No. 1531992·desert-rock·4 blocks
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The slow, woolly opener of Kyuss's Blues for the Red Sun (1992) -- Josh Homme's heaviest low end on the record. Same Chris Goss / Sound City rig as the rest of the album: an Ovation Ultra GP down-tuned to C standard, driven through a Marshall JCM900 4100 into an Ampeg 8x10 BASS cabinet. 'Thumb' leans on the guitar's neck pickup for a darker, subterranean voice -- the dirt is amp gain, with no fuzz pedal in the chain.
Blues for the Red SunSignal path · input → output · 7 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Ovation Ultra GP (1984 solidbody)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
neck
Strings
C standard (C-F-Bb-Eb-G-C)
Noise Gate
LA Studio Comp
Brit 2204 Nrm
8x10 Bass
Fassel
Plate
Noise Gate
← Studio noise gate
Threshold
7dB
Decay
5s
LA Studio Comp
← Tracking compression
Threshold
-25dB
Ratio
3:1
Knee
4dB
Attack
35s
Release
220s
Mix
45
Level
0dB
Brit 2204 Nrm
← Marshall JCM900 4100
Drive
7
Bass
7
Mid
6
Treble
5
Presence
4
ChVol
6
Master
6
Bias
5.5
BiasX
5
Sag
5.5
Hum
5
Ripple
5
8x10 Bass
← Ampeg 8x10 bass cabinet
LowCut50Hz
HighCut5000Hz
Resonance
0.7
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Fassel
← Dunlop Cry Baby Wah
Mix
100
Level
0
Plate
← Studio room / Goss ambience
LowCut220Hz
HighCut5800Hz
Mix
10
Decay
1.2s
Predelay
20ms
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 153
The slow, woolly opener of Kyuss's Blues for the Red Sun (1992) -- Josh Homme's heaviest low end on the record. Same Chris Goss / Sound City rig as the rest of the album: an Ovation Ultra GP down-tuned to C standard, driven through a Marshall JCM900 4100 into an Ampeg 8x10 BASS cabinet. 'Thumb' leans on the guitar's neck pickup for a darker, subterranean voice -- the dirt is amp gain, with no fuzz pedal in the chain.
— Josh Homme
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