No. 1521992·desert-rock·4 blocks
Green Machine
The blueprint of desert/stoner rock: Josh Homme's molten riff from Kyuss's Blues for the Red Sun (1992). Produced by Chris Goss at Sound City, the tone is a down-tuned guitar (Ovation Ultra GP, DiMarzio Super 2s) driven hard through a Marshall JCM900 4100 into an Ampeg 8x10 BASS cabinet -- the famous 'guitar through a bass rig' move that gives the riff its woolly, earth-moving low end. The dirt is amp gain plus wah, not a fuzz pedal.
Blues for the Red SunSignal path · input → output · 7 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Ovation Ultra GP (1984 solidbody)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
C standard (C-F-Bb-Eb-G-C)
Noise Gate
LA Studio Comp
Fassel
Brit 2204 Brt
8x10 Bass
Plate
Noise Gate
← Studio noise gate
Threshold
6dB
Decay
4s
LA Studio Comp
← Tracking compression
Threshold
-26dB
Ratio
3:1
Knee
4dB
Attack
30s
Release
200s
Mix
40
Level
0dB
Fassel
← Dunlop Cry Baby Wah
Mix
100
Level
0
Brit 2204 Brt
← Marshall JCM900 4100
Drive
8
Bass
7
Mid
6
Treble
6
Presence
5
ChVol
6
Master
6
Bias
5.5
BiasX
5
Sag
5
Hum
5
Ripple
5
8x10 Bass
← Ampeg 8x10 bass cabinet
LowCut55Hz
HighCut5500Hz
Resonance
0.6
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Plate
← Studio room / Goss ambience
LowCut200Hz
HighCut6000Hz
Mix
9
Decay
1s
Predelay
18ms
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 152
The blueprint of desert/stoner rock: Josh Homme's molten riff from Kyuss's Blues for the Red Sun (1992). Produced by Chris Goss at Sound City, the tone is a down-tuned guitar (Ovation Ultra GP, DiMarzio Super 2s) driven hard through a Marshall JCM900 4100 into an Ampeg 8x10 BASS cabinet -- the famous 'guitar through a bass rig' move that gives the riff its woolly, earth-moving low end. The dirt is amp gain plus wah, not a fuzz pedal.
— Josh Homme
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