budgie: best guitar tones?

budgie 04.13.26	big butts
AlkemestRedux 04.13.26	I always liked Josh Homme's guitar tone on Songs for the Deaf. All like mids and bass for a nice flabby crunch that beefs up nicely with some overdrive or whatever when they get rowdy.
Futures 04.13.26	for thrash to me, ride the lightning is peak. just pops so hard.
budgie 04.13.26	iirc ride the lightning stood out cuz they layered a bunch of guitar tracks which prob wasnt the convention among 18 year old alcoholics in 1984. otherwise the gear was super generic les pauls into overdriven marshall (not a bad thing at all) and yeah its a nice chunky tone on the album
Zac124 04.13.26	In Flames - The Jester Race Immortal - At the Heart of Winter Metallica - Ride the Lightning These are the three that instantly comes to mind for me.
BigBlob 04.13.26	Filosofem
budgie 04.13.26	filosofem tone is great too yeah varg is like a beethovenian music genius https://youtu.be/uMArDdmmRcQ?t=201 3:20-3:40 is the best lil bit of music ever my god timestamped for her pleasure
FrozenFirebug 04.13.26	limp bizkit discography black sabbath ozzy discography that's it actually all the good ones have been taken, sorry music!!!!
Muzz79 04.13.26	Dr Feelgood comes to mind
budgie 04.13.26	one of my favorite science factoids is if you showed hawks a picture of a guitar and a picture of a drumset and asked him to point to the guitar there's a 50% chance he would get it wrong
cylinder 04.13.26	The first few that come to mind: Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights Women - Public Strain Autolux - Future Perfect Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up ‘til It Was Light
DominionMM1 04.14.26	i’ve always thought mastodon could dial up some killer tones. THE riff in the last baron comes to mind.
budgie 04.14.26	ya dude i linked elephant man up above that sound is awesome, i rmeember a riff in making of crack the skye i think hinds is playing a goldtop and the tone is super cool
budgie 04.14.26	god its fkn hard to listen to mastodon now
rockandmetaljunkie 04.14.26	Black Sabbath - first three albums
Illoomorpheme 04.14.26	Dismember - Live an Everflowing Stream
TrantaLocked 04.14.26	Asking Alexandria - Stand Up and Scream
DominionMM1 04.14.26	“ i rmeember a riff in making of crack the skye i think hinds is playing a goldtop and the tone is super cool“. i think you’re thinking of this mortal soil from the making of bm right around the 29:00 mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCxrVh5ATv8
RogueNine 04.14.26	Whatever Jus Oborn did in the early days.
DominionMM1 04.14.26	also have to mention josh homme’s kyuss tones, demon cleaner and gardenia in particular.
budgie 04.14.26	YES DUDE that's exactly it. so fucking awesome!! thank you! !!
budgie 04.14.26	sounds like a wah pedal got stuck halfway or something
el_newg 04.14.26	Slaughter in the Vatican
NudeTayne 04.14.26	lol I thought this was asking what other musicians here think the best guitar tone they've personally found was
NudeTayne 04.14.26	I will say the palm muting tone in And Justice is one of the reasons I ever bothered playing metal at all
Sharenge 04.14.26	Geordie Walker of Killing Joke was a good one
bighubbabuddha 04.14.26	big boobs jiggling everywere
NudeTayne 04.14.26	[2]
garas 04.14.26	Nice ones! Lately I was digging into the Electric Wizard discography, and the We Live album has a killer guitar tone, which I'd like to highlight.
NudeTayne 04.14.26	Nice ones! [2]
kkarron 04.14.26	Geordie Walker of Killing Joke was a good one [2]
Madbutcher3 04.14.26	Hmm ones that come to mind for me: Exodus - Atrocity Exhibition Exhibit A (very scratchy but very chunky, savage sound) Slipknot - All Hope is Gone (pleasingly saturated, pick attack feels very deep?) Decapitated - Carnival is Forever (very unique mid character, pick attack is huge, single note runs have really extreme harmonics) Dehumanized - Prophecies Foretold (ultra scooped but very thick tone, pinch harmonics jump out like crazy. aided by the very slappy kick drum I think) Hate Eternal - Conquering the Throne (very deep but quite tight, in my mind the target guitar tone for this type of music) Disentomb - Misery (extremely dark for quite a technical style of music, sorta slinks around like the batmobile) Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked (feels huge, probably again down to the great drum production as well but conveys a sense of grandeur that other Nile albums don't really have) Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed (tight enough for the music but very gainy, kind lends a "fleshy" sound) Anthrax - Spreading the Disease (pick attack is simply insane) Vader - XXV (another one with kind of a weird mid character, very tight but despite the screaming harmonics the bass response sounds great) Testament - The Formation of Damnation (pretty standard modern metal tone but not excessively clinical, founds very big and a little wooly, apparently the guitars had Dimarzio Super Distortions which may be why)
budgie 04.14.26	oh nice garas fuzzy tones rule, pike has an excellent sound on holy mountain thinking about it
Donchivo 04.14.26	Bolt Thrower - Mercenary (The most chunky, fat, multilayered Guitar sound in Death Metal, this one is so thick and delicious) and The Solo of Fermented Offal Discharge. That lofty sound is sooo perfect! The overall guitar sound of Onset is also nice n thick but lacks a bit of dynamics and range.
budgie 04.14.26	MERCENARYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
TheManMachine 04.14.26	wipers
thumbcrusher 04.14.26	Children of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh Also been listening to a bunch of Rammstein recently and their production generally is incredible
Donchivo 04.14.26	MERCENARYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY [2] but the best song to savour that aural guitar onslaught is 'Powder Burns', those notes just hanging there after being played and vibing in your head are so fucking awesome....
budgie 04.14.26	thje opener zeroed is my fav off merc fuck i love zeroed fuck fuick fuck
Donchivo 04.14.26	yeaaah zeroed is amazing. with just the opening riff you kinda know that you are in for an amzing treat with the whole album.
Jurtz 04.14.26	It's great to see the love that Mercenary is getting, I love that album so much
budgie 04.14.26	mercenary is so good its basically an honorary thrash metal record
MTObsidian 04.14.26	I think the guitar tones on pretty much any Defeated Sanity album are really tight. Their tone fits the genre/music perfectly.
Jmal00 04.14.26	No Gypsy Ways mention yet? For shame folks. Night Stalker alone makes that a top tier tone album
AlexKzillion 04.14.26	lots of my favs mentioned already but strictly metal: death - human sabbath - vol4 pantera - trendkill (yes lmao) down - nola
AlexKzillion 04.14.26	oh and also think catch 33 is prob the best djent tone still in terms of recent stuff prob thou - umbilical
jrlikestodance 04.14.26	Crowbar
Futures 04.14.26	bloodbath- resurrection through carnage buzzsaw m/
Brabiz 04.14.26	Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky. The perfect BM tone imo. Also South of Heaven. The production on that album in general is perfect
Jmal00 04.14.26	I replicate Darkthrone production when I turn on my electric razor.
Thibs 04.14.26	high on fire
SAPoodle 04.15.26	Dismember - Live an Everflowing Stream [2]
teamster 04.24.26	The master of the guitar tone is Tommy Victor.
Rowhaus 04.24.26	Suffering Hour
bighubbabuddha 04.24.26	Jcm 800 with a boss SD-1 with the level cranked and the gain at 9 o clock always hits the spot with a Gibson SG with humbuckers *farts
budgie 04.24.26	u have a jcm 800?
mryrtmrnfoxxxy 04.24.26	Cows had great guitar and bass tone
Scoot 04.24.26	always loved the tone on darkest hour - deliver us
Koris 04.24.26	A few that come to mind: Gojira - From Mars to Sirius (still some of the nastiest shit ever) Helmet - first three albums (if concrete slabs were a guitar tone) Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (like wading through a thick, murky sludge) Meshuggah - Nothing (both versions, but if you twisted my arm and made me choose, I guess Blue) Tesla - Into the Now (a more underrated pick. Those guitars have some fucking CRUNCH to 'em) Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind (for just how visceral it sounds. And how huge it sounds during the slow sections)
bighubbabuddha 04.24.26	I have a line 6 helix that has that model yeah, I prefer modellers to amps
ShadowRemains 04.24.26	rippikoulu - musta seremonia
budgie 04.24.26	fair but nothin beats hearin your tubes come live
EoinCofa 04.24.26	Best straight-up rock tone is Mick Mars on Girls and Feelgood albums. And I’m not even a fan of Motley or Mick for that matter. But holy crap the tone sounds so good through headphones. Randy Rhodes has the worst tone ever, so thin. But I like him as a player.
kkarron 04.25.26	> fair but nothin beats hearin your tubes come live Yah this might be a "boomer" opinion or whatever, but a jcm800 moving serious air just can't be beat. Yes, your sound guy will hate you, yes, it's completely unnecessary for most venues, but fuck does it sound great in a way modellers can't replicate. But then again, I'm a weirdo and I use the low gain channel on my (reissue 2203) 800 with a distortion pedal in front. The 800 kinds excels at giving pedals life even more than its legendary high gain input.
budgie 04.25.26	tubebro! my 800 was a 1986 run with an added preamp stage (so four preamp tubes), i ran it w just one od pedal live, zvex hardon. absolutely the best roar in metal nothing feels better !!!!!!!!!!
kkarron 04.25.26	that sounds crazy loud man, love it!
s0nicx 04.26.26	The tone Alice in Chains had on Dirt really stands out to me.
combustion07 04.26.26	Electric Wizard- Dopethrone Ripping Corpse- Dreaming With the Dead Morgue- Eroded Thoughts Convulse- World Without God Those are the ones that pop up for me immediately. Been jamming Prison Affair too they’ve got a wild ass sound
WatchItExplode 04.26.26	Sweeten up a lightly overdriven 800 with boost and delay, you pretty much have the definitive heavy tone. I'm mostly a pedal platform guy these days and find a klon boosted by a screamer type (nobels odr mini 2) is a really fat satisfying tone There's way too many to mention but growing up I was always trying to get close to the countdown to Extinction and youthanasia tones
WatchItExplode 04.26.26	Also, you can't beat hatebreed for massive Marshall chug
foxblood 04.26.26	Imo diezel heads have the best tone out there
zakalwe 04.26.26	In Utero
budgie 04.26.26	@watch youthanasia tone is totally killer as hell
bighubbabuddha 04.26.26	big butts
Tgreenz455 04.26.26	Fairweather Friends by QOTSA has the most satisfying guitar tone I think I’ve ever heard