No. 0472002·desert-rock·3 blocks
No One Knows
No One Knows features Josh Homme's signature desert rock tone: an Ovation GP guitar detuned to C-standard through an Ampeg bass amp for a thick, woolly wall of low-end. The unconventional use of a bass amp gives the guitar an enormous, earth-shaking fundamental that no guitar amp can replicate. The tone is heavy but not conventionally distorted -- it's more of a massive, compressed crunch.
Songs for the DeafSignal path · input → output · 4 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Ovation GP
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
c_standard
Ampeg VT-40 (guitar through bass amp)
Ampeg 4x10 Cabinet
Shure SM57
Ampeg VT-40 (guitar through bass amp)
preamp
Volume
7
Treble
4
Bass
7
Engineer's note
File 047
No One Knows features Josh Homme's signature desert rock tone: an Ovation GP guitar detuned to C-standard through an Ampeg bass amp for a thick, woolly wall of low-end. The unconventional use of a bass amp gives the guitar an enormous, earth-shaking fundamental that no guitar amp can replicate. The tone is heavy but not conventionally distorted -- it's more of a massive, compressed crunch.
— Josh Homme
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