Nirvana Guitar Tones with 5 Cheap Pedals | Reverb Potent Pairings
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Kurt Cobain knew how to get iconic rock tone using ubiquitous pedals, and we're here to call out some of his greatest thrifty picks in our #PotentPairings exploration of Cobain's Nirvana pedal board.
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Reverb has some balls to not disable the comments
Some heavy ones
huge balls
@red_array except everyone because the comments may have feedback for the person who uploaded the vídeo
They accept criticism
Big props to em
lol
1 - You are never supposed to turn on the boost mode on the DS2 while playing Nirvana.
2 - Cobain loved mids and lows. He particularly liked the Bleach guitar tone. So much so, that In Utero has a similar tone. That means, you should ALWAYS leave the DS1/DS2 tone knob on 11 o'clock or less (sometimes down to 9), and the amp should have the the mids cranked all the way up.
3 - Cobain LOVED gain, and played really loud. He used stomp boxes in order to boost that gain even higher.
Territorial Pissings in the other hand, was spot on.
thank you. and, the chorus needs to have the depth switch down,
All of that’s spot on, except I believe live at reading ‘92 used the DS2 turbo mode!
He only used the turbo in the reading 92 show
I get almost perfect nirvana tones with keeping bass and mids at 12 o clock and putting the treble at max and with a DS-2 with the tone at 3 o clock
nerd lol
Kurt actually did use the grunge pedal live for a couple songs before chucking it into the crowd
He used that pedal and the SansAmp in the Live And Loud
Grunge pedal is a modified Rat
Sounds exactly like it looks. (Like a POS.)
@@sea-bee2463 ¿XD?
yeah he would put it on his pedal board to trick people into thinking he used it
Pedals: Ds1 and Small Clone
Guitar: any bad cheap guitar
End.
Don't forget the humbuckers!
That is a dumb comment. He had two super distortions in his guitar. Those are some of the best pick ups ever made.
I’m gonna take this very seriously and get these 2 pedals. I’m a simple man
*Laughs in Fender jag-stang
Laughs in a Seymour Duncan modified Squier Bullet Strat
Hey mom can we get "come as you are"
No we have "come as you are at home"
Come as you are at home: 2:22
It kinda sounds like it but its far from it
Come home as you are.
XD why does it sound so bad
Lmao
The rate is too high I think, it also sounds like the guitar is out of tune.
I love how literally none of these sounded anything like Nirvana.
FireFist They need to be correctly set.
It needs to be produced they did some old school stuff on their recordings
That's just silly. Definitely the distorted/overdriven tones were in the ballpark given they were using cheaper, readily accessible gear.
Especially the come as you are😂.
How do they always manage to do that? I mean they have the right pedals lol
It doesn’t sound bad, it just sounds like nirvana live without being totally overproduced.
Oof! You, Sir, have rightfully earned my like.
You can’t overproduce live lmao he just doesn’t have the pedal settings right you just gotta get the right tone. All nirvana used live was DS-2 Boss turbo Distortion, Small Clone, and The Poly Chorus pedal. Literally nothing else. If they had any other pedals it was for display
@@Iloveyou-xx8zc are u sure??
nirvana live was fucking sick lmaoo this vid just didn’t- it’s a mess
@@lihclore yes and I’m pretty sure Kurt used fender amps or Marshall either of the two would be cool and use a guitar with humbuckers a single coil is fine but HH would be better. Also if you wanna get the Nevermind sound I’m pretty sure he used both da-1 and ds2 pedals along with the small clone and to get the orchestral sound just add guitar tracks over guitar tracks. And to get that In Utero sound just use a DS-2 Turbo Distortion Pedal that’s pretty much the only pedal they used on that and The Poly Chorus for Radio Unit and Scentless Apprentice. Also if you wanna get that unique sound just put a lot of weird feedback behind your guitar tracks.
4:13 smells like “old school thrash metal” spirit
😂 Yes
I didn't even realize that was teen spirit until you put the time stamp it sounded so bad😂
Holy shit! That grunge pedal makes me want to drink pineapple juice after I've brushed my teeth.
Holy shit lol fuck that
Savage
Don't forget when you have a cut on your tongue.
@@jager9022 you have some bad taste that grunge pedal is awesome
The key part of this video is the end. Plugging in your first fuzz / dirt box, strumming that power chord, and being like "I am a ROCK GOD!!" Yeah, that's the best. Dimebag Darrell said the same thing "Once I got my first fuzz box it was over...I was obsessed."
I'll try to get all the mistakes I could find on this video:
-Kurt didn't put humbuckers in his Jaguar, he bought it already modified by someone else.
-The BOSS DS-1 was only used to the whole Bleach era, including recordings and touring.
-Kurt used the BOSS DS-2 Turbo Distortion for the Nevermind recording and tour, and he continued to use it until the In Utero era onstage because they still played Nevermind songs. Plus, he didn't used the Turbo option, so he just equalized it the same way he used to do in his DS-1. This pedal WAS NOT used to play or record In Utero songs, instead he used a Sansamp both on the album and touring.
-The dude played Heart-Shaped Box without the drop-tuning.
-He didn't replace his PolyChorus or the Echoflanger with the Small Clone, the Small Clone was used obviously to get the chorus effect, but the PolyChorus or the Echoflanger were used to get those crazy sounds from Radio Friendly Unit Shifter or when they played Endless Nameless onstage (the Echoflanger was used to record In Utero and the PolyChorus was used for the In Utero tour).
- Certainly I don't know what they did wrong with the Small Clone but sounds nothing but the actual Come As You Are tone, I think it has something to do with the Depth switch.
-It is said that Kurt used the Big Muff in the recording of Lithium, but is not known for sure, but it is most likely (though it could be confused with the tone of the DS-2 with the distortion all the way up, just listen for example at the end of Nirvana's VMA 1992 performance when Kurt throws his guitar, sounds like a fuzz but is a DS-2).
-The DOD Grunge was used by Kurt in a few shows on the In Utero tour around late 1993, but it was totally on joke. He literally said in one show something like "I have a new pedal, and it's called "the grunge pedal" ". It was so much of a joke that he threw the pedal in one show and like 20 years later a dude came with it to Pawn Stars.
@@Ryan-rn3cf Oh yes, I remember reading something like that, but I think I'm mixing two different stories, but it was something about a broken amp that blew up after recording with it.
It was most likely inspired by his friends Sonic Youth who would record albums with broken pawn shop gear. They’d leave the amps busted and the guitars in the same tuning they were in the store (meaning completely out of tune.) There is no reason why someone couldn’t do this same thing today and come up with a new sound. Chasing Cobains sound is pointless but the story of the In Utero guitar amp is inspiring. That amp probably cost $100 when he got it and he could’ve used any amp in the world. Not to mention god knows how many ppl tried to talk him into using something else. Im guessing a modern day equivalent would be something by Line 6 or First Act.
Shut up no one will read thay
@@oliverscholl4108 then why do you bother to reply?
te faltó algo sí, todos confunden el Turbo Distortion con un pedal que usaba kurt, y es el Feedbacker Distortion, muy parecido sobre todo por el tono naranjo, pero este pedal tenia un feedback que usaba en vivo. Otra cosa es que no mencionaste es la Sansamp gt2 que usó en toda le epoca de IN UTERO. Saludosss
Songs List:
1:00 In Bloom (DS-1)
1:39 Heart-Shaped Box (DS-2)
2:22 Come As You Are (Small Clone)
2:59 Lithium (Big Muff)
3:30 Territorial Pissings (Rat)
4:13 Smells Like Teen Spirit (Grunge)
Come as you are sounded horrible
inaki font blame the company two comments up
freddy sims fender?
bullshit!
it sounded wonderful!
inaki font the switch on the left (rate) setting was flipped up. when flipped down sounds like come as you are..
inaki font good lord sounds like the worst fret buzz I've ever heard😂 R.I.P he ruined come as you are
-just busting your balls thanks for the video
I almost pissed myself laughing at “Come As You Are”. Seriously, what the hell was that
Honestly I thought it sounded close, and WAYYY better than the original.
@@RoachDoggJr2112 You are joking, right?
@@joandrumz3176 Absolutely not. Nirvana, in my opinion, had extremely mediocre tone. Just barely good enough.
@@RoachDoggJr2112 But that didn't sound good at all in my opinion, I mean I definitely prefer the original.
@@joandrumz3176 Maybe you're just used to Nirvana's mediocre tone.
4:12 As great a song as Teen Spirit is, I probably would've gone into Breed or even Floyd the Barber after that awesome feedback
What about "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle"? underrated song
S Hauser I don't know that song, which album was it off?
Andrew Pappas ohhhhhh lord Floyd the barber would’ve been perfect
Andrew Pappas or at least negative creep
Andrew Pappas in utero
The dialed-in tone on the small clone sounded all wrong
extreeeemly low depth and high rate.
It had way too much depth, even if the rate (to my ears) sounded somewhat close. In general, the guitar itself was too far back in the "mix" when compared with the effects. I know some pedals have a way to adjust this, not sure about the ones in this video.
It sounded too far into vibrato territory.
i'm loving it even if it seems to being not in tune
no it didn't, it sounded all right!
Cool of you guys to upload this on Kurt’s Birthday
I don't even like Nirvana, but I could not help but laugh out loud with that come as you are tone
same
It sounded like he tuned the strings down enough to sound like a bass lol
@@Anzac1 well it's much higher than a bass, but he had not used the small clone right. kurt had really heavy strings which kept the tension tuned down
"Sell the kids for pedals"
lol
Killer playing Joe! Loving the tones.
Hey...you look sorta familiar. Do we know you? ;)
Oh you fender
Fender you got some bad ass guitars
Fender no
@ lmao
It's like... No one wanted to do this video but they did it anyways because it's their job.
Right title of the video: "What happens when a Jamiroquai fan plays Nirvana songs".
lmao
Come as you are.........the tone this guy used was awful
heart-shaped box is dropped tuning as well. come on bro
@EntityZero i thought it was drop c#
Leck Medick It’s the same thing
Everyone knows that right? 🤣
Who cares, like honestly.
@@yourpersonalhatecomment2025 peoples ears
nirvana probably paid even less than you did for their gear when they started 😂
i heard on a one of those homevideos they would make that they convinced one guy to sell them a left handed mustang for about $70
@@alienvolt7741 They were at a party, and someone sold them either the Fender Mustang with the stripes (Competition Mustang), or the Greco mustang. On Disc one of With the Lights Out, Kurt is using a Greco Mustang. He sanded off the logo
Yeah I’m bleach he used one amp, one guitar, and one pedal (boss ds1)
inflation
Well yeah...that was 25+ years ago...
Correction:
Boss ds-1 was ueed durong the bleach era, then when nirvana took over the world in the nevermind era in 1991, he used his hoss ds-2 tuebo distortion for the nevermind era, then during the in utero era he used the sans amp classic as his main distortion
I think the most impressive about these videos Reverb puts out is all the diehards that come out of the basement
This is hilarious. Probably their mom's basement.
They literally use the same pedals he used and people still manage to complain about how it doesn’t sound like him
synthmalicious That is true in a sense, they are using modern pedals, which while easier to acquire, sound similar but not identical to the originals.
@@TheKurtTribute stop smoking crack, please. It's a fucking circuit
@@yallimsorry5983 Go back to the basement, son
2:22 I could listen to that all day.
How can you literally get the EXACT same pedals as Nirvana and still not sound like them? Answer: Be Reverb!
It sounded good to me, i dunno why so much hate, come as you are was floppy af tho
To get his sound it takes a decade-long heroin addiction and being married to Courtney for a few years..that's where the dark tones of angst and self-loathing come from.....also I believe they're missing the DOD Grunge pedal... that album came out when I was in high school,and if you could play these songs on guitar, you could get laid.
Smells like teen spirit is just fuzz. No audible fuzz
omg it's almost like sound involves a lot more than which pedals you use!!!!
the same pedal wouldn't make sound like the artist, you need the same gear (including cables)
1. the turbo on the ds-2 wasnt engaged,
2. the big muff was on in bloom, and the ds-1 on lithium, switch em round
3. territorial pissings was the guitar straight into the mixer, krist used the rat for bass (breed for a obvious example)
The Big Muff sounded hoorrrrrrendous on Lithium! lol
Butch Vig claims that the big muff was used on lithium and I thought Kurts tech always claimed that he didn't like the DS-2 so he didn't use the turbo mode?
Yeah, Big Muff was on Lithium and he didn't use the turbo mode on the DS-2
I always hear that Kurt used a Rat but i never hear it. I have a rat myself but seriously, other than some in utero tones, like frances farmer, very ape, sappy, i really dont think he used it much if at all. I think on territorial pissing that was one of the very few songs the bass used distortion on and it seems theres only a very little being added all.
1. Kurt never used the Turbo setting.
2. He used the correct pedals on the correct songs
3. Territorial pissings was split between amp and the rat, and the bass sound on breed was not a pedal, they overloaded the board.
Ok too much depth to the chorus on Come As You Are, but pretty good otherwise, I think a lot of Kurt's sound on record honestly comes from Butch Vig's production which, incidentally, is peerless
Evan Phillips i agree evan..some parts from the documentary of nevermind shows that some songs have like 3 different amps with three different distorted sounds. Its all studio experiment as usual.
He did use the grunge pedal sometimes live in December 1993
And I think also really late novermber. And the nat I think 11th december he threw it into the crowd
@@phoenixcobean it was December 29th I’m pretty sure
@@Michiganvideoswithmyfriends. okay. This could be
Kurt didn't just buy inexpensive guitars because he liked them, it's because he was too broke to afford anything else.
and so am i😩😩
@Layabout fender literally shipped him free guitars for smashing. He never touched any of his mustangs or his priced Jaguar.
was he really broke? i don't think you have a single idea how much money a worldwide rock band makes buddy 😂 he was far from broke, he just never actually gave a fuck about money, mansions and expensive cars. he literally bought cheap stuff just to smash it. and i wouldn't have smashed expensive fender guitars too, even if i got them for free.
@@elcheffe3460 Thanks for telling me you know jack shit about the man. Kurt used the least popular guitars for a fucking reason; a mix of pride of not wanting to be looked as a guitar hero and quite literally the fact he couldn’t afford to. His first guitar and main guitar all the way to 1990 was the Univox Hi Flier guitar which he smashed on stage. Sometime later he got a Mexican Black strat with the famous white sticker and replaced it with a Jaguar which he switched the pickups to DiMarzios. He smashed the black strat in Paramount. His main acoustic was a cheap 20 dollar acoustic with a broken neck. He didn’t do any major switch aside from the cheap Mexican strats Fender gave him so he could smash on stage. During in utero tour, he got a couple of Mustangs and got his own signature Jagstang prototype by Fender. He in MTV unplugged talked about thinking of buying that famous acoustic guitar worth 800k. Let’s not even mention the fact how his guitar tech mentioned how happy Kurt was when he got his iconic Martin D18E. All the guitars destroyed on stage existed for the sole purpose of being destroyed, he beat his Jag here and there but never thought about destroying his priced guitars. People love to assume shit for no reason. He’s a punk guy, book definition of it. He didn’t like rules, didn’t like fame, didn’t like being predictable, hence why his mental state went to the dump after 93 since he lost his love for music due to all the fame and big gigs instead of small clubs.
@@randy0210 are you that fucking daft? it takes mere fuckin seconds to google how much money Nirvana fuckin made after Nevermind and they're still making a shit ton of money, because people still buy lots of their records, and you still say he was broke? sorry to tell you that, but you probably don't really know the definition of "broke". oh, and Fender sent him guitars to give themselves a nice ad, because he used them live and that made some big influence on people, so they definitely could sell more. you don't have to be a genius to understand that.
Did anyone else noticed how wrong the rhythm was for "Territorial Pissings"?
YES
Nope
All the rythums sounded horrible
Totally
It was almost shuffle-like lol
Kurt actually did use the DOD Grunge on some songs live during the In Utero tour. Check out the MTV Live and Loud performance. He used it on "School", you can hear the more compressed and treble heavy distortion on that song compared to others in the set.
I mean, you’re not wrong with the DS2 being used for the In Utero era, but he used it around 92. SansAmp’s mainly used for In Utero, the settings for the Small Clone’s also for Unplugged…
No you're wrong because Kurt Cobain had the boss ds-1 settings like this
Tone: 4-6
Dist: max
Level: max
And for come as you are on the Small clone he had to tone like this
Depth: on
Rate: 12 o'clock
Depth switch was down, but yes.
Kurt actually used the ds2 on the nevermind tour and the sansamp on in utero
Kurt switched to the DS2 for the Nevermind tour, not In Utero. He wanted more mids out of his tone, even though the DS1 was used on the actual album. The Utero tour was when he switched to the Sans Amp for most of the songs, but still used the DS2 as well.
Love the attitude and the sentiment! Punk is punk, no supposed to be refined or precise. It's the raw-ness that makes it awesome. IME getting Nirvana sound will vary most by which amp you use - it's great that you took the time to get the proper amounts of fuzz, delay and echo with these boxes so we can mess with our amp knobs to find the tones we like. Nirvana was awesome - good memorial on Kurt's birthday!
Kurt actually bought his Jaguar used and already modded with the humbuckers and the extra tone knob
Anode Gaming extra volume* knob
Happy Bday Kurt❤️🎸
Kurt’s “sound” was really powered by his Mesa Boogie preamp. Super gritty mid ranges
I think this goes to show you the value of how awesome the engineering, production etc on Nevermind was....
absolutely
Yup. It's so funny how the band hated having their sound cleaned up by the company because everyone loved Nevermind!
Nah. This guy just has a crappy guitar and doesn't know how to dial in the right tone.
@@joshuahauser9050 listen to in utero and you'll see what they wanted to do after nevermind, they just didn't liked that much the sound of nevermind, but it achieved what they were looking for (kinda), attract the mainstream audience to that underground scene with a more pop-sounding record
Not really. I have a Skystang 1 replica (from the In Utero tour and I built it myself of a squer guitar) and I come awfully close to the studio tone with my DS- and my small clone. It isn't for every song extremely close but for many it is close enough. The only thing that is missing for me to recreate it with my gear is to mix it properly. But every song on this vid wasn't played right (for example Territorial pissings was played with a small clone and a DS-1 or 2 on the recordings and hasn't had any mutes/breaks in the riff). It often comes down to how the pedals are set up (in this video they were always wrong) and how you play it. You can achieve the Nirvana sound of Kurt even with the standard power chord but then you really have to know how to play the riffs like Kurt did.
When he got all that feedback and smiles I thought he was going to play scoff because that feedback sounded just like the feedback in the studio version of that song then he disappointed all nirvana fans by playing smells like teen spirit.
Ok I’m glad I’m not the only one who was like “what the fuck is this guy doing to Nirvana”. The in bloom sounded like a ska riff.
I feel like they intentionally did a shitty job just to piss off the super fan gear guys. The amount of accurate information available in a two second Google search is too much to screw up a video this bad.
Exactly...
Boss ds2 wasn't used in the in utero tour, kurt used a samp instead, and boss ds2 was used in nevermind tour.
PROCO RAT, my favorite pedal for that slight overdriven amp tone, to it's fuzz distortion. So versatile
kurt is as simple as it gets. single coil + ds2 + small clone + boss chorus + plaid shirt
"Cheap pedals" boss distortion, ProCo Rat, Big muff
okay...
Are you joking? None of these are boutique or "premium" brands. Boss and EHX have always been known to make pedals at the lower end of the price range (while not being of toy quality) especially the old designs like the ones used in this video. Even drug addict homeless Cobain could get his hands on these.
The boss ones are less than 100$. That's not expensive at all when it comes to pedals.
@@lt-yx1hx Not when you live in Brazil 😂😂
ive seen the ds1 at like 20$
@@pavement3931 I got mine for 69 dollars
4:09 Now that feedback(noise) from "You Know You're Right" makes sense
It's called feedback
@@pabloconchetumare1753 Yes, thanks for the correction
Sorry mom? More like "sorry Kurt" dude!
Sorry mom!
Son you are grounded
Stephen Jackson Oh hamburgers
hahahaha
His mom must be a huge Nirvana fan for him to apologize. She probably removed all of his outlets after this blasphemous display.
If you love a band, their influence will be easy to hear in your music regardless of whatever gear you use
You can play a 7 string tuned 2 steps down then plug it into a Buzz Box, people will still be able to hear it.
I guess this is the only possible algorithmic outcome of me watching Kurt Cobain interviews and Andy demos literally all day today
This is awesome. You definitely need these gnarly-sounding fuzzes and distortions to play Nirvana. In a band I had we tried playing "In Bloom" with boutique overdrive pedals and it sounded way too tame. There is a time and place for overdrives, fuzzes and distortions.
I like how the gain on the big muff is set at 8 o clock and it still sounds like a wall of white noise.
Love the affordable aspect! A series out of this would be great
Cobain did not put humbuckers in his jag, he bought it like that, and later on someone discovered it was a guitar owned and modded by the guitar player of Cliff Richard. www.nme.com/news/music/nirvana-47-1236449
Btw, I have never heard anyone emulate the cobain sound convincingly. I think A LOT has to do with the heavy production of Nevermind. For instance, I always hear some kind of sublte chorus effect layer over the recording. Very very special sound.
Ah man.. i thought you were going to use them all at the same time then smash your guitar.
I got a digitech grunge (remake of the dod grunge) when I was younger because the owner of my local shop told me Kurt used one. It still sits on my board today.
How to sound like Black Flag
I love the wood pattern on that fingerboard!
Reverb: Anybody wanna do a video on Nirvana tone?
Guy who obviously never listened to nirvana, let alone know Kurt’s tone: Sure
who hurt you
Everybody hurts.
J.ustin case get A.tom Y.oung
If nirvana wasn't big, all these guitar hobbyists would think their tone was terrible
It is fairly ‘bad’ by most guitars standards. It only sounds amazing to teen beginners who have an undeveloped ear 😂. It’s muddy, fizzy, quite a lot of gain and ‘twangy’. Personally I like the darker and muddier tones, that’s just me.
The redeeming quality about it is the fact it’s unique and inspiring due to the gear and situation. I do think the sound helped shape the music and it was what Kurt liked so more power to him.
@@wastewoodrockers5526 I think his tone fit the songs, although he didn't invent the sound but it definitely sounds grunge
Every single song was played wrong in some variation, regarding either major pedal flaws or played incorrectly. Cmon reverb, Ultimate Guitar exists. Use the tabs
Man that grunge pedal was the best distortion pedal out of all of em. It sounded amazing. I was skeptical about that pedal. Holy cow
How to sound like extremely different from NIrvana spending 3 times more than kurt cobain in pedals. Epic fail "Come as you are".
Love the comments. So many people don't know Nirvana was one of the most over produced bands out there. All that "we don't care" shit was marketing. They had egos and effects tracks that would make Lady Gaga blush. Butch Vig I think put 100 dub tracks on fucking Teen Spirit alone.
100 dubs? I call bullshit on that straight away. The only bass I know of that use that many dubs would be the likes of Muse. You’re greatly exaggerating here.
I agree the ‘We don’t care’ ethos was a lot of marketing and corporate advertisement. But Nevermind really isn’t that over produced for today’s standards, yes at the time it was very heavily produced for a rock record but honestly it’s nothing compared to today.
Most of the 90s grunge bands and beyond used effects racks, not uncommon. Butch Vig produced the album and added all that extra ‘sheen’ if you will, Kurt wasn’t particularly a fan of the overproduced pop sound that ‘Nevermind’ had.
Just take a look at some of the production that goes into bands like Muse or Radiohead’s sound. Nevermind is not an overproduced record by today’s standards.
all great pedals ...i own them all , apart from that DOD one
Nobody cares.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video! Kurt was so simplistic yet so tasteful in his playing and craft.
He didn't dial any of the tones in, and he didn't use the right muff. He misplayed some of the riffs, and it was obviously very quickly put together with little effort.
11/10, very in the "teen spirit" of Nirvana. :P
On the Muff we all still aren't sure which one but it probably was a russian big muff (the green big muff)
This is exactly how a real Cobain Gear Rundown would go, goes to show people still wouldn't get Cobain's humor nowadays
When you played ‘come as you are’ it sounded like you were horribly tuning it
kurt didnt care that much about guitar tuning
Alright guys I know this isn’t what you nirvana fans expected but just give this man some credit for taking the time to make a video for UA-cam, at least he knows stuff.
What u mean? The "facts" weren't right. For example the DS-2 wasn't used really for In Utero. It was used for some Nevermind recordings and the whole Nevermind tour. In Utero had for the recordings the Sansamp and on tour too (except for Unplugged and for the SLTS pre-chorus where the DS-2 was used). Also the small clone wasn't a replacement for the echoflanger/polychorus. the echoflanger was used for the studio sessions for these weird sounds like in Radio freindly unit shifter and the small clone for the normal chorus stuff. Also the DOD Grunge pedal WAS used indeed. It wasn't used for long but in late november until early december 93 it was used by kurt and then thrown into the crowd (you can hear it for example on The man who sold the world - live and loud). And also Kurt's Jaguar actually already had those Humbuckers in it when Kurt bought it. These all are facts that you find like in 10 secs on google that I listed. It would have been good if he said, that he won't try to recreate the Nirvana vibe because he failed it. Most riffs weren't played right, the set up of the pedals wasn't right either and just too many false information.
Bruh the puns are too much🤣🤣
Are you saying they should have stayed...In Utero? Ugh. Nevermind...
Reverb go to hell
@@Starch1b2c3d4a You're literally a two string guitar with that name
Nice sounds and pedal. I like the DOD which gives the amount of feedback.
He did use the Grunge Pedal live in in December 93. It wasn't just on his board. You can heard that awful thing quite clearly on Live and Loud, especially The Man Who Sold the World. He never used the Turbo feature of the DS-2 and it the DS-2 was on his board during the Nevermind tour starting all the way back in September 91. Come on Reverb fact check.
I read that he only used the DoD Grunge pedal for that one show, then threw it into the crowd at the end because he didn't like it.
Listen to Reading 92. He definitely used the Turbo mode sometimes. Come on, Sandra. Fact check.
Awesome video! regards from Paraguay! Long live to Rock Music!
Is anyone else bothered by him playing the songs incorrectly lol?
There's a lot that goes into achieving a tone. On In Utero, Kurt played through a Fender Quad Reverb from the 1960s that used 4x12 Utah brand alnico speakers and old had rca preamp tubes. He played mostly a clean tone, I think and then used sans amp tech 21 with boss ds 2. Old alnico guitar speakers that were manufactured by Utah are actually super rare these days, most alnico speakers produced by Utah weren't meant for guitar, and they only worked with fender briefly after the jensen era. Getting a similar tone is costly and perhaps impossible for most people. Utah alnico guitar speakers are known for having a very unique sound. But after jensen and jbl, there's a big drop off in us produced alnico guitar speakers. Some are rarer than others of the 5 or 6 or so companies who actually made dedicated alnico guitar speakers in the 1950s and 1960s.
Basically anything that has distortion can do nirvana tone.
You just need to tweak it randomly. XD
not funny, didnt laugh
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Get the digitech grunge and you're good! I know many people don't really like it, but I loved it ever since!
Lithium was perfect
I don’t know why, maybe it’s because I’m just getting into nirvana, (I know) or maybe it’s the guitarist part of me, but I can’t stop wathcing this video! I love it!
2:22 Ouch!
Tune your guitar!!!
I think it's just the chorus vibrato
Thats the distorter you hear am i wrong
grunge music is all about sounding like shit, why tune your guitar? its useless.
Dave Grohl's Right Elbow It’s a whole step down
i’ve got a ds2, big muff, and small clone, and those really tend to be absolutely amazing for nirvana type stuff. i am very thankful that my family supports my instrumental hobbies.
edit 8-17-22 - had to sell the big muff. board fried. it was a printed one so we couldn’t fix it.
edit 9-8-22 - for my recent birthday, I have gotten what I'm pretty sure is called a 'silver label' ds1, for half price, being around $80. I know the person I got it from, and he was very nice to let me get it for half off.
silver label just means new, or not the one kurt had. they started making them after he died
@@jaxcyl1-t4b thanks
That was my first pedal too! I was around 12 yrs old when I started
I don't know why the complaints? It gave me insight on how to use those pedals. Thanks.
The pedals weren't set up like they should have been when making a video about Nirvana. They should have been set up like Kurt's where (the settings are easy to find on the web) and also the facts weren't right. For example the DS-2 was NOT Kurt's main pedal for In Utero. It was his main Pedal for the Nevermind tour. In Utero had the sansamp. The complaints are that for a video about Nirvana, you don't really get the right pedal settings for a Nirvana tone, wrong facts that easily are proven with one google search and the riffs were played completely wrong. And if you are a big company like reverb, you should get atleast the settings of the pedals and the facts right
I bought a Ds-1 distortion pedal one time and it sounded like absolute shit so I bought the Ds-2 and now I feel like I have quality sound.
Yeah I didn’t realize the Ds-1 was redone and made different at the time
The DS-1 can sound good if you know how to make it sounds good.
The last one bring me to tears...
a bit buzzy frets!
It's a feature
Sam White it's a squier you get what you pay for
Lord Fupa Squiers still have a fucking truss rod and adjustable saddles. It being a Squier is NOT an excuse at all!
Wesley Zimmerman I'm not saying it's an excuse my dood but with squiers quality control is sometimes not as good as it should be. That comes with the territory of it being a budget guitar
I literally have that guitar, and for Nirvana things, it's a great companion
Fret Buzz = punk
If you’re making a video analyzing how to sound like Kurt, you’re already overthinking it. What made Kurt sound like Kurt was the simplicity of his tone.
I have a boss ds1 amazing pedal for the price
Agreed
50$
It is. But I'd rather pay 30$ more for a new DS-2 or find a used DS-2 for 50-70$. DS-2 is better of the two.
What year is yours?
@@Kurmudgeon idk, 2017 maybe
that fretbuzz is legendary!! :D
Everybody knows Kurt used the KOT and a Klon for his tonez.
Nirvana Is a good band. My favourite song is Territorial Pissings and it was Absolutely fire. The mixture of Grunge and Punk Rock!!!