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

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)

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

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

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!

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

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.

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?

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

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!

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

Fantastic video 🎉

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

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

Love that "Gilmour" bridge tone! Well done.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Yeess more tone videos 🔥🔥

fantastic tones

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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,

I love the KWS tone

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.

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

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

Amazing vid :)

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.

Strat clean sounds and neck pickup are wonders for me 😎

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.

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

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.

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.

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

You aRe HeLLA i love this video everything you play is Absolutely Stellar i love your choice of lead guitar style runs and chords all of the riffs and phrases it's all wAyy Thank You sO' much Music iS WiN \¡¡/

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

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.

Very Cool......Delivery

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

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

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

I agree the strat tone is my favorite too!

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

Hey, you finished a list!!

EXCELLENT.

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

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

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

Can I have a few of those strats? They sound great. (And you have to teach me how to play that great love you)

Awesome. Edge U2???

You're a great man

What was that first EJ assending riff at 6:18? That was amazing and I would love to know so I can learn

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

I love the Revv pedals. They're so damn good

Nice list. I'm kind of partial to the SRV tones.

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…

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.

That’s gonna be a BADASS Scar!

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.

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

Show your fender stuff more !!!! Fuckin love ya man! hope your noggin gets better . Cheers from Canada

What do you think about bugera amps

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.

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

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

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

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.

Jimi's wonderful tone at Berkeley is my favourite. Joe Bonamassa in his earlier days had great tone on a strat too. Mark Knopfler on Alchemy, Gilmour at PULSE, Jimi at Fillmore East and Woodstock, Gary Moore Emerals Aisles 1984, Hank Marvin Apache. To name a few. Favourite neck pickup sound Joe Bonamassa on the video (here on KZfaq) Miles of music playing the song The Storm (so good).

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!

Nick Johnson and Eric Gales have sick tones!!!

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

EJ Clean is my favorite on this list

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

"Get Lucky". Thanks Tyler.

7:44 this sounds so good

Great stuff. Strats and Teles are about the only two guitars that are instantly identifiable running clean straight into the amp (to my ears, anyway). LPs, SGs, Jags, JMs, etc. are all GREAT guitars, but I don’t think their tones are as immediately identifiable (to me) if I took a blindfolded tone test.

Was waiting for the burning room tone to show up

What is that IR loader you're using?

What is up with the strat that had like 1/4 inch scalloped frets?!

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).

Andy Timmons- Electric Gypsy comes to mind!

What song is he playing during the "throaty bliss" guitar tone?

Mark Knopfler’s strat sound should be here