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GuitarInferred6
Mayonaise
The Smashing Pumpkins
Tone Snapshot
Pickup: Likely Lace Sensor pickupsTone profile
Gain
Tightness
Brightness
Mid Scoop
Ambience
What makes this tone
- High Gain
- Full Low End
- Smooth Top End
- Chorus
Signal chain
- Guitar: '57-reissue Fender Stratocaster/Lace Sensor layers
- Pickup: Likely Lace Sensor pickups
- Amp: Soul Head / Marshall cabinet
- Effects: Silverface Big Muff-era fuzz
Tone Character
Recorded tone character
Gain character
Dense, blooming fuzz/distortion with a soft but huge wall-of-guitars attack.
Bass
Full and broad.
Mids
Balanced, preventing the layered fuzz from disappearing.
Treble
Slightly restrained to keep the wall of sound smooth.
Brightness / presence
Moderate, with texture favored over sharpness.
Compression
Heavy fuzz and multi-layer studio compression.
Effects
Silverface Big Muff-era fuzz is central; the famous chorus feedback texture came from Corgan's inexpensive pawnshop 'Mayonnaise Guitar'.
Evidence / Sources
Tone character: fuzzy, blooming, layered, huge, smooth-edged, feedback-rich, alternative-rock
Targets the main distorted/rhythm body while noting that the signature feedback passage used a separate cheap pawnshop guitar. Siamese Dream involved layered parts rather than one universal instrument.
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Effects
Silverface Big Muff-era fuzz is central; the famous chorus feedback texture came from Corgan's inexpensive pawnshop 'Mayonnaise Guitar'.
Original Gear
Guitar
Siamese Dream layered guitar reference: '57-reissue Fender Stratocaster/Lace Sensor layers plus the inexpensive pawnshop 'Mayonnaise Guitar' used for the famous feedback texture
Amp
Siamese Dream recording rig centered on a Soul Head / Marshall cabinet architecture
Channel
Likely Fuzz-driven distorted
Pickup
Lace Sensor pickups on the Strat layers
pickup in the pawnshop feedback guitar is not securely documented
