D.o.S. wrote: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...
I saw Nirvana live twice, and Kurt definitely made his live sound as "ugly" as he could. Probably to turn off what he saw as the wannabe mainstream fans that liked the sugary mix on Nevermind, who he always openly loathed.
D.o.S. wrote: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...
I saw Nirvana live twice, and Kurt definitely made his live sound as "ugly" as he could. Probably to turn off what he saw as the wannabe mainstream fans that liked the sugary mix on Nevermind, who he always openly loathed.
Well, this gets to an important point - if the OP is basing his question around the sound from the studio albums, it's definitely not just a pedal + an amp... and even if it were, it's been EQ'd, tweaked, double-tracked and mastered to the point that's far beyond what one could get with that same single pedal & single amp in a live situation...
GardenoftheDead wrote: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.
I take it to mean I know way too much about Nirvana.
I was messing with my Musket Fuzz today and I found a slightly ugly distortiony Nirvana-y sound that I liked. With the pre max and the fuzz all the way down, and mids + tone almost maxed, I think it got pretty close to what a DS-1 sounds like cranked without the awful shrillness. Also, having the focus knob to adjust bass... I love my Musket
