Buddy Holly
The Blue Album's guitars aren't the blue Strat people assume. Rivers Cuomo re-recorded every guitar part himself at Electric Lady, mostly on guitars borrowed from producer Ric Ocasek, including Les Paul Junior Specials and a Jaguar, through his Mesa/Boogie Mark I into a tall Marshall cab, often at surprisingly low volume. Ocasek moved him to the bridge pickup, the band banned reverb, and everything was downstroked. That's the whole recipe: a small, dry, mid-heavy crunch.
Weezer (Blue Album)
What we checked
Computed by a program, on this recipe, every time this page is built. How this works
Preset files — 1 of 3 complete
- Helix builds complete — every block in the recipe is in the file
- Quad Cortex 4 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Noise Gate, Studio Compressor, CA MkCC+, 4x12 Brit 25. These load cleanly but are not the model named above — the file will sound wrong here until we map them. Set these blocks by hand.
- Katana 2 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Crunch, Noise Suppressor. These load cleanly but are not the model named above — the file will sound wrong here until we map them. Set these blocks by hand.
What we didn't check
- Nobody played this through a real amp. There is no human listening test behind any number on this page.
- The settings are reasoned from the sources below, not measured off the record.
- No audio has been rendered for this recipe yet, so you cannot hear it before you load it.
- 3 platforms on this page (TONEX, Kemper, Fractal) get a model pointer, not a preset file — nothing was built or checked for them.
