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 Sun coverBlues for the Red Sun
Settings for
Signal path · input → output · 4 blocksLive values · Boss Katana
Guitar
Ovation Ultra GP (1984 solidbody)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
neck
Strings
C standard (C-F-Bb-Eb-G-C)
Brown
Wah
Plate
Brown
← Marshall JCM900 4100
Amp
Gain
6
Volume
6
Bass
7
Middle
6
Treble
5
Presence
4
Wah
← Dunlop Cry Baby Wah
Wah
Level
6
Plate
← Studio room / Goss ambience
Reverb
Time
6ms
PreDelay
20ms
Tone
3
EffectLevel
10

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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