Your very *favourite* rhythm guitar sound?

[J.DavisNJ]

I used to have a sweet Mark III, non-simulclass head. Man, what a sweet amp. Rackmount, 6L6, I regret selling it.

On topic: It's really hard to pick one...I like to many different styles of music. For metal, I'd say Opeth has some of my favorite tone.

-Joe

 

[whitedamp]

Godsmack - Make Me Believe
Rammstein - Morgenstern
Rob Zombie - Reload (from the Matrix Reloaded soundtrack)

 

[Force666]

In no particular order....

Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
In Flames - Clayman
The Crown - Possessed 13

 

[beyond dead]

metal:
carnal forge: testify for my victims
scar symmetry: pitch black progress
the haunted: revolver

also, bloodbath: resurrection through carnage is def. a runner up!

and who could forget: inflames: clayman, parkway drive: horizons, nonpoint has a bitchin guitar sound! dt: accelerated evolution. ziltoid the omniscient ...

 

[Youpimatin]

Edge of Sanity : Purgatory Afterglow
At the Gates : Slaughter of the Soul
Machine Head : Burn my Eyes

 

[_Brutalism_]

Finally....

Exodus - Fabulous Disaster

...boner.

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

In Flames - Clayman. Works perfectly on that exact album, but I don't think the exact same tone would fit to most modern metal.
KSE - The End of Heartache. For a general (some might say boring), sure-bet rhythm tone this one is one of my favourites. Thick and smooth but still punchy.
Chimaira - Resurrection. Probably my most favourite rhythm guitar tone ever. So clear and aggressive without sounding too raw.

 

[grywolf627]

...Chimaira - Resurrection. Probably my most favourite rhythm guitar tone ever. So clear and aggressive without sounding too raw.

I was waiting for you to chime in here with this one. Your own guitar sound is heavily based on this. (and it's a great tone I might add!)

 

[K Odell]

KSE-AOJB or EOH

Meshuggah-Destroy Erase Improve

Soilwork-Stabbing The Drama

Chimaira-The Impossibility Of Reason

and last but not least.....
Iced Earth-Horror Show

 

[Metaltastic]

I'm realizing my favorite tones are more on the crunchy side of things, with less of the typical Peavey-esque saturation, so here are some of my favorite examples:

Opeth - Ghost Reveries (you know me all too well Kryspies )
Decapitated - The Negation (what a fucking BARK to that tone, jesus)
Behemoth - The Apostasy (bar none the biggest, ballsiest tone on planet Earth, and THE definitive Recto cab sound as far as I'm concerned, sorry TGE)

 

[Metaltastic]

Soilwork-Stabbing The Drama

You can't be serious... :zombie: I admit it pretty much works for the album, but still...

 

[ProjectHamsterdam]

Well, here goes:

Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
Obituary - Cause of Death
Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick (this one's pretty weird with all the flanging stuff going on, and it's a Marshall JCM 900 for fuck's sake (you know, all those diodes pissing off the tube purists) but to me it sits up there with the best of them)

 

[korpse pop]

Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick (this one's pretty weird with all the flanging stuff going on, and it's a Marshall JCM 900 for fuck's sake (you know, all those diodes pissing off the tube purists) but to me it sits up there with the best of them)

I don't like the mix that much, but guitars really sound good and big. I love Marshalls, I just wish the modern bands would use good old Marshalls on their albums instead of always the Engl/5150/Mesa-stuff

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

I was waiting for you to chime in here with this one. Your own guitar sound is heavily based on this. (and it's a great tone I might add!)

Haha, thanks bro! I won't even try to deny the fact that I'm trying to blatantly rip off the tone

 

[K Odell]

You can't be serious... :zombie: I admit it pretty much works for the album, but still...

yeah man I love it. I dont know why but I just do haha.

 

[Fifth_Horseman]

I've already asked myself that question years ago when searching for reference sounds for mixing my band's last album.

On close listen I noticed that there's actually very few tones that I REALLY like... though there are quite alot of tones where I think they "work for that style" or are "done well", there's only very few where there's nothing I would change, nothing to complain about, where I love every note thrown at me from the speakers.

So now I compared my list from back then with the new stuff I got and liked since then... to my surprise the list still hasn't changed.

Here's the top 3:
Dies Irae - Sculpture of Stone
Decapitated - The Fury
Behemoth - Demigod (sounds more clear and "in your face" to me than The Apostasy)

So what do I learn from this? I have to record my next album in POLAND!rock:

 

[Metaltastic]

I'm just so glad no one has posted anything by Nile on here, I really would die a little inside

 

[Fifth_Horseman]

I'm just so glad no one has posted anything by Nile on here, I really would die a little inside

Haha, that was one of the bands which didn't even make it into my contest...

I also was reminded now that my favourite music / my favourite records don't contain my favourite tones.

 

[CatharsisStudios]

American me - heat
Arch enemy - anthems of rebellion
Night Rage - A new disease is born

 

[Chryst Krispies]

Ohh, and my last two.

Story of the Year- The black swan
Nile- Annihilation of the Wicked.... TAKE THAT SANDERS HATERS! LOLZ JK
Decapitated- Organic H