1970s Guitar Tones

161 famous guitar tones recorded in the 1970s, each with community-researched amp settings you can dial in on your own rig.

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Most-covered 1970s artists: Pink Floyd (16) · Black Sabbath (10) · Led Zeppelin (9) · Lynyrd Skynyrd (6) · Aerosmith (5) · Van Halen (4) · The Allman Brothers Band (4) · Eric Clapton (4) · Deep Purple (4) · David Bowie (4) · Bob Marley (4) · Eagles (3)

Typical 1970s starting point: gain 4.5 · bass 5.5 · mid 6.5 · treble 6.5 · presence 5.5 (out of 10)

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Hotel California — Eagles Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love — Van Halen Comfortably Numb — Pink Floyd Layla — Derek & The Dominos Paranoid — Black Sabbath Sultans of Swing — Dire Straits Time — Pink Floyd Bohemian Rhapsody — Queen Breathe (In the Air) — Pink Floyd Free Bird — Lynyrd Skynyrd Echoes — Pink Floyd Iron Man — Black Sabbath Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2 — Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb — Pink Floyd Hey You — Pink Floyd Parisienne Walkways — Gary Moore Stairway to Heaven — Led Zeppelin Tuesday's Gone — Lynyrd Skynyrd Wish You Were Here — Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother — Pink Floyd Beast of Burden — The Rolling Stones Black Sabbath — Black Sabbath Comfortably Numb — Pink Floyd Cosmik Debris — Frank Zappa Crazy On You — Heart Dogs — Pink Floyd Eruption — Van Halen Get Down Tonight — KC and the Sunshine Band Heartbreaker — Led Zeppelin Jessica — The Allman Brothers Band Kashmir — Led Zeppelin Knockin' On Heaven's Door — Bob Dylan Layla — Eric Clapton Let It Be — The Beatles Money — Pink Floyd Planet Caravan — Black Sabbath Portrait of Tracy — Jaco Pastorius Rat Salad — Black Sabbath Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 1-5 — Pink Floyd Smoke on the Water (2024 Remaster) — Deep Purple Till It Shines — Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad? — Prince A Horse with No Name — America Achilles Last Stand (Remaster) — Led Zeppelin Aint No Sunshine — Bill Withers All Right Now — Free American Girl — Tom Petty Aqualung — Jethro Tull Baba O Riley — The Who Barracuda — Heart Barracuda — Heart Black Dog — Led Zeppelin Blitzkrieg Bop — Ramones Brass in Pocket — The Pretenders Breezin — George Benson Brick House — Commodores Bright Size Life — Pat Metheny Brown Sugar — The Rolling Stones Carry On Wayward Son — Kansas Carry On Wayward Son — Kansas Cause Weve Ended as Lovers — Jeff Beck Cemalim — Erkin Koray Children of the Grave — Black Sabbath Cocaine — Eric Clapton Cocaine — Eric Clapton Dağlar Dağlar — Barış Manço Dağlar Dağlar — Barış Manço Dream On — Aerosmith Dream On — Aerosmith Dust in the Wind — Kansas Europa — Santana Fairies Wear Boots — Black Sabbath Feel Like Makin Love — Bad Company Firth of Fifth — Genesis Flick of the Wrist (Live at the Rainbow, London / November 1974) — Queen Fly By Night — Rush Free Bird — Lynyrd Skynyrd Give Up the Funk — Parliament Go Your Own Way — Fleetwood Mac Going Down — Freddie King Good Times — Chic Green Grass and High Tides — The Outlaws Heroes — David Bowie Hey You — Pink Floyd Highway Star — Deep Purple Highway Star — Deep Purple Hold the Line — Toto Hopelessly Devoted to You — Olivia Newton-John I Wish — Stevie Wonder Immigrant Song — Led Zeppelin Is This Love — Bob Marley Jolene — Dolly Parton Just What I Needed — The Cars Kid Charlemagne — Steely Dan La Grange — ZZ Top La Villa Strangiato — Rush Landslide — Fleetwood Mac Layla — Derek and the Dominos Le Freak — Chic Legalize It — Peter Tosh Life in the Fast Lane — Eagles Machine Gun — Jimi Hendrix Mediterranean Sundance — Al Di Meola Message in a Bottle — The Police Money — Pink Floyd More Than a Feeling — Boston More Than a Feeling — Boston My Sharona — The Knack N.I.B. — Black Sabbath Namus Belası — Cem Karaca No Woman No Cry — Bob Marley One Love — Bob Marley Oye Como Va — Santana Peace of Mind — Boston Play That Funky Music — Wild Cherry Psycho Killer — Talking Heads Ramblin' Man — The Allman Brothers Band Rebel Rebel — David Bowie Reelin in the Years — Steely Dan Riverboat Fantasy — David Wilcox Roadhouse Blues — The Doors Rock 'N' Roll Damnation — AC/DC Rock and Roll — Led Zeppelin Rocky Mountain Way — Joe Walsh Roundabout — Yes Roxanne — The Police Runnin with the Devil — Van Halen Samba Pa Ti — Santana Simple Man — Lynyrd Skynyrd Since Ive Been Loving You — Led Zeppelin Sir Duke — Stevie Wonder Smoke on the Water — Deep Purple So Far Away — Sultans Of Swing (dire Straits Sound-a-like)So Goes the Story — Eddie Hazel So Lonely — The Police Stormy Monday — The Allman Brothers Band Suffragette City — David Bowie Superstition — Stevie Wonder Sweet Emotion — Aerosmith Sweet Home Alabama — Lynyrd Skynyrd Sweet Home Alabama — Lynyrd Skynyrd Sweet Leaf — Black Sabbath Şaşkın — Erkin Koray T.N.T. — AC/DC Take It Easy — Eagles Take Me Home Country Roads — John Denver The Boys Are Back in Town — Thin Lizzy The Devil Went Down to Georgia — Charlie Daniels Band Three Little Birds — Bob Marley Truckin — Grateful Dead Walk This Way — Aerosmith Walk This Way — Aerosmith War Pigs — Black Sabbath Whipping Post — The Allman Brothers Band Whole Lotta Love — Led Zeppelin Whole Lotta Rosie — AC/DC Wish You Were Here — Pink Floyd Wonderful Tonight — Eric Clapton Wont Get Fooled Again — The Who You Really Got Me — Van Halen Ziggy Stardust — David Bowie

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