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GuitarInferred45
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nirvana
Tone Snapshot
Pickup: Seymour Duncan JB bridge humbuckerTone profile
Gain
Tightness
Brightness
Mid Scoop
Ambience
What makes this tone
- Clean
- Bright Attack
- Chorus
Signal chain
- Guitar: Early-1990s Japanese Fender Stratocaster
- Pickup: Seymour Duncan JB bridge humbucker
- Amp: Mesa/Boogie Studio preamp into Crown Power Base 2
- Effects: Boss DS-1
Tone Character
Recorded tone character
Gain character
Raw pedal-driven distortion with a hard, grainy attack; the amp itself is kept comparatively clean.
Bass
Relatively lean for definition.
Mids
Strong and forward, especially through the Mesa rhythm channel and mix EQ.
Treble
Bright enough to cut, but the tone is not thin.
Brightness / presence
Immediate and edgy rather than polished.
Compression
Moderate pedal/recording compression; the distorted tracks are layered for width.
Effects
Boss DS-1 supplies the dirty sound; Electro-Harmonix Small Clone chorus is used on the clean/pre-chorus textures and solo.
Evidence / Sources
Tone character: raw, gritty, mid-forward, punchy, explosive, bright attack, wide when layered, dry
This is one of the strongest song-specific rigs in the batch: Guitar World publishes the guitar, amp chain, DS-1/Small Clone and Mesa settings. The canonical six values intentionally describe the source tone rather than inventing controls the rig did not have.
Effects
Boss DS-1 supplies the dirty sound; Electro-Harmonix Small Clone chorus is used on the clean/pre-chorus textures and solo.
Original Gear
Guitar
Early-1990s Japanese Fender Stratocaster
Amp
Mesa/Boogie Studio preamp into Crown Power Base 2 and Marshall 1960B 4x12 cabinets
Channel
Mesa/Boogie Studio Rhythm channel
distortion switched with Boss DS-1
Pickup
Seymour Duncan JB bridge humbucker
