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 · Neural DSP Quad Cortex
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1988 '57 AVRI)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
Eb standard
LA Compressor
Muff Fuzz
Brit 2203
4x12 Marshall
Digital Delay
Room
LA Compressor
← Input conditioning
Threshold
-28dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
10s
Release
180s
Mix
50
Level
0dB
Muff Fuzz
← EHX Big Muff Pi (op-amp / V4)
Drive
7
Tone
6
Level
7
Brit 2203
← Marshall JCM800 2203
Gain
2
Bass
5
Mid
6
Treble
6
Presence
5
Master
9
Sag
5
4x12 Marshall
← Marshall 1960 4x12 ('Mars')
LowCut80Hz
HighCut7000Hz
Level
0dB
Digital Delay
← Width / depth (post)
Time
60ms
Feedback
5
Mix
12
Level
0
Room
← Subtle ambience
Decay
0.8s
Predelay
20ms
Mix
12
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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