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 · 5 blocksLive values · Boss Katana
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1988 '57 AVRI)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
Eb standard
Fuzz
Lead
Delay
Reverb
Fuzz
← EHX Big Muff Pi (op-amp / V4)
Drive
90
Bottom
60
Tone
60
Level
70
Lead
← Marshall JCM800 2203
Gain
30
Volume
60
Bass
50
Middle
60
Treble
60
Presence
50
Master
60
Delay
← Width / depth (post)
Time
60ms
Feedback
5
EffectLevel
12
Reverb
← Subtle ambience
Time
8ms
PreDelay
15ms
Tone
50
EffectLevel
12
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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