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Actually it's the same reason for everything in Axl's GNR- that's what he wanted.2 guitarists is just fine, 3 (including the one that can't play the songs properly) often ends up a mess IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay410 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 (edited) Slash's tone on the UYI records were unreal. These days he chases the AFD sound, but really it was mostly the SCOM tone that was so amazing. UYI as a whole had An amazing tone.There's a Seymour Duncan official test video on YouTube with his signature Seymour Duncan alnico 2 pickups, and the guy gets the closest to Slash's UYI tone that I've ever heard. Edited March 28, 2014 by TeeJay410 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 (edited) Slash's tone sounds killer here Edited March 28, 2014 by Gibbo 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Glow Inc. Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Slash, easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoePerry954 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 I'm not trying to stir the old vs new pot but it is a fact that no guitarist post Slash has had any tone let alone good tone. BBF sounds like a broken fax machine, Richard u can hardly even hear in the mix. Most times I cant....and Ashba? Do I really need to go there? ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris 55 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Slash, Izzy, and Robin. Everyone else is pretty "meh", cept Ron's, his is god awful. Who the fuck over the age of 12 uses Line 6? That's something only snobby guitar players give a shit about. The rest of the world doesn't care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeeJay410 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Slash, Izzy, and Robin. Everyone else is pretty "meh", cept Ron's, his is god awful. Who the fuck over the age of 12 uses Line 6? That's something only snobby guitar players give a shit about. The rest of the world doesn't care.Well people who don't know about guitars will be able to make a blanket statement like "slash sounds better than Ron." The answer why is that Ron plays through a stupid line 6 and Slash plays through a Marshall. So people do give a shit, the amps they use contribute to their tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teroz Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Slash is superb in tone. No doubt, gotta love it.As far as nuGnR goes - Finck had a great tone, raw - it was a great backbone on the rhytyms. Bucket was and is superb in this field, loved it. But to me like I have said, everything in nuGnR has gone downhill: the guitarist, the drummer, interest on the tours etc. Sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russel Nash Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Slash AFDBucketFinck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron MikeyJ Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 (edited) Slash, Izzy, and Robin. Everyone else is pretty "meh", cept Ron's, his is god awful. Who the fuck over the age of 12 uses Line 6? I completely agree with the line 6 comment. I plugged into one of those things once, I thought "what is this garbage" I have had no desire to ever play out of anything of theirs ever again....But as far as tone goes1. Slash (legendary tone, enough said)2. Buckethead (He has a great tone on CD, by far the best of the NU guitarists)3. Izzy (the hollow body guitars through a marshal, very good and underrated tone)4. Ashba (based on his live tone, he does have the best of the three current and even better than Robin IMO)5. Gilby (Nothing ground breaking, but yet solid)6. Robin (I think some of you over value his live tone, it did not impress me, but his tone on CD is pretty good)7. Tie Bumblefoot and Fortus (Neither tones are bad, but both could spend a little more time thinking about this. I know for me, less is more, and these two seem to have too many effects going on most of the time I think they were offered contracts for endorsement deals, and couldn't turn down the cash, as a result their tones suffer IMO.)8. Tobias (Not enough information for me to give him a proper rating) Edited March 28, 2014 by Mike420 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumble's Bridge Pickup Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 For the record, Ron does not use a Line 6 live anymore. It's an ENGL Invader, if I'm right. He also uses a TC Electronic Nova System (simple but pretty great sounding multieffect) and a Dunlop Rack Wah. That has been his rig since 2009. It's basically simpler than Slash's is.However Slash takes the cake for best tone, followed by Robin IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetness Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Slash, Izzy, and Robin. Everyone else is pretty "meh", cept Ron's, his is god awful. Who the fuck over the age of 12 uses Line 6? That's something only snobby guitar players give a shit about. The rest of the world doesn't care.It doesn't take a guitar snob to know that Line 6 sucks dicks, it just takes having tried a few different amps. Unless you actually want your guitar to sound tinny, digital, and lifeless, as far as solid state heads go Line 6 is probably the worst brand choice you could make as a guitarist who cares at all about tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewbacca Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Buckethead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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