Is Nirvana magic?

[oldangelmidnight]

For me, the tone is so tangled up with memory and nostalgia that I wouldn't be able to hear it in anything other than the records, even if it was all the same gear.

[sonidero]

You have to have this guitar...



And LOUD AMPS...

[sylnau]

http://pedalmaniacs.wordpress.com/category/nirvana/

BOSS DS-2 & Tech 21 Sansamp.

[GardenoftheDead]

I'd like to know how Nirvana sounds so amazing and all Kurt needed was a Boss pedal thru a Marshall. I know the REAL magic is always in the fingers, but I've never heard a DS-1 sound like Kurt made it sound. Any ideas or suggestions?

Wasn't it an OD-2? pretty sure I saw a yellow pedal there ... ?

yeah, i don't think it was a ds-1, doodz. od-2 and a tech 21 thingy and a small clone. bam.

It was a DS-1 from the beginning up until 1992. He switched to a DS-2 afterward and then picked up the Tech 21 for the In Utero tour. The DS-2 was kept on the board for The Man Who Sold the World.

The Small Clone got replaced with an Echoflanger and later a Polychorus.

[snipelfritz]

This may be blasphemy on a fuzz forum but I think his sound had as much to do with the beaten up pawn shop guitars and knocked around amps he was using as much as anything else...

That and keep in mind that what most people think and remember as the Nirvana sound is from the recordings....a whole lot of neat production work going on there....a lot of the Butch Vig and Steve Albini sound...

Duder, pawn shop guitars and beat up amps are more than welcome around here. Used gear is often a buried treasure waiting to be uncovered. That's what all those 80s alt rock guys did: cobain, mascis, sonic youth.

Oh and any post mentioning Steve Albini is super awesome.

[WeHuntKings]

for some reason i got the ds-2 and od-2 confused. the od-2 can sound exactly the same if you turn the color knob all the way to the dist. side, i believe...

[GardenoftheDead]

Duder, pawn shop guitars and beat up amps are more than welcome around here. Used gear is often a buried treasure waiting to be uncovered. That's what all those 80s alt rock guys did: cobain, mascis, sonic youth.

Sadly all you find in pawn shops here is entry level Ibanez guitars and that one in-house brand from Sam Ashs

[Legion]

Yup...see my other thread for more on that....it used to be that al that stuff was undesirable and everyone was looking for new, shiny and digital...but the word is out now and I doubt we'll see things turn around again....

The pawn shops have crap and the dealers know the worth of their wares...

Although...it's one of my dreams to grab a van and travel across the states digging through pawn shops, good wills, garage sales and deep into the backwoods looking for treasure....I'm sure that in those out of the way small towns there fuzzy gold to be found!

[Chumley]

Oh and any post mentioning Steve Albini is super awesome.

Albini is one of us, in spirit if not in, as it were, fact.

[madmax1012]

Digitech Grunge

[Legion]

Albini is a crank, a crackpot, a fussbudget, an anti digital luddite and a fucking genius...god love him!!!!

[snipelfritz]

Oh and any post mentioning Steve Albini is super awesome.

Albini is one of us, in spirit if not in, as it were, fact.

That would be so awesome if some user was secretly Steve Albini.

I think I mentioned this in another thread, but I was talking to some guy and I mentioned him. The guy was saying how he took a music recording/engineering class or whatever that was taught by him and that he didn't know he was in a band at all. I was all then I was all

[oldangelmidnight]

It was a DS-1 from the beginning up until 1992. He switched to a DS-2 afterward and then picked up the Tech 21 for the In Utero tour. The DS-2 was kept on the board for The Man Who Sold the World.
The Small Clone got replaced with an Echoflanger and later a Polychorus.

I always took this to mean that he didn't really give much of a shit what he used, as long as it was vaguely similar.

[D.o.S.]

For what it's worth, I've never really heard a live Nirvana tone that impressed me a whole lot.

[deadbeatriot]

For what it's worth, I've never really heard a live Nirvana tone that impressed me a whole lot.

i always figured that the whole point was not to sound very good...