@@0zonesection If I told you I've been obsessed with that tone for 28 years now, would you believe it? It took youtube to realise I'm not the only one... ;-) It's the perfect balance of many ingredients. The way he strums the strings, the pickups, the amp and the way it was captured by Steve albini. There are a bunch of other songs where you can hear that tone but "Rape me" is probably the one where it stands out more.
Man. Listen to his playing during the first verse. This is why I think Kurt is a great guitar player. It sounds so CHUNKY! He's doing such a weird half-muted kind of strumming/picking, so sometimes you'll hear slightly muted strings or weird mostly-unintentional harmonics... it just makes the guitar part so much more interesting to listen to than just regular strumming, and he knew what he was doing.
Alot of it is the producer Steve Albini, check one of the other posts on this vid, they explain that Kurt used some of Albinis guitars, some weird Univox and some other odd shit. The chuck isn't his technique obviously, it's the equipment and production. It might be a great sounding shitty cheap guitar...not cheap no more. The clean track goes all the way through so it's under the distorted part, and to my ears so is something else, something bizarre, it's almost like they have another distorted guitar EXTREMELY low in the mix doing bat shit crazy lead stuff under the distortion and it's bleeding into the clean track. It's weird. Listening to these isolation tracks is bringing Nirvana back for me, I haven't been this stoked about Nirvana or guitar in a long time, it's like a rebirth of the music
@@whatabouttheearth Sounds like it, but its not a shitty cheap guitar. Pretty sure the main track, (the guitar used in the opening riff) is one of 3(?) veleno aluminum guitars owned by Steve Albini. They have a really distinctive sound to them. Watch "ua-cam.com/video/fz48yBsvweA/v-deo.html" This guy built a Veleno, the same config as the one used during the recording. Sure some of this rich tone could have also been amplfiied by the recording but it was 70/30 Kurt playing the Velono and his technique. Kurt wasn't that bad of a guitar player, all he did was just play simple riffs.
The "In Utero" sound was greatly contributed by Albini's extensive use of room mics. Kurt said in an interview (in a written one I guess) that he never seen so many microphones in a recording session, engineer Albini was basically placing mics everywhere in the room (he's famous for his love of microphones). I came here to check if the guitar has the same roomy sound, and here we go. Unlike Nevermind's """polished"" sound there's this extremely roomy, nicely muddy sound that is a characteristic of the whole record. Next time I record guitars (or even vocals) I'd probably record in stereo, placing a mic right in front of cab and another far far away.
@@unknown.24 Oh shit I never even noticed until I listened to the guitar track. I am a Cobain fanatic and have been for the past 3 years. I was 10 when I started to look into him and started playing guitar. Im in a tribute band now. Rest in Pisces man.
@@unknown.24 he gets the sound live by himself though. it may be two guitars, but cobain also plays a certain way, and on a certain guitar (mustang i think?) to get that raw scratchy sound. specifically closer to the bridge
"A sort of poetic justice, where a guy rapes a girl, ends up in jail, and gets raped there." This is not what it's about at all, that's just editorializing.
I always thought it was about the "rape" of Kurt's privacy... By magazines like Vanity Fair and other media outlets... But what do I know? I was only 18 in 1994.
I think he meant the song primarily to be about violation in general, from people fuck with each other's heads as well as from vampire fans and the media who lose track of artists' humanity in the pursuit of whatever twisted goal they might have. The music was written on acoustic, typical for Cobain, in May 1991 as Nevermind was being mixed. But the bridge lyrics were written much later as the height of the paparazzi invasions into his personal life began to crescendo. As an avowed feminist, Cobain also intended it as an inversion of the rape dynamics turned upon the rapist, but Cobain later admitted that he was uncomfortable with his overly casual handling of the subject matter.
Yeah, makes sense because there's a few performances of it from 1991 on youtube where the bridge part is omitted entirely (I think the Paramount is one example, but if not there's definitely a few other recordings of them playing it around then - I never realised the song was that old, tbh).
@@andrew2393 I don't think they are an avowed feminist. They were saying Kurt Cobain was. And the entire comment was probably a cut-paste quote from somewhere else. So you're getting farther and farther away from your real target dude...
The best guitar tone of the 90s
Clean yet Dirty, Muddy yet Shinny
@@6FtBeats That’s honestly the best way to put it
@@0zonesection If I told you I've been obsessed with that tone for 28 years now, would you believe it? It took youtube to realise I'm not the only one... ;-)
It's the perfect balance of many ingredients. The way he strums the strings, the pickups, the amp and the way it was captured by Steve albini. There are a bunch of other songs where you can hear that tone but "Rape me" is probably the one where it stands out more.
i love it, but adam jones has him beat in terms of tone
@@Chenovski00 This a very subjective matter anyway. However as a guitar player Adam Jones's Tone is not hard for me to emulate compare to this.
Wow never knew there was that little extra riff in the chorus
Anthony Sclafani discovered too after almost 10 years of listening to nirvana
@@Makminah_ You could say that.
omg there is never noticed that
How! that was so noticeable, I even like this song because of this small lick
I knew that little riff from live performances, because that's what Pat Smear played during the outro but I never noticed it was on the original too.
The clean guitar tone is the 'trademark' of the 90s guitar sound.
Jeez, that clean sound
Man. Listen to his playing during the first verse. This is why I think Kurt is a great guitar player. It sounds so CHUNKY! He's doing such a weird half-muted kind of strumming/picking, so sometimes you'll hear slightly muted strings or weird mostly-unintentional harmonics... it just makes the guitar part so much more interesting to listen to than just regular strumming, and he knew what he was doing.
Alot of it is the producer Steve Albini, check one of the other posts on this vid, they explain that Kurt used some of Albinis guitars, some weird Univox and some other odd shit. The chuck isn't his technique obviously, it's the equipment and production.
It might be a great sounding shitty cheap guitar...not cheap no more.
The clean track goes all the way through so it's under the distorted part, and to my ears so is something else, something bizarre, it's almost like they have another distorted guitar EXTREMELY low in the mix doing bat shit crazy lead stuff under the distortion and it's bleeding into the clean track. It's weird.
Listening to these isolation tracks is bringing Nirvana back for me, I haven't been this stoked about Nirvana or guitar in a long time, it's like a rebirth of the music
@@whatabouttheearth Sounds like it, but its not a shitty cheap guitar. Pretty sure the main track, (the guitar used in the opening riff) is one of 3(?) veleno aluminum guitars owned by Steve Albini. They have a really distinctive sound to them.
Watch "ua-cam.com/video/fz48yBsvweA/v-deo.html" This guy built a Veleno, the same config as the one used during the recording. Sure some of this rich tone could have also been amplfiied by the recording but it was 70/30 Kurt playing the Velono and his technique. Kurt wasn't that bad of a guitar player, all he did was just play simple riffs.
Dude that chorus is absolutely massive
The "In Utero" sound was greatly contributed by Albini's extensive use of room mics. Kurt said in an interview (in a written one I guess) that he never seen so many microphones in a recording session, engineer Albini was basically placing mics everywhere in the room (he's famous for his love of microphones). I came here to check if the guitar has the same roomy sound, and here we go. Unlike Nevermind's """polished"" sound there's this extremely roomy, nicely muddy sound that is a characteristic of the whole record.
Next time I record guitars (or even vocals) I'd probably record in stereo, placing a mic right in front of cab and another far far away.
Pay attention to phasing.
@@brandonobrien7239 true. Albini does the room mic thing all the time but he always takes good care of alignment as it should be.
that and albinis veleno
@@Henriqueleal0609 was used on a couple of songs. i think "very ape" and "rape me"
0:59 if you listen closely you can actually hear the distortion pedal click
At 2:22 u can heard lead guitar thats burried deep in the mix sadly
ṨpacedΛce Sa wonder how much better the song would’ve been if that stood out more.
@@iwasbroco6126 i always heard that riff
@@captainwalter nice
sounds like it’s playing the melody
0:47 how TF do you get this clean sound
There is two guitars, one without effects and the other with chorus
@@unknown.24 Oh shit I never even noticed until I listened to the guitar track. I am a Cobain fanatic and have been for the past 3 years. I was 10 when I started to look into him and started playing guitar. Im in a tribute band now. Rest in Pisces man.
@@unknown.24 he gets the sound live by himself though. it may be two guitars, but cobain also plays a certain way, and on a certain guitar (mustang i think?) to get that raw scratchy sound. specifically closer to the bridge
@@captainwalter Yeah. Mustang, SD JB in the bridge, plays very close to the bridge. Pat on the second guitar adds a bit to the sound, too.
Not very clean.. a little bit crunch.
i wish there was a full track with only the first 3 seconds playing over and over again
Is it just me or it feels like in Nirvana's songs there are both clean and distortion tracks playing in chorus?
Wise mystical tree
Also yes nirvana multitracked alot
you can clearly hear second guitar single string riff in the left channel of the chorus!! never heard it before!
1:20 countess bathory sample
okay so everyone hears that little riff in the chorus. WHAT ARE THE TABS PLEASE TELL ME
tune the A string one semitone down to Ab and it is 0 0 3 3 7 7 7 5 3 2 0 on that string
"A sort of poetic justice, where a guy rapes a girl, ends up in jail, and gets raped there."
This is not what it's about at all, that's just editorializing.
Isnt that about a sublime song
Kurt literally said that quote in an interview, so it might be about that lol
I always thought it was about the "rape" of Kurt's privacy... By magazines like Vanity Fair and other media outlets... But what do I know? I was only 18 in 1994.
0:46 can definitely hear a univox at this part
aaron rash previously made a guitar tone video and one of the guitars used in the whole albums is apparently the veleno
@@AyeAjayyhe probably means this trebly sounding second guitar track on 2nd verse. Veleno sounds darker and twangy in the background
I think he meant the song primarily to be about violation in general, from people fuck with each other's heads as well as from vampire fans and the media who lose track of artists' humanity in the pursuit of whatever twisted goal they might have. The music was written on acoustic, typical for Cobain, in May 1991 as Nevermind was being mixed. But the bridge lyrics were written much later as the height of the paparazzi invasions into his personal life began to crescendo.
As an avowed feminist, Cobain also intended it as an inversion of the rape dynamics turned upon the rapist, but Cobain later admitted that he was uncomfortable with his overly casual handling of the subject matter.
Yeah, makes sense because there's a few performances of it from 1991 on youtube where the bridge part is omitted entirely (I think the Paramount is one example, but if not there's definitely a few other recordings of them playing it around then - I never realised the song was that old, tbh).
@@andrew2393 I don't think they are an avowed feminist. They were saying Kurt Cobain was. And the entire comment was probably a cut-paste quote from somewhere else. So you're getting farther and farther away from your real target dude...
BPM???
0:29
0:29
best part
How do I play that riff in the outro?
My fav part is the verse at 00:10
Same, and pretty cool to play
what is the tempo?
DD UDUDD
It wasn’t recorded to a click track my dude
This is identical to the original source
Live Wyre It is the original one
1:16