No. 1502002·desert-rock·6 blocks
First It Giveth
Josh Homme's churning, mid-forward riff from Songs for the Deaf (2002). Producer Eric Valentine tracked the album to tape at Sound City through a deliberately 'wrong' palette of solid-state and bass amps (Ampeg V-4B, VT-40), miked off-axis for a thick low-mid body. The grind is a fuzz -- read as a Univox Super-Fuzz -- pushed by a Boss SD-1, with a GE-7 boosting around 400 Hz. Two whole steps down in C standard for a fat, rolling low end.
Songs for the DeafSignal path · input → output · 4 blocksLive values · Boss Katana
Guitar
Ovation Ultra GP (era: Maton MS-series)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
C standard (C-F-Bb-Eb-G-C)
Clean
Fuzz
Room
Clean
← Ampeg V-4B / VT-40 (blended solid-state amps)
Gain
4
Volume
6
Bass
4
Middle
7
Treble
5
Presence
4
Fuzz
← Univox Super-Fuzz (modified U-1095)
Drive
7.5
Bottom
5
Tone
5
Level
6
Room
← Studio room ambience
Time
3ms
PreDelay
14ms
Tone
4
EffectLevel
8
Engineer's note
File 150
Josh Homme's churning, mid-forward riff from Songs for the Deaf (2002). Producer Eric Valentine tracked the album to tape at Sound City through a deliberately 'wrong' palette of solid-state and bass amps (Ampeg V-4B, VT-40), miked off-axis for a thick low-mid body. The grind is a fuzz -- read as a Univox Super-Fuzz -- pushed by a Boss SD-1, with a GE-7 boosting around 400 Hz. Two whole steps down in C standard for a fat, rolling low end.
— Josh Homme
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