As Fred mentioned pinning down the exact type of guitar used could be virtually impossible from listening to the recording.

But a guideline for non guitarists trying to identify guitar tones.

1) Crystalline clean tones and thinner distorted sounds are often a Fender Stratocaster or similar single pole pickup equipped guitar. Out of phase ie. quacky clean sounds are quite likely strat type guitars which have the 5 way pickup selector.

2) Chunkier & heavier clean and distorted sounds fall into the Gibson or similar humbucker ( dual coil pickups ) equipped guitars. Extreme heavy metal lead sounds are also in this category.

If you are looking for a particular sound sample set your choice will probably fall into the above 2 categories.


[This message has been edited by Nigel (edited 02-09-2003).]