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 · 6 blocksLive values · Neural DSP Quad Cortex
Guitar
Ovation Ultra GP (1984 solidbody)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
neck
Strings
C standard (C-F-Bb-Eb-G-C)
Studio Comp
Brit 2203
8x10 Bass Cab
Cry Baby Wah
Plate Reverb
Studio Comp
← Tracking compression
Threshold
-25dB
Ratio
3:1
Attack
35s
Release
220s
Mix
45
Level
0dB
Brit 2203
← Marshall JCM900 4100
Gain
7
Bass
7
Mid
6
Treble
5
Presence
4
Master
6
Sag
5.5
8x10 Bass Cab
← Ampeg 8x10 bass cabinet
LowCut50Hz
HighCut5000Hz
Level
0dB
Cry Baby Wah
← Dunlop Cry Baby Wah
Mix
100
Level
0
Plate Reverb
← Studio room / Goss ambience
Decay
1.2s
Predelay
20ms
Mix
10
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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