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 · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1988 '57 AVRI)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
Eb standard
Deluxe Comp
Industrial Fuzz
Brit 2203
4x12 Greenback 25
Simple Delay
Room
Deluxe Comp
← Input conditioning
Threshold
-30dB
Ratio
2:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
100s
Release
800s
Mix
50
Level
0dB
Industrial Fuzz
← EHX Big Muff Pi (op-amp / V4)
Gain
7
Tone
6
Level
7
Brit 2203
← Marshall JCM800 2203
Drive
2
Bass
5
Mid
6
Treble
6
Presence
5
ChVol
5
Master
10
Bias
5
BiasX
5
Sag
5
Hum
5
Ripple
5
4x12 Greenback 25
← Marshall 1960 4x12 ('Mars')
LowCut80Hz
HighCut7000Hz
Resonance
0.5
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Simple Delay
← Width / depth (post)
LowCut200Hz
HighCut6000Hz
Time
60ms
Feedback
5
Mix
12
Level
0
Room
← Subtle ambience
LowCut200Hz
HighCut6500Hz
Mix
12
Decay
0.4s
Predelay
20ms
Level
0
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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