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 · 4 blocksLive values · Boss Katana
Guitar
Ovation solidbody electric (live: Maton BB1200)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
C standard (C-F-Bb-Eb-G-C)
Clean
Fuzz
Room
Clean
← Ampeg VT-40 / blended solid-state amps
Gain
4
Volume
6
Bass
4
Middle
7
Treble
5
Presence
4
Fuzz
← Foxx octave fuzz (Tone Machine)
Drive
7.5
Bottom
5
Tone
5.5
Level
6
Room
← Studio room ambience
Time
3ms
PreDelay
14ms
Tone
4
EffectLevel
8
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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