No. 0831993·alternative·4 blocks
Cherub Rock
Cherub Rock opens Siamese Dream with the most famous wall of guitars in alt-rock — and the recipe is gloriously simple: a late-'70s op-amp Big Muff Pi slammed into the low-gain input of a 100-watt Marshall JCM800 with the master cranked and the preamp barely on, so the saturation is all fuzz and the amp is the loud, clean power stage. Tracked in Eb standard and layered four-to-six takes deep into a roaring mono-to-stereo wall.
Siamese DreamSignal path · input → output · 7 blocksLive values · Fractal Axe-Fx
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1988 '57 AVRI)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
Eb standard
Studio Comp
PI Fuzz
Brit 800
4x12 Marshall
Digital Delay
Room
Studio Comp
← Input conditioning
Threshold
-28dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
10s
Release
180s
Mix
0.5
Level
0dB
PI Fuzz
← EHX Big Muff Pi (op-amp / V4)
Drive
7
Tone
6
Level
7
Brit 800
← Marshall JCM800 2203
Drive
2
Bass
5
Mid
6
Treble
6
Presence
5
MV
9
Cut
5
4x12 Marshall
← Marshall 1960 4x12 ('Mars')
LowCut80Hz
HighCut7000Hz
Level
0dB
Digital Delay
← Width / depth (post)
Time
60ms
Feedback
0.1
Mix
0.1
Room
← Subtle ambience
Mix
0.1
Decay
0.8s
Predelay
0.0ms
Engineer's note
File 083
Cherub Rock opens Siamese Dream with the most famous wall of guitars in alt-rock — and the recipe is gloriously simple: a late-'70s op-amp Big Muff Pi slammed into the low-gain input of a 100-watt Marshall JCM800 with the master cranked and the preamp barely on, so the saturation is all fuzz and the amp is the loud, clean power stage. Tracked in Eb standard and layered four-to-six takes deep into a roaring mono-to-stereo wall.
— Billy Corgan
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