Kurt muted the B's in G major chords, rather than playing them. I much prefer how it sounds that way. The B's always sound a little out of tune...cus they ARE.
Hey bro! I’m a mostly hip hop and classic rock guy but I’m 37 and grew up threw the grunge era. I had my Grandmom buy me never mind from a cd store called the wall in 1993. It changed my life. I heavily listened to nirvana, soundgarden, weezer and stone temple pilots. Later on I got into Alice In Chains. Anyway I just wanted to say good stuff man I appreciate your love for grunge. It was a huge influence on life back then and your killing it man. Big support from Delaware
People don't always see it, but I think Bleach is Nirvana's best and certainly most consistent album - which is odd when you see that it came together from three different sessions. Also their heaviest album, which makes you wonder about where they might have gone after this.
Fun fact about the ds2. It's mode one, while very similar to the DS1, is actually a little bit darker and has a decent bit more output. I personally think it sounds better.
And it sounds very different, a lot more mids, while the ds1 is more mid scooped. Also the ds1 doesnt like high output humbuckers, thats why it sounded like it was overheating and saturating on the entry level with kurts hotrails ans superdistortion PU. The ds2 take them much better.
Awesome job buddy, they all sound like the originals, especially paper cuts. I’ve been a fan since the beginning and Kurt is why I started playing guitar. Nirvana is alive and well
Amazing vid, you nailed it. Bleach is my fav Nirvana record and you have demonstrated how amazing the riffs are. How he did this all at such a young age I cant fathom
This is really close, but you can absolutely hear that "direct out" sound. If this was mic'd up live it would sound incredible. People don't realize how rocking these Fender amps can be.
Do you have any advice on Marshall amp settings (just bass and treble) as my ds2 settings with it set correctly are still a little off sound wise to the bands. I’m on a fender Stratocaster
@@60zeller Ehhh, not really. You have to do EQ shenanigans to make it really have that same sound. I get a pretty close sound because my amp is fender-ish. I played a tonemaster twin reverb today at a guitar store, went home and played the same guitar on my amp and, yeah, theres still a pretty noticeable difference. Its not just the pedals.
This sent chills down my spine, took me back to my junior year in high school (circa 1997/1998). Nirvana is entirely responsible for making me want to pick up the guitar some 24 years ago. I remember in summer of 1998 as a bored 17 year old trying to learn the songs from Bleach by ear on my early 80’s shitty Seville acoustic, which was my first guitar. Can’t believe it’s been that long already! Good memories. 😀 fun useless facts: I’m even a lefty myself. Also, I even had a Boss DS-1 pedal around 2002 or so, to try to recreate the guitar tones of some very early 80’s punk bands. Until today, I had no idea this same pedal was used on the Bleach album.
@@NirvanaGuitars HAHAHA🤣 First off I ran away from home to see this show! (NO SHIT) A good story I got kicked out for rushing the stage during the Breeders (I had seat tickets and jumped over a stairwell than was accosted an thrown out)😂😂😂 I lost one Purple Doc Martin shoe and suffered a ripped flannel shirt! I went back to the ticket booth where this old man working the booth old man gave me a floor ticket! I got back in the pit immediately saw my best friend (happy as school girls) but a little hard to mosh with one shoe! But saw most of the concert! Dallas TX 93 Starz Hockey Arena. There was so many crazy moments from the band like Krist saying Dorothy Hamill on Ice when we started ripping up the plywood covering up the ice rink. Earlier Kurt threatening to stop the show if he saw any woman get groped or grabbed and we would get 2 hours of feedback! The lights where bright and they did an electric then an acoustic set I don't remember every song they played I was just sooooo exited to be there! Dave and Krist signed autographs which I got but Kurt wearing a large cowboy hat appeared sad and didn't
Wonderfully done. Nirvana was my band through my teenage years and it makes me happy to see younger people still playing their stuff. The tone was spot on.
30 years as a musician. Everything started with these riffs... Bleach is a beasty album. As raw as rock could / should be ! And the way you give tribute to it is absolutely flawless. Congrats and thanks !
Really cool. Thanks for for this. I listened to Nirvana way back in the mid 90s during High school. I was introduced to Nevermind, and immediately discovered everything else afterward. I found a tab book for in utero in a local music store and used my lunch money to buy it, and learned the album start to end. I haven’t listened to Nirvana for sometime, but this video got me back into it. Thanks.
Sounds great. Came across your video when I was looking for stuff on Univox guitars. I got a natural phase 4 years ago and haven't played it in ages, but I had a great time plugging it in tonight
DS-2 mode 1 has similar tone to DS-1, that's why u listened same result.. many people say the rough distortion from DS-1 reminded them to ProCo Rat pedal
The little chord progression after the solo on About a Girl, I found when you play the f sharp, it sounds better if you hit the open b and high e too. Great tone!
Dude! You absolutely NAILED About A Girl and School. If I had to tell the difference between your cover of school and the original, I wouldn’t be able to.
Great job. Your tone is very accurate yet a little cleaner than the album. This sounds even better than the album. It’s my only gripe with bleach, it’s a little too muddy to enjoy the riffs that you have successfully drawn out. Had Bleach been better produced like Nevermind it would have sounded like this. Congrats.
Only I get chill on pre-chorus of Paper Cuts? The verse is just like heater, but this pause, and arpeggio on pre-chorus defuse everything. So atmospheric song...
@@NirvanaGuitars that's strings scratches and feedback builds a way to this relax pre chorus. I think, this happens because these sounds of scratches and so so makes our head hear every time different things, but in the next part of the song we hear one cool riff. this is point when our brain can accustom to only one sound shape, and our brain don't need anymore to look the ground to "understand" Everything that happening
@@NirvanaGuitars unfortunately, I'm 15, and I'm from Russia... No one gives a shit about me, especially, according to war(I hate it). Anyway, I almost wrote a half-conteptual album:) maybe, you will hear me once day)
You nailed the tone of it imo. Tones on albums come out cleaner (I hope that doesn't come across as bad )but live I'm sure this was it. Paper cuts, Mr mustache, scoff, negative creep couldn't be closer imo. I forget blew is in C
Enjoying your videos way too much mate. You are quite guilty of reactivating my desire to pick up the guitar. Thanks for all the research and passion, keep it up! 🎸
Awesome video man! These songs will never leave me from first discovering music and knowing Nirvana was always going to be my favorite band of all time. I enjoy doom and thrash metal a lot now and attribute that to listening to Bleach. Your equipment is awesome too great video 🤘
Great video! Love the sound and how you showed the settings. I can remember exactly where I was when I first heard Negative Creep and I've loved it ever since but I never thought about how much action there is in the playing of it. I never saw Nirvana live but I can imagine it must be hard to play and sing at the same time.
As far as I know, at that point Kurt used a Boss DS-1 the DS-2 was used until the recording of the nevermind record, along with other effects of course
Ds-2 didn't show up until in utero era from what I understand after his japanese made ds-1 broke, original ds-1 sounds a bit better due to the parts that were used back then. I've played both and can confirm this.
@@agentofkariosd1116 you have to look in the ds-2 if is made in japan or taiwan, the olders one is made in japan, have a better sound. I have a DS-1 and a DS-2 made in japan, i can get the same tone with ds1 or ds2.
@@Mateus.Sanches I had meant Japanese ds-1s sound better than taiwanese. I've never played a Japanese ds-2 but I like my og ds-1 better than the newer ds2s. Might have to pick one up now.
After watching this like weekly since it released i'm finally installing a phase 4 humbucker in the bridge of my original phase 1 hi flier, love the vid
Paper cuts... The Nirvana's heaviest ever song... 🔥🔥🔥 I think it is the most outstanding album for Kurt. There are some great guitar skills that you won't hear on the other albums.
Those eastwood gs are so close, the fender had no speakers kurt brought a 2x12 with celestions in and its those speakers that really push Kurt's tone , nice job bro keep up the content
This is a pretty dope channel, this the first time i see it. Nice job in this video. The Bleach songs are some of the best. Basically all you need to sound like Kurt in a nutshell is a Boss distortion, a chrous pedal, and a Fender guitar. You can play any Nirvana song with just those things lol. You played a lot of the riffs here pretty well but you were a little stiff on most of them. You gotta loosen up a bit and then it will sound completely accurate. Nice work!
I needed this video so much, bleach is probably my second favorite album after incesticide, maybe it heps the fact that it was the first one I heard. Thank you so much for this video, I hope to see more like this
So weird. I just pulled this CD out yesterday. Never looked up anything or commented on it except to my daughter in person while driving her home from school. And today your video is recommended by the RU-vid algorithm. Your tone matching is pretty dead-on in my opinion. It was very fresh in my mind today too. Might have to find me one of those Boss DS pedals and look up his tunings for this album.
You pretty much nailed it! Only tones I don't like are when you have the treble up at 10, it does something that just destroys the tone. Whether that's just the cab sim, I dunno. At first I thought it was the DS-2 but you'd used the same settings in two songs back to back, but the amp's treble was at 10 on one and lower on the next, so it's gotta be that.
A few years back I had a Fender Mustang amp, then a Champion. Both digital, and while on their own they sounded really good, whenever I threw pedals in front of them, I really couldn't dial in anything to my liking. As I couldn't afford a tube amp, just switched to a solid state Frontman, which has no issues with pedals. I assume things have progressed in the last five years, but it seems they still kinda dislike pedals on certain settings.
It’s interesting how Nirvana’s first record was their most technical guitar wise, you can tell Kurt was way more open to showing off his classic rock and metal inspirations with the songs he wrote during the Bleach era. It’s like a Deftones Adrenaline situation where the guitar work is way more involved on that first album
Love the ds2 also more than the ds1 my friend lent me, I use a big muff pi as my no.1 noise maker as it has a warm sound with killer sustain boss can't do.
