Reference albums for Guitar Tone

[Ashgarth]

Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh
Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis

 

[CatharsisStudios]

Bury your dead - beauty and the breakdown
American Me - Heat
New TBDM
Emmure - Good bye to the gallows
Bring me the horizon - suicide season

 

[Damian B]

I love it for referencing drum mixes

It will make you happier about your mix no matter how bad it is!

 

[Cacoph0ny]

In Flames - Clayman
The Absence - Riders of the Plague
Lamb of God - Wrath/As the Palaces Burn
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
The Haunted - rEVOLVEr
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Arch Enemy - Doomsday
Parkway Drive - Horizons

Good call on The Absence. That tone is sick.

 

[mondocane]

burn my eyes

+1. definitely. 5150 block letters at its best for me. Colin R. helped I guess.

talking of mr. Sneap friends, STUCK MOJO "Pigwalk", ripping JCM 800 tone.
[courtesy of D. Bergstrand, sorry]

A.

 

[Felix Neumann]

Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibition

 

[Sweetnothing]

I have to add the new alice in chains album to the list, omg it sounds huge!

 

[ChrisTanakaCanwell]

Strapping Young Lad - Chicken Feather album

 

[Harry Hughes]

SunnO))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
Kayo Dot - Choirs Of The Eye

D:

I haven't heard that Sunno))) album yet, but fuck me Choirs does have good tone.
When I listen to A Pitcher Of Summer, when that distorted guitar comes in I just cream myself, it's such a lovely, beefy tone.

 

[Harry Hughes]

Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
Nevermore - Dead Heart In a Dead World
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Killswitch Engage - End of Heartache
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Isis - Oceanic
Megadeth - Endgame
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Paramore - Riot!
Soilwork - Stabbing the Drama
Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos
Opeth - Watershed
Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings

I actually don't even like that particular DT album (although I am a fan of the band)
But the tone is great, so I keep that album there just for a reference.

 

[BrettT]

I have to add the new alice in chains album to the list, omg it sounds huge!

Definitely. Love the guitar tone on this album. It's delicious.

 

[iHate]

Chevelle - This type of thinking... *The Clincher
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
Breaking Benjamin - Phobia
Gojira - Way of all flesh

 

[lolzgreg]

A lot of people have been one-upping Gojira and Breaking Benjamin. I'm glad! They're both stellar tone wise.

 

[Lasse Lammert]

Devildriver-tlkw
Nevermore-dhiadw/tge
Tool-10kd
chimaira-Ressurection
Arch Enemy-dm

 

[phatfil]

it's an older example of Andy's work, but Declaration of a Headhunter by Stock Mojo has INCREDIBLE guitar tone.

 

[elmoe]

Decaptitated - The negation / Organic hallucinosis
Gojira - The way of all flesh
The Haunted - One kill wonder
Meshuggah - I
Nightrage - Sweet vengeance
Ion Dissonance - Minus the herd
Bring me the horizon - Suicide season (mighty guitar tone)

 

[Jeds7800]

Most of mine have been said already, but I've got to add Ire Works and Miss Machine by The Dillinger Escape Plan.

 

[GarethSE]

Most of mine have been said already, but I've got to add Ire Works and Miss Machine by The Dillinger Escape Plan.

calculating infinite is imo the epitomy of DEP guitar tone
haha
so dirty

another one to add
Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle

Actually, one more
Sikth - Death Of A Dead Day

 

[DaWolf]

Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious

My new reference not only for guitars

 

[Toni S.]

Actually, one more
Sikth - Death Of A Dead Day

+11111111111

The guitar tone one their first album is also very nice, kinda dry and very tight. The audio equivalent of an anus.