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 · 5 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Ovation Ultra GP (1984 solidbody)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
C standard (C-F-Bb-Eb-G-C)
Dunlop Cry Baby Wah
Marshall JCM900 4100
Ampeg 8x10 bass cabinet (SVT-style)
Shure SM57 (assumed)
Dunlop Cry Baby Wah
wah
Marshall JCM900 4100
preamp
Gain
8
Bass
7
Middle
6
Treble
6
Presence
5
Master
6
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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