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 · Pedalboard
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1988 '57 AVRI)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
Eb standard
Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi (op-amp / V4)
Marshall JCM800 2203 (100W, 'Soul' head)
Marshall 1960 4x12 ('Mars' cab)
Shure SM57
Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi (op-amp / V4)
fuzz
Volume
6
Tone
7
Sustain
10
Marshall JCM800 2203 (100W, 'Soul' head)
preamp
Gain
2
Bass
5
Middle
6
Treble
6
Presence
5
Master
10
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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