Recreate that tone: Nirvana - About a Girl 

When I started playing it, it scared me too 😂

Hey guys Kurt is alive. He is this man😅

Baldski and nirvana my life is complete!!!

And I thought I was listening to a drum track

We're all scared.

Nice profile pic man

I noticed that!! So cool

Hey man, not saying that's not true or anything but is there any verifiable source out there to support it? In all the Jack Endino interviews I've watched and read he says Kurt used the Hi-Flier and a mustang for the in utero demos with him but not bleach. I have a mustang and I'm definitely down to use it for bleach (I usually test all my guitars on each song any way and use what sounds closest) but usually when I do this I find everything I read on the internet to not be true at all. Even for "you know you're right" Robert plant said the intro sound is steel drums Kurt used in the studio which is absolutely hilarious because its clearly the bridge on the Hi-Flier 😂 I think there's more misinformation surrounding Nirvana than any other band on earth.

@@AaronRash to see the Mustang I'm talking about you have to see the cover of Bleach and it's not a univox it's a Mustang

@@d.a558 I’ve seen that mustang as well as read about it, but that’s just a photo Tracy Marander took during a show. That’s not the studio sessions. Is there any source stating that mustang was used to record bleach? Jack Endino consistently says it was a hi flier for the entire album in every interview I’ve watched and read.

@@AaronRash there is a video in which the Mustang that I say appears and it is from the year 1988 so 90% if it was used in the recordings of Bleach

@@d.a558 Yes Kurt had a Mustang in 1988 and also several Hi-Fliers at the same time. Just because he played a mustang live doesn't mean he used it to record bleach. Like I said, is there anywhere stating that to verify he recorded bleach with it? If not, it's just a random guess... Check this out: www.mopop.org/about-mopop/the-mopop-blog/posts/2019/december/nirvana-univox-guitar/

Thanks! Its on the list!

cool

I agree with this. The tone is all in the pickup and the DS1. Oh and Kurt's playing of course

Thants pretty cool! is it super lightweight too?

@@AaronRash It is actually slightly heftier than a high flyer we had a phase 3 at the music store I used to work at, the guy who brought it in said it was owned by Kurt and he had it authenticated… that thing weighed nothing🤣🤣🤣🤣

Thanks! I will at some point release an IR pack when I have a collection of all the perfect sounding speakers

Leeds show 1990 ❤

Do you mean at the end? Its D7 a wipers cover.

I’ve watched all his videos. I don’t agree with his testing methods though. He just plucks a string and let’s it ring out. Things start happening when you actually play chords - different modal frequencies react with each other that’s coupled to the body. Plus most of his test are using new strings. You can’t hear a guitars tone with new strings - instead you’re just hearing a ton of metallic harmonics which makes it impossible to hear tone. If Jim’s theory is true, all electric guitars would sound the same, which is obviously not true. I’ve had a ton of mustangs with the same pickups same hardware and they all sound very different to one another, even unplugged. I actually demonstrated that in my butterfly effect video. Of course all this is just my opinion from my own experience. I wish bodies didn’t affect tone. I would save a lot of money!

@@AaronRash I'll take your word for it only because I've been trying to get Kurt Cobain's tone and then improve it for years and haven't been able to do it. This is in spite of being able to play almost all his songs and having his Jaguar and Mustang, plus a Fender Twin and a Mesa Boogie Studio Preamp and 295, lol. You're really the only person who's pretty much nailed it that I know of. Although, I have gotten a tone I really like, that's close, although I never heard them live, and it cost a fortune. It's splitting the clean chorus from an spx90 (this is the chorus Krist used on Nevermind) into a Marantz 8b (you can use a much cheaper tube power amp with almost the same results here) into a pair of JBL L100 century studio monitors (expensive, but worth the money) and playing the distortion through the Mesa Boogie then a DS-2 after the preamp, then into a Mesa power amp, into the Fender Twin cab. I hated the Fender Twin at first, but it sounds great with the Mesa Boogie as a head. The clean channel only makes like a 5% improvement, but it's enough to get it to the point where changes sound like differences, instead of improvements. You can listen on my channel's most recent video. Do you use a sub with your NS-10s?

Thanks! yes I will hopefully soon

@@AaronRash this is the greatest news I have ever heard in my life

The capo is just because I didn't feel like tuning my guitar up a half a step to standard tuning lol. Bleach was done in standard tuning.

Aaron's using capo probably because he's tuned a full step down for some nirvana songs, and About a girl is in standard tuning.

@@guest08278 that makes sense

The early phase 1 hi fliers had the P90 style ones and then phase 2 had the humbuckers. Kurt recorded bleach with a phase 2. I've got a phase 1. I've never heard of the spark, ill check it out!

Fore sure, I've seen some comparisons, but the problem is the Eastwood pickups were on their newer reissue hi flier. The older ones sound completely different to me but I think it's more to do with the guitar than the pickup, but just my opinion!

@@AaronRash some luthiers says that the affect less that we think y the electric guitars bodyes. The Wood affects in the resonance of the neck between maple and rosewood. Other aspect that change the tone is the hardware and electronics. This is what they say. I really don't know. Check out this video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n02tImce3AE.html He is going removing guitars parts to see where tone comes from in eléctric guitar. I think this video deserve to see and think about it.

@@noobymoosehead ohhhh , do you think it would be able to fit in the newer dm 206 versions?

Yep I just chopped up some old credit cards and mounted it to that on the pickup ring, then painted it black.

Mines brand new. I got it about a year ago when I started playing guitar. Where ever the 2021 ones are made this would be it. I don't have it in front of me right now but I'll let you know! For what its worth I don't think the old vs new sound any different.

@@AaronRash thanks for the reply! I also have a 2021 year DS1. It was made in Malaysia.

noted!