Your favorite page tone?

two words: Heart Breaker.
runner up: Won Ton Song
I also love the strat in Royal Orleans

 

Another nod for the riff and verse in Bring It On Home. I remember when I first heard that song about 5 years ago. That slow bluesy opening and then that riff comes out of nowhere. Amazing. My other fav is the solo in Good Times, Bad Times. Always trying to get that for myself. Gotta mess around with my Leslie some to really nail it tho.

 

I like it all. Just different levels of good/great.

 

Even stuff like that...a certain quirkiness to it. Seems everything he did was distinctive.


I really like his live tones from the early 70s. Studio solo tones like on Stairway and Achillies.

How about the steel tone on "That's The Way"?

Oh and "In The Light"......."Ten Years Gone"!!!

 

I love the solo in Heartbreaker. It took me years though to figure out how he achieved it. With his Echoplex. I hear that same tone with many Alman Bro songs as well as Felders guitar work on Allready Gone. I remember going into Guitar Center often and asking the salepeople(DUMB!) how to get that tone and they would allways tell me to turn this knob and turn that knob on a Marshall. Geeesh!!!! It wasnt until a few years ago I was watching gary Moore at Montreaux when I noticed he was using a T Rex Replica and I then put 2 and 2 together. LOL!

Ok, not to stray off the original question. My all time fav is anything on TSRTS. Black Dog, Since I been Loving You. No Quarter! I cant really name my fav. The Ocean like Mahler said, Custard Pie is another fav.

Mahler, is it possible Page used the Blue Box on Black Dog? It kinda resembles Fool in the Rain.

Ok.... I think I figured it out! My fav is probably Achilles Last Stand.

 

HTWWW In my Time Of Dying and Trampled Under Foot!

 

The only thing I can think of is a Octave pedal of some kind.

 

Achilles last stand. Wonton song. And all of his pedal steel stuff.

 

My favourite Jimmy Page tones are his Yardbirds era fuzz tones on the following songs...

Little Games, Smile On Me, Think About It, Avron Knows

I can get close enough to those kinda tones with my with my Danelectro DC-59 reissue, custom D*A*M MKII in to my 1966 Vox 715.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvyMLYWajnw

The MKI Marshall Supa Fuzz replica I had a shot of got those tones as well, maybe even more so than the MKII...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkyrtiv_Qxc

 

The Some Remains The Same from the live album of the same name. Also Celebration Day from the same album. I love that trebly, juicy sound with all of the harmonics and overtones. And of course pretty much everything on Zep 2

 

That slide tone from "You Shook Me."

 

when the levee breaks: the sort of bridge slide solo part where he's got the thing screaming bloody murder

 

Since I've Been Loving You.

 

Mahler, Black Dog was a compressor that he overdrived into distortion and then straight into the board. I used to know the name of the compressor, but I can't remember at the moment. He did the same thing for the studio version of No Quarter.

My favorite live Page tone is from Royal Albert Hall with the JPP Hiwatt and anything from 71-73. I love most all of his studio tones though. One of the greatest producers of all time!