No. 0841995·alternative·4 blocks
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
The world is a vampire — and the detonating chorus is a Fender Blender, not a Big Muff. Corgan named the pedal and the song together: 'at about two-and-a-half minutes there's a part where the key changes and it comes in all loud and thick.' Built on the Mellon Collie rig — a KT88-loaded JCM800 through a Mesa Strategy 500 power amp into a Marshall 4x12 — Bullet pairs hushed clean verses against that blown-out octave-fuzz chorus, all in Eb standard.
Mellon Collie and the Infinite SadnessSignal path · input → output · 7 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster ('57 Reissue)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
Eb standard
Deluxe Comp
Tycoctavia Fuzz
Brit 2203
4x12 Greenback 25
Simple Delay
Room
Deluxe Comp
← Input conditioning
Threshold
-30dB
Ratio
2:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
0.1s
Release
0.8s
Mix
0.5
Level
0dB
Tycoctavia Fuzz
← Fender Blender (octave fuzz)
Gain
0.8
Tone
0.6
Level
0.7
Brit 2203
← Marshall JCM800 2203 → Mesa Strategy 500
Drive
0.4
Bass
0.5
Mid
0.6
Treble
0.6
Presence
0.5
ChVol
0.5
Master
1
Bias
0.5
BiasX
0.5
Sag
0.5
Hum
0.5
Ripple
0.5
4x12 Greenback 25
← Marshall 1960 4x12 ('Mars')
LowCut85Hz
HighCut7000Hz
Resonance
0.5
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Simple Delay
← Chorus width (post)
LowCut200Hz
HighCut6000Hz
Time
0.1ms
Feedback
0.1
Mix
0.1
Level
0
Room
← Subtle ambience
LowCut200Hz
HighCut6500Hz
Mix
0.1
Decay
0.5s
Predelay
0.0ms
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 084
The world is a vampire — and the detonating chorus is a Fender Blender, not a Big Muff. Corgan named the pedal and the song together: 'at about two-and-a-half minutes there's a part where the key changes and it comes in all loud and thick.' Built on the Mellon Collie rig — a KT88-loaded JCM800 through a Mesa Strategy 500 power amp into a Marshall 4x12 — Bullet pairs hushed clean verses against that blown-out octave-fuzz chorus, all in Eb standard.
— Billy Corgan
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