people dont give frusciante enough credit as a guitarist his tones are unmatched and unreplicated

The fact that Mark Knopfler’s tone isn’t on here is criminal. When I think of a strat I immediately either think of SRV or Mark Knopfler

The Edge’s tone on “Where the Streets Have No Name” absolutely must be given a nod at least!

Other great Strat players/tones I always think of - Billy Corgan (Cherub Rock/I Am One fuzz, Today/1979 clean) - George Harrison (Nowhere Man solo/My Sweet Lord slide) - Eric Clapton (Wonderful Tonight solo) - Billie Joe Armstrong (Basket Case (also yes I know it’s a Strat copy he uses but it still sounds great)) - Tom DeLonge (Dammit/What’s My Age Again? clean/First Date) - Billy Gibbons (La Grange clean) - Ritchie Blackmore (Highway Star/Burn) - Dave Murray (Number of the Beast/The Trooper) - The Edge (Where the Streets Have No Name delay) - Mark Knopfler (Sultans of Swing riff/solo) - Robin Trower (Bridge of Sighs Uni-Vibe) - Ed King (Sweet Home Alabama riff)

Mark knopfler for me, the tone he dialed in on the strat for songs like money for nothing and sultans of swing was beautiful, also telegraph road is a masterpiece!

Robin Trower, Jeff beck, blackmore, Kotzen all have killer tone definitely worth the mention

Sultans of Swing Live from Alchemy is the greatest strat tone I’ve heard in my life. Maybe my favorite guitar tone ever. There’s just something about those crystal cleans, the ticks from the finger picking, the very slight overdrive and the larger than life auditorium echo/reverb that just can’t be matched. But all great picks and great video!

Nice tones and playing! Clapton Journeyman-era or Layla, Robert Cray and Mark Knopfler are some of my other favourites!

I got to hear Eric Johnson live at the Cleveland house of blues. A phone or camera recording doesn’t do justice for how amazing his dirty and clean tone sounds. It is so beefy and warm on the low end while still retaining the bright and chimey sound strats are known for. That applies for both of his tones.

Taking a subject like this on is bound to leave out someone’s favorite player, an iconic tone or an important performance. One of my favorite Strat tones is “Daydream” by Robin Trower. I’ve been a fan of his playing for decades and I was fortunate enough to see him live in 1985. Of course, you can’t go wrong with anyone else you’ve mentioned here, all are legendary examples. Other players such as Jeff Beck, Ritchie Blackmore, Rory Gallagher, Mark Knopfler and others created singular, iconic tones too, perhaps a part two is in order?

Stevie Ray Vaughan made a Strat sound better than anybody else. Eric Johnson had a great tone as well.

My favorite tone is the tone Mark Knopfler used on Sultans of Swing. Another interesting tone was by Pete Townshend: the headstock of a Strat being rammed thru the feeding back speaker.

Omg I was trying to find the perfect pedal to get to replicates david gilmours sound thank u so much

I’d love to see more guitars (Les Paul, Tele, etc) have videos like this about them!

Robin Trower on Bridge of Sighs is the greatest guitar tone I have ever heard period !!!

Rory Gallagher (VOX AC30 and a rangemaster treble booster) powerful, raw and dynamic tone

Enjoyed everything you've done here! This takes me back to Hendrix' In The West album. When he kicks in the Wa peddle and blows out that screaming treble lead in Johnny Be Good. One of my all time favorites throughout the years.

Richie blackmores strat sound is iconic especially on live albums like made in japan

My 5 favorite Strat tones are as listed: Pickup switch position #1 Pickup switch position #2 Pickup switch position #3 Pickup switch position #4 Pickup switch position #5

One of my favorite Strat tones was Hughie Thomasson of the Outlaws. Snarly with a unique twangyness (all technical terms) that I've not quite heard from any other player. I believe the extra twang came from him picking closer to the bridge. "There Goes Another Love Song" and "Green Grass and High Tides" are great examples.

I've had that hendrix tone in my head for two years now, and I couldn't remeber where I had heard a certain part of it. You just played it. THANK YOU!

Everybody likes different guitarists and styles. I think Ritchie Blackmore will always be the biggest influence on my guitar tastes through a Strat. Then it's gotta be David Gilmour and Mark Knopfler. There's so many greats. R.I.P. Jeff Beck. A series of videos like this gives you a chance to share some of your favorites. Could actually do dozens of them, depending on the brand or specific models of guitars. Lots of great content there for sure.

The "Hendrix clean tone" is best achieved, in my "experience", by using a Fuzz Face type pedal (I use a Fulltone '69, among others) with a strat and ROLLING THE GUITAR VOLUME WAY DOWN. As the fuzz "cleans up" it leaves that slight hair and beautiful glassy clarity. It's the "Little Wing" sound and it was a revelation to me when I finally discovered it. It is one of my favorite clean tones to use, since. Then roll volume up for more gain for solos, and all the way up for fuzz tone

Phillip Sayce's live performance of "Once" at the 2022 Dallas International Guitar Festival was absolutely mind blowing. Talk about into the 'Strat'osphere!

Gilmour's is my favorite, but you could do a whole video like this on just his different tones.

I love the KWS tone

Awesome tones🎧😮‍💨🔥 You have more pedals than the tour de france 🙌👌

Hope you're doing good Tyler sorry about the beer attack, maybe it'll leave a cool scar

I just absolutely love taking strats and tales and just cranking the distortion to the max and it sounds 🔥🔥🔥

I have to say, watching your hands almost effortlessly operate the tremolo bar and the pickup selector while playing those Hendrix solos is something that not only boggles my mind, but also makes me want to understand more about why you are doing it. Obviously it's a tone thing, but to dig deeper, it makes me wonder why you're doing it.

Ritchie Blackmore should've been on the list as one of the greatest guitarists of all time, one of the most inspiring guitarists and has many great guitar riffs

Great Job Man.........I was very impressed with the Fruciante's berserker Mode........didn't know he could do that!!!!......I got to check that out. I however want to point out that In my Humble opinion the Voodoo Tone has to come from real speakers Moving Air, again just my opinion, I got a Marshall Vintage Modern and I swear that to my ears to you have to get those Power Tubes going, those speakers Shaking.......your attack has to be agressive. I can't get that on the console. Again just my two cents. Great Video again.

Holy crap dude! I've walked around Nashville plenty and I could totally see the beer bottle thing happening.

Fantastic video 🎉

Top 3 for me: 1) Keith Scott - Summer of '69 2) Neil Schon - Lights 3) Lincoln Brewster...literally everything Strat related

All the Hendrix tones were my favs. He was a wizard with the Strat!

Love that "Gilmour" bridge tone! Well done.

One tone that I would say is a really cool Strat tone and underrated is the tone on Life in the Fast Lane by the eagles. That delay and just the good ol fashioned drive on that is just awesome

All great tones! Hope you’re feeling better dude. 🤙

My favorite electric guitar intro and one of my favorite guitar tones ever is the guitar tone for Lights by Journey. Strat neck pickup into a compressor and echoplex into a cranked marshall with greenbacks. It is so good.

Hank Marvin, George Harrison (Nowhere man solo), Hendrix (Little wing), Blackmore (Made in Japan), Richard Thompson, Mark Knopfler, Gilmour (different tones in Shine on you crazy diamond).

The drawback to all those great Strat tones is the ever present and ever AWESOME hum....

Strat clean sounds and neck pickup are wonders for me 😎

Hank Marvin (from the Shadows) has the best strat tone, and nothing could ever change my mind!!!

Love the voodoo tones Tyler, and the Hendrix clean, but they're all great in some way. 👍❤️

Idk if it’s been said but the Strat tone in Blue on Black by Kenny Wayne Shepherd was always one of my favorite Strat tones.

Hendrix defined the strat tone, Billy Corgan and Frusciante had an awesome strat tone too

Thank you for covering the SRV Riviera Paradise thing. He did that glassy bell tone better than most. Left out anything by Dire Straits…the 4 position strat tone is synonymous with their music.

Honestly, I love all these tones for all their own reasons. So many tones for so many different styles, parts, nuances.. yeah.

3:05 *Robert California liked that*

I bought a Fender mim Jimi Hendrix stratocaster just to get that fantastic tone he had. The guitar produces the tone pretty damn well not to mention the amazing playability.

Mark Knopfler’s strat sound should be here

For me the 10 best Stratocaster Tones would be 1. The Edge - Where the Streets have no Name 2. Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child 3. Mark Knopfler - Sultans Of Swing 4. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Lenny 5. David Gilmour - Time 6. Richie Blackmore - Lazy 7. The Edge - The Fly 8. John Frusciante - Dani California 9. Eric Clapton - Layla 10. John Mayer - Slow Dancing in a Burning Room

Henry Garza (Los Lonely Boys) has some great strat tones, severely underrated

I have my first strat delivering soon!!! Thanks for uploading this video I'm really excited to mess with these tones:D

nothing beats yngwie’s tone on Marching out

SOOO disappointed that you didn’t include Billy Corgan’s sonic wall of sound from the early Smashing Pumpkins days (Siamese Dream / Melancholy era). Not only super fun to play around with, but also super unique. You knew what band it was as soon as you heard the guitar…

Hey, you finished a list!!

Stevie’s strat sound was so perfect. I don’t know how to describe it. But it’s great

I think the John Mayer tone should have been slow dancing in a burning room. I know it’s really really heavily played, but it’s such a good tone

My favourite strat tone is Frusciante's from the Under the Bridge intro. It's absolutely glorious.

What about slow dancing in a burning room??? Best clean strat tone imo

Hendrixs tones on cry of love are some of my favorites. From the Storm and Angel have some of the best tones ive ever heard. Freedom is great too. Love everything else he made but cry of love is the besy

That David Gilmour "Comfortably Numb" solo sounded a little off to me. Missing some swirl, like a flanger or low speed leslie speaker. Really liked how you saved the best (Jimi Hendrix) for last.

I enjoyed this. Nice concept, taking inspiration but doing your own thing with it.

how about Corey Wong

Billy Corgan on Smashing Pumpkins' Gish/Siamese Dream.

Rory Gallagher's Strat tone, hard to beat.

LOVEEEE the Frusciante strat tone. the edge of breakup on his vintage Marshall amps are so perfect to my ears for that dirty clean tone. then adding a DS-2 and a fuzz like Bif Muff for the Live at Slane Castle is my ultimate tone goal. I also like the John Mayer clean tones, but not as much as Fru. The Jimi clean is awesome too, but for me playing, i like a little cleaner/less OD. Obvi that Jimi fuzz sound is just iconicccc.

Yeah I just love the Bridge God sound and I think it is close to some other great rock tones without major adjustments. The EJ clean is the best clean ever.

7:44 this sounds so good

Billy Corgan on Gish and Siamese Dream.

Great list; thanks... I'd add Robert Cray (Right Next Door).

For me, it has to be Jeff Beck's Strat sound. One note, and you just knew!

Bold as love has been my favorite guitar tone since I was a kid, before I ever even thought of picking up a guitar

Daaaaaaaamn!.....that SRV tone was puuuuurfect!

Andy Timmons- Electric Gypsy comes to mind!

SRV, Lenny. Eric Johnson, Trademark. John Mayer, Slow Dancing in a Burning Room. David Gilmour, Comfortably Numb (ABSOLUTELY). John Frusciante, Under the Bridge.

Black heaven the song by earthless is definitely my favorite. It’s so fucking gnarly. Isaiah is the man

I always felt that Roland Orzabal's strat tone was very underrated. The usual suspects are so for good reason.

Chris Rea got some awesome tones with his Strat e.g. Stainsby Girls, It’s All Gone, and many more.

The first Godsmack album was recorded entirely on a Strat

Great video! I have a tele, but all my favorite players are or were on strats. I plan on getting one with I hit the one year mark on guitar,

fantastic tones

"Get Lucky". Thanks Tyler.

We Want Moore - Live album by Gary Moore from around 1984 . Heard that and was hooked on Strats ever since. (Although like the Tele quite a bit too)

Clapton on the Layla album, Journeyman era, and I really think he has had many other great Strat tones as well. Some have effects and some are straight into an amp. Live shows from 1986-87 had tones I really think are cool.

Nobody in the world has a better strat tone than Stevie Ray Vaughn. It isn't even close.

Jimmie Vaughan on the Fabulous Thunderbirds records, Ronnie Earl T-bone boogie live, and Buddy Guy!

Lowell George for me! Although not a true Strat tone, seeing as he liked to have Tele bridge pickups, in place of the stock bridge pups. But to me that's some of the best tone to be put to tape.

The Hendrix tones were pretty close but to my ear the rest of the tones were a bit brighter. The SRV tone definitely felt brighter though it was well in the vein of Stevie’s tone.

I'm so glad he mentioned Manhattan , that song is truly a masterpiece but underappreciated sadly

Several good mentions here, indeed! I'd like to add Terje Rypdal to the list. Mesmerizing tone - and feel...

Before having watched the video yet, here are some of my picks for some of the best or most iconic strat tones: SRV (duh) Buddy Guy's tone with his iconic polka dot strat Eric Johnson tone Cliffs of Dover for example The clean tone on Smashing Pumpkins' Tonight Tonight🎉 The tones Ritchie Blackmore achieved with Deep Purple, like on Strange Kind of Woman Jimi Hendrix clean tone like on Wind Cries Mary or Sandcastles Made of Sand Hank Marvin clean tones with the Shadows John Fruscisnte's RHCP strat tones

Every tone there is a career on it you cannot beat a sweet curvy strat

You might have a badass scar now tbh. You become more of a rockstar everyday I swear

One of my favorite modern day strat players is Brian Murray of Dogs in a Pile! If you haven’t checked dogs out you’re missing out!

Ruban Nelson has got to have my favorite tone, especially in the song "American Guilt."

Was waiting for the burning room tone to show up

Nick Johnson and Eric Gales have sick tones!!!