No. 0821992·grunge·4 blocks
Yellow Ledbetter
Cut at the Ten sessions but left off the album, Yellow Ledbetter is McCready's love letter to Hendrix's Little Wing — warm, bell-like clean chords with thumb-fretted bass notes and major-pentatonic fills, drenched in studio reverb. The documented guitar is a Fender '57 reissue Strat with a maple neck (not the black '62 he used elsewhere on Ten). The amp isn't named in any source, so this builds the clean Fender voice his Ten rig points to.
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Guitar
Fender Stratocaster ('57 Reissue, maple neck)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
neck
Strings
standard
Studio Comp
Bassguy Nrm
4x10 Bassman
Plate Reverb
Filter Tilt
Studio Comp
← Studio compression
Threshold
-30dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
10s
Release
200s
Mix
0.6
Level
0dB
Bassguy Nrm
← Fender Bassman (inferred)
Drive
2.5
Bass
5
Mid
5
Treble
6
Presence
5
MV
6
Cut
5
4x10 Bassman
← Fender 4x10 (Bassman-style)
LowCut90Hz
HighCut8500Hz
Level
0dB
Plate Reverb
← Studio plate / EMT
Mix
0.3
Decay
2.4s
Predelay
0.0ms
Filter Tilt
← Tilt EQ (global brightness)
Tilt
0.5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 082
Cut at the Ten sessions but left off the album, Yellow Ledbetter is McCready's love letter to Hendrix's Little Wing — warm, bell-like clean chords with thumb-fretted bass notes and major-pentatonic fills, drenched in studio reverb. The documented guitar is a Fender '57 reissue Strat with a maple neck (not the black '62 he used elsewhere on Ten). The amp isn't named in any source, so this builds the clean Fender voice his Ten rig points to.
— Mike McCready
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