Most unique 90’s guitar tone

[Moby Dick]

Dimebag Darrels tone was very unique.

 

[BarryJ]

Adam Jones probably belongs in this discussion as well - about as massive sounding as it gets

 

[cygnusx1]

Corgans tones on siamese dream and hell yes Marc Ford for bringing the guitar back to life as pure rock and roll

 

[moemoe6434]

Larry Lalonde and Corgan as previously noted.
Jerry Cantrell
Buzz Ozborne
EL Hefe
Peter Buck
Johnny Greenwood
Dave Navarro

Siamese Dreams and Sixteen Stone have some pretty great tones.

 

[Melodic Dreamer]

Don't know if its the most original, but they sounded different than other rock bands of their time.

 

[Thedude99]

Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine is certainly the most unique.

 

[The Opera Panther]

Fine. I’ll be that guy. I always dug (and continue to) Tim Mahoney’s (311) Mesa/Boss octave pedal tone from Grassroots in ‘95 or so. That was distinctive.

 

[prototype]

i always really liked Mike Ness' playing and tone. Its very basic: les paul -> boss sd1 -> bassman but it has a timeless quality that wasn't as common in the 90s where people got obsessed with more noisy and less vocal lead sounds. Kinda like how in the 80s Slash plugged a les paul into a marshall and made simple sounds cool again and have everyone selling their racks.

on the opposite side of that you gotta throw some props to Adam Jones. His rig was also fairly basic, but his sound was very unique with Tool. Lots of noise, lots of color. Not exactly vocal, but aggressive and also atmospheric and moody. Most guys aren't going to sound like that with essentially a very similar rig to what Slash and his clones were playing in the 80s.

 

[misterturtlehead]

I was about to type Marc Ribot on Rain Dogs. But Rain Dogs was released in 1985. But this was released in 1998, so Marc Ribot is the guy who I think had the most unique tone I can think of from the 1990s.

But Sir Richard Bishop had an interesting tone too on this record from 1993.

 

[AcceptableNorm]

Jagori Tanna from I Mother Earth got some of the tastiest unique tones I've ever heard. Dude is a genius and is an amazing player who did some great stuff back in the 90's

 

[tresspassor]

Jerry Cantrell

 

[ckfoxtrot]

Billy Corgan sure stood out from the others....you certainly could tell a Pumpkins tune from any other....and still can

Love the Pumpkins' fuzz tone.

My Wren and Cuff Eye See Pi (now known as Eye See '78) does a great job with it.

 

[Man_on_the_Silva_Mountain]

Eric Johnson .. Frusciante .. Gilbert .. Cantrell ... And Jeff Beck's new sound (Crazy Legs) . .Gary Moore's new sound "After Hours/Still Got ... Blues)

 

[jammwill]

I think Billy Corgan stands out as the guitar God of that era. His tone from that period is instantly recognizable. Don't think anyone has taken multitrack guitar laying to quite an extreme before or after either...

 

[potsticker]

James Mankey. this song will always be goosebump material

 

[Zatyricon]

I always loved Jim Martin's tone on FNMs The Real Thing and Angel Dust

 

[bdonnelly]

Chris Whitley comes immediately to mind...

 

[bdonnelly]

...and Jeff Buckley

 

[shane8]

Tom Morello definitely had an identifiable sound and style.

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+1

winner

 

[Drewboy]

The songs made the tone. Amirite