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 · 7 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Ovation Ultra GP (era: Maton MS-series)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
C standard (C-F-Bb-Eb-G-C)
Univox Super-Fuzz (modified U-1095)
Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive
Boss GE-7 Graphic EQ
Ampeg V-4B / VT-40 (blended solid-state & bass amps)
Guitar cab (model undocumented), off-axis miked
Sony C-37A (with Sennheiser MD441 + RCA 44 room)
Univox Super-Fuzz (modified U-1095)
fuzz
Balance
7
Expander
6
Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive
overdrive
Level
6
Tone
5
Drive
4
Boss GE-7 Graphic EQ
eq
Ampeg V-4B / VT-40 (blended solid-state & bass amps)
preamp
Volume
7
Bass
5
Middle
7
Treble
5
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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