Foo Fighters tones questions

[the guy who invented fire]

There are 2 sounds of the first Foo album that I can't find. The bright rattley sound at the start of watershed, and that crazy fuzzy/buzzy tone in exausted...I know for a fact that Dave only had 2 guitars (A LP, and An SG), 2 amps(A JCM 900 50 watt with 4x12, and a Marshall MS-2 micro stack), and 2 pedals (a Rat and a Turbo Rat) when he made this record...Anybody have a clue how he did this...

If not, please don't bash me for digging the Foo...

Thanks
The guy who invented fire

 

[muttonchopsrule]

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i don't know what he did to get that tone, but all i know is that if someone is bashing the foo, they'll have to talk to me

 

[some_dude]

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I thought Dave used a Vox AC30 and a Rat on that album. I've never heard of him using a Marshall anything...

For the fuzz sound, have you tried using your neck pickup while you tweek the Rat?

Could the sound be something Chris is playing?


(I don't have the album here to listen to right now, so I'm doing some guess work from memory)

 

[the guy who invented fire]

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The songs Im talking about are on the firts recodr...that whole record is Dave...guitar, bass, drums, vocals...all of it except 1 guitar part...chris didn't join till the tour for nothing left to lose. Dave didn't get a vox until the tour for The Colour and the Shape...AC-30 tones showed up on Nothing left to lose. It's well known that the equipment mentioned in my first post is all Dave had when he made that record...in fact he had to borrow a bass to do the bass parts. Thew first time I saw the Foo Fighters Dave had the LP and the SG I mentioned earlier as well as a black Explorer, and he indeed used a Marshall JCM 900 head and a Pro Co Rat, Pat used a white SG and a White Falcon, and even played through the "rack" rig that he used on the InUtero tour with Nirvana.

 

[Curly]

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did you try guitargeeks?

 

[Metalman_666]

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guitargeek is so outdated.. some rigs are years old, and they're not always right. PLUS they don't have some artists listed.

 

[some_dude]

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did you try guitargeeks?

I did, that's where I pulled the info about the AC30 off of. No one knew much about his original rig.

 

[GuitarGuy503]

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I thought Grohl used "Godin Guitars"?

 

[That90'sGuy]

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I know now that his main setup consists of his Kent Armstrong guitars (says he loves the pickup for rock) and his main explorer through a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier, that could have changed though.

I love his tone on Colour and the Shape, although I am surprised it was a Vox.

Dave rules! I think the Probot project he did was very cool too.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

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His "original rig" is the one I mentioned above. As for "The Colour and the Shape" Clean sounds were a Vox AC-30, a Twin Reverb, a Kustom, and a Mesa Heart Breaker, crunch tones were a Dual Recto, The before mentiones JCM 900, and quite a bit of RAT. The AC-30's played a much larger role on "There is Nothinh Left to Lose" As for Guitars, Dave was a Gibson man for a long time...Several Les Pauls (mostly Customs), Lots of SG's(also mostly Customs), a few Explorers, A Trini Lopez, an RD Artiste, and sometimes a 335. One nothing left to lose came a Telecaster, and a Duo Jet W/ bigsby. For ONE by ONE, he used a Dan Armstrong plexi guitar(with a Kent Armstrong pup) that was a gift form Rick Nielson, for the tour Dave bought several more, and the last time I saw them he had 4 or 5 of them with different tunings, and used them almost the entire show.

 

[some_dude]

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He uses a Mesa Road King now. Last I heard he stopped using the AC30 durring this last tour.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

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He never toured with the AC-30...since the release of TCATS, he has toured with Mesa gear almost 100% of the time.

 

[Rich_T]

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the messed up dying guitar sound in exhausted could well be dave running the guitar into a fuzz pedal then straight into the desk. that would give a cool lo-fi buzzy sound. but dial out loads of mid and bass on the amp and you should get close.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

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Kyuss_Rock, THANK YOU, That is what I thought :dance: , and just wanted someone to back me up, w/o knowing what I was thinking!!! Plugging direct in to the recordin desk has been done a few times over time with similar results...I just wanted some feedback...

 

[Rich_T]

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yeah thats probably what it is i reckon.

 

[Dills]

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Dosent dave use a weird looking see through guitar? it makes it look like its invisible, ive seen him use it on all their video clips (recent ones)

 

[the guy who invented fire]

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The clear guitar is a Dan Armstrong reissue...Dave has several

 

[Nightburst]

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I love that first album! Awesome guitar tones.