No. 1462002·desert-rock·5 blocks
Go with the Flow
Josh Homme's driving, octave-fuzz desert-rock riff from Songs for the Deaf (2002). Producer Eric Valentine tracked the album to tape at Sound City and Conway with Homme's signature 'wrong-amp' palette — odd solid-state and bass amps (Ampeg VT-40, a V-4B bass head, Peavey) blended and miked off-axis for a thick ~600 Hz midrange. The grind comes from a Foxx octave fuzz, not the amp. Tuned two whole steps down to C standard for a fat, rolling low end.
Songs for the DeafSignal path · input → output · 7 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Ovation solidbody electric (live: Maton BB1200)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
C standard (C-F-Bb-Eb-G-C)
Deluxe Comp
Octave Fuzz
Minotaur
US Double Nrm
2x12 Double C12N
Room
Deluxe Comp
← Light tracking compression
Threshold
-30dB
Ratio
2:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
40s
Release
180s
Mix
30
Level
0dB
Octave Fuzz
← Foxx octave fuzz (Tone Machine)
Drive
7.5
Gain
6
Tone
5.5
Level
6
Minotaur
← Z.Vex Super Hard-On clean boost
Drive
3
Tone
6
Boost
6
Level
6
US Double Nrm
← Ampeg VT-40 / blended solid-state amps
Drive
4
Bass
4.5
Mid
7
Treble
5
Presence
4.5
ChVol
6
Master
5
Bias
5
BiasX
5
Sag
6
Hum
5
Ripple
5
2x12 Double C12N
← Guitar cab (undocumented), off-axis miked
LowCut90Hz
HighCut6500Hz
Resonance
0.5
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Room
← Studio room ambience
LowCut200Hz
HighCut6000Hz
Mix
8
Decay
0.6s
Predelay
14ms
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 146
Josh Homme's driving, octave-fuzz desert-rock riff from Songs for the Deaf (2002). Producer Eric Valentine tracked the album to tape at Sound City and Conway with Homme's signature 'wrong-amp' palette — odd solid-state and bass amps (Ampeg VT-40, a V-4B bass head, Peavey) blended and miked off-axis for a thick ~600 Hz midrange. The grind comes from a Foxx octave fuzz, not the amp. Tuned two whole steps down to C standard for a fat, rolling low end.
— Josh Homme
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