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 · 6 blocksLive values · Kemper Profiler
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1988 '57 AVRI)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
Eb standard
Compressor
Muff Fuzz
Search Rig Exchange for 'Marshall JCM800 clean'
Delay
Room Reverb
Compressor
← Input conditioning
Intensity
3
Attack
0.1s
Volume
0
Muff Fuzz
← EHX Big Muff Pi (op-amp / V4)
Drive
7
Tone
6
Volume
7
Search Rig Exchange for 'Marshall JCM800 clean'
← Marshall JCM800 2203
Gain
2
Bass
5
Middle
6
Treble
6
Presence
5
Delay
← Width / depth (post)
Time
60ms
Feedback
0.1
Mix
0.1
Room Reverb
← Subtle ambience
Decay
0.8s
Predelay
15ms
Mix
0.1
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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