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The ultimate glam guitar tone?

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  • Started 4 years ago by GlennJB
  • Latest reply from Thiez

  1. GlennJB

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    I don't mean the quality of the playing or anything, but when you hear a big fat riff that slaps you in the face with the big fat GLAM sound!

    T.Rex - 20th Century Boy (mainly live, like the Musik Laden one)
    Another Pretty Face - Wild Child
    Suede - Metal Mickey, and particularly the heavy section of Pantomime Horse
    Mick Ronson - Angel #9
    Brett Smiley - Pre-columbian Love
    Bowie - heaps, like Rebel Rebel, Star, Hang Onto Yourself, Let's Spend The Nigt Together...
    NY Dolls - Jet Boy

    I'm sure there's zillions of others I'm forgetting..?

    Posted 4 years ago #  

  3. Dash

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    i cant say with much glam sound, but hands down,george lynch has the best guitar tone in the history of guitar.THE BEST.so i would say any riff from any Dokken or Lynch Mob song would be what i would write here

    Dan Dash
    Posted 1 year ago #  

  4. Stokes

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    personally i give the tone up to Ratt when they recorded with the soldanos they have the perfect guitar tone like on body talk and lay it down, i also agree with Dash george lynch's tone is one of my favorites also

    Posted 1 year ago #  

  5. Ms.CleoTyler

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    "i cant say with much glam sound, but hands down,george lynch has the best guitar tone in the history of guitar.THE BEST.so i would say any riff from any Dokken or Lynch Mob song would be what i would write here"
    - Dash

    Lynch's guitar playing is how i tell a song i've never heard before is dokken.
    like i had heard a dokken song i didnt know the other day, i dont think i could have told it was dokken without him.

    Posted 1 year ago #  

  6. Dash

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    Exactly.the signature sound.I think every great band has a signature sound.or at least should have a sound that's sets them apart from everything else.I actually believe that rachel bolans bass is a signature of skid row,u kno,when bach isn't singing,u can def tell a skid song from something else

    Dan Dash
    Posted 1 year ago #  

  7. Glamrockerfs

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    Warren Demartini on Body Talk
    George Lynch on Wicked Sensation
    For Power Ballads cant go wrong with the guitars on Every Rose Has Its Thorn
    Slash's tone for the more RNR type stuff, just has that snarl to it.

    Posted 1 year ago #  

  8. Stokes

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    anyone got any setting recommendations for a ratt and dokken tone?

    i know lynch has used randalls and has a signature randall out now and warren demartini had a very unique jcm 800 that marshall based there reissuse off of but i think i could get a similar tone on my jcm 2000 with my overdire pedal

    Posted 1 year ago #  

  9. squid

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    Lots of LA Guns stuff has that PERFECT tone.
    I agree on 20th century boy as well.

    Posted 1 year ago #  

  10. specgabe696

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    eddie van halen on MCMLXXXIV
    Jake e. lee on bark at the moon
    Mick mars on Dr. Feelgood
    Slash in Guns n roses
    Richie sambora on New Jersey
    great, great tones, if i could reproduce these tones it would be fuckin' good,
    altough it comes close when i am playin' my charvel and Pro co rat with my friend's JCM 800 2203, i read somewhere that this is the amp that mick mars and richie sambora uses live sometimes

    Posted 6 months ago #  

  11. dizzy

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    Slash and Izzy together on appetite
    And ofcourse Eddie Van Halen on the first Van Halen record

    Posted 5 months ago #  

  12. metalrulesall

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    anything buy mick mars,steve lynch on turn up the radio and loud and clear,angus young run away train,zack wydle no more tears,paul hackman wild in the streets,.....juat to name a few

    " into the flood again same old trip it was back then "
    Posted 5 months ago #  

  14. Thiez

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    "eddie van halen on MCMLXXXIV
    Jake e. lee on bark at the moon
    Mick mars on Dr. Feelgood
    Slash in Guns n roses
    Richie sambora on New Jersey
    great, great tones, if i could reproduce these tones it would be fuckin' good,
    altough it comes close when i am playin' my charvel and Pro co rat with my friend's JCM 800 2203, i read somewhere that this is the amp that mick mars and richie sambora uses live sometimes"
    - specgabe696

    The JCM800 2203 is what glam is build on haha. Boost it with a tubescreamer or DOD 250 or something, and then lots of chorus and flanger kinda effects ;)
    That was the live rig of almost every 80's band.
    Ratt used Laney AOR in the beginning but thats almost the same as JCM800.

    In studio there were a lot of bands using Soldano SLO, think of dimartini, george lynch, van halen, etc etc.

    Also the ADA MP1 was a well seen Rack preamp in the 80's. Guys like XYZ, maiden, paul gilbert, etc played it. Had one but didn't like it that much.
    At the moment i'm building my own ultimate marshall clone. JTM45, Plexi, JMP and JCM800 in one amp ;)

    Posted 3 months ago #  

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