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GuitarBest guess25
Come As You Are
Nirvana
Tone Snapshot
Pickup: Likely clean single-coil/humbucker selectionTone profile
Gain
Tightness
Brightness
Mid Scoop
Ambience
What makes this tone
- Clean
- Chorus
Signal chain
- Guitar: Likely Kurt Cobain Nevermind-era offset/Strat guitar pool
- Pickup: Likely clean single-coil/humbucker selection
- Amp: Likely Nevermind sessions
- Effects: Electro-Harmonix Small Clone chorus
Tone Character
Recorded tone character
Gain character
Mostly clean, dark-edged and slightly grainy.
Bass
Warm and rounded.
Mids
Present and moody.
Treble
Controlled to keep the chorus from sounding brittle.
Brightness / presence
Soft and subdued.
Compression
Moderate and smooth.
Effects
Electro-Harmonix Small Clone chorus is the defining effect; heavier sections may add distortion, but the signature riff is the watery clean chorus sound.
Evidence / Sources
Tone character: watery, chorused, dark, hypnotic, warm, moody, clean-edge, modulated
Butch Vig explicitly identifies the Small Clone as creating the watery guitar sound on Come As You Are. He also names the Mesa/Boogie, Fender Bassman and Vox AC30 used on Nevermind, but does not assign one exact amp/guitar to this riff, so the seed leaves those identities open.
Effects
Electro-Harmonix Small Clone chorus is the defining effect; heavier sections may add distortion, but the signature riff is the watery clean chorus sound.
Original Gear
Guitar
Likely Kurt Cobain Nevermind-era offset/Strat guitar pool
Amp
Likely Nevermind sessions
Channel
Clean-to-edge-of-breakup amp reference
Pickup
Likely clean single-coil/humbucker selection
