Queens of the Stone Age fuzz

[JB_From_Hell]

I know, Josh Homme uses a super secret rig, with all sorts of trickery and whatnot.

Now that it's been said, who's found a fuzz pedal that will get *close*?

 

[PFDarkside]

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The only thing I can find by searching is the Fulltone Ultimate Octave with the octave off. I wonder how an Analogman Peppermint Fuzz would sound? It's a little grungier than a fuzz face.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

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Interesting about the Fulltone, as I've heard more than a few rumors that he has one of those.

 

[LunaticFringe]

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Sweet, another forum member who's into QOTSA. Josh's tone is awesome. I have the Ultimate Octave and it does alot of their stuff quite nicely. On alot of their newer stuff there are some certain parts where the fuzz sounds so dirty and nasty that I think he's probably using a germanium fuzz like the fulltone '70 or the sunlion. The fulltone doesn't get that truly nasty spitting sound but it does some of the stuff a notch down from that.

 

[drew_half_empty]

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i usually just kill my treble & tone knob when i'm goin for his sounds

but the ultimate octave definately does his sound well

 

[Empty Pockets]

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the Ampeg V4 is the main ingredient in his tone. That and the neck humbucker with the tone knob on 0. His solo tone on 'Songs for the Deaf' blows my mind.

 

[LoFiBrian]

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with my hamer and my double muff into my galaxie ten with the tone knob rolled back I swear I get real close...

 

[JB_From_Hell]

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The tone on the "Over the Years and Through the Woods" dvd is just spectacular, all the way through. The one song in particular that made me go, "Wow, this sounds great" is the album version of Little Sister, particularly the lead tone.

 

[LunaticFringe]

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I love the tone on God Is On The Radio, especially the solo.

 

[LoFiBrian]

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I dig the tones even on the S/T record...

namely Regular John and Mexicola oh and You Would Know too

 

[LunaticFringe]

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Yeah it's good all around. Rated R is definitely where they hit their mark.

 

[Closed Eye]

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i usually just kill my treble & tone knob when i'm goin for his sounds

but the ultimate octave definately does his sound well

Same here, I turn the tone down to about 3, stick it on the neck pickup, and rock out.

Rated R is easily their best album but I'm digging the post-Olivari sound on LTP and Era Vulgaris quite a bit more. To tell the truth, Songs for the Deaf is the album I listen to the least...

 

[ratherdashing]

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The tone on the "Over the Years and Through the Woods" dvd is just spectacular, all the way through. The one song in particular that made me go, "Wow, this sounds great" is the album version of Little Sister, particularly the lead tone.

He definitely has some sort of octave effect going in that song.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

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He definitely has some sort of octave effect going in that song.

I'm thinking that it probably is that Ultimate Octave, at least on the lead part.

 

[Hebjam]

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Check Youtube, there's a vid of him at home playing through this STRANGE thing.Like a metel plate laying on the floor. I dont even see a speaker on it. I think it radiates sound! I think thats his secret... **** i love the new album.

 

[LunaticFringe]

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I think a large part of his tone may be from the combination of his low treble tone and the ultimate octave's pronounced high end, which I find can very easily get to be too shrill. The octave effect in particular is especially high pitched and nasty no matter how you play it, and the instructions I got with it specifically told me that to use the octave effect I had to turn the tone knob on the pedal ALL the way down. I find the tone knob is useless past the halfway mark even when using it with just the fuzz, as it becomes so insanely trebley. Maybe he is turning his tone on his guitar down and the treble on his amp down, and dialing in high end with the pedal to get that unique sound. I'm going to experiment a bit with that.

 

[Guest]

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Just showing the love for QOTSA.

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