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 · 5 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Ovation Ultra GP (1984 solidbody)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
neck
Strings
C standard (C-F-Bb-Eb-G-C)
Marshall JCM900 4100
Ampeg 8x10 bass cabinet (SVT-style)
Dunlop Cry Baby Wah (textural)
Shure SM57 (assumed)
Marshall JCM900 4100
preamp
Gain
7
Bass
7
Middle
6
Treble
5
Presence
4
Master
6
Dunlop Cry Baby Wah (textural)
wah
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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