your passion and dedication of how far you`re going to achieve this one specific interest of music is fascinating to me. I´m glad, but also a bit nostalgic about the fact that the journey of the In Utero sound is almost over. I´ve been following your progress for over a year now and hope to see more of your content. Maybe you´ll uncover even more unknown album sounds in the future!
If you listen to Pat's and Kurts live tones they basically recreate this. Its a pretty common thing for recording. One really bassy tone then another brighter tone. Double track both of them and pan and it'll sound huge. Pat seems to have a darker tone on the live Nirvana shows then kurt has his usual brighter tone.
Got chills, sounds unreal, I've heard these sounds for so long that hearing it replicated like this so flawlessly is absolutely surreal, I learn something new from each video you release, I didn't realise the DS2 and Sansamp were both used at the same time to get that tone. In Utero's sound just never gets old to me. It's been a while since you've started this tone chasing journey and honestly not only did your tone evolve but so did your presentation of your videos, community etc. I find it kinda hard to believe we've already reached this stage where it seems like we've already figured out everything we need to replicate that tone. It's been 30 years since February 1993, 30 years since the release of In Utero and 30 years to finally be able to achieve that sound again. Everything fell into place. The future is already looking pretty great!
Amazing, as always. You're actually the reason why I came back to Nirvana after not listening to them in years. Thanks man, you're really doing a great job with those videos!
Holy shit when you started playing I Hate Myself and Want to Die I thought it was the original track. That is *ridiculously* accurate PS: now get yourself a Gibson Ripper and replicate the Nevermind and In Utero bass tones
I've only ever seen one musician play a Quad Reverb live...Albert 'Iceman' Collins, a Houston bluesman and an innovator and amazing guitarist...the fact that Steve and Kurt somehow settled on the Quad Reverb - a beast of an amp - makes me smile
this is the best nirvana tone recreation I've ever heard its perfect. If only I had a quad reverb 😂😂 Edit: when are you going to put your store up?! I am really wanting to get that square wave and engine pedal!!
He puts ridiculously huge effort into these, like I think he has no competition in this field. After seeing his videos I look back at other older tone recreation videos and they're no match. And I'm not even in my nirvana phase anymore haha
It comes back around. I recommend making a playlist of the Nirvana songs that make you happy. The dark arts and the grotesque are tough themes on your psyche.
I think it would be interesting if you used a cherry red color on the Mosrite, it would be somewhat different from the other colors like black, sunburst, white and so on. Great video as always Aaron! Looking forward to the next ones!
Aaron is the man, . My bandmate who is basically as old as my dad I have a 72 TWIN reverb. A DS1 and 2. A 74 hi flier phase 3. But I never had the Sans Amp. I didn't realize how essential that was to the tone. I bought one. We hooked it up according to Aarons diagram. And BOOM, it started hissing and feeding back exactly the same. Awesome. I live less then an hour from Pachyderm and I've been there a few times. Ive wondered about the mics? But, in a room on its own the setup seems to be100% correct. Aaron nailed it. Awesome! Thank you.
Aaron. Major props on all the work you’re doing. You’ve changed my opinion on tone shaping and what’s actually important in nailing iconic tones. Also, looking forward to the production run of the aluminum guitars. I’m a lefty and a Kurt fan, so I’m really looking forward to picking one of them up. Thanks for the great content.
You're right, sometimes, the chase is better than the catch. But, you sir,have nailed it. You have harnessed the powers that be. Congratulations. Looking forward to a rundown of some of the songs. I bet Francis Farmer would sound awesome through you set-up!! Thank you for showing us the way!!
Two fun ideas for the Mosrite finish: 1. Pool burst - paint the guitar to look like swirling water of the pool on the Nevermind album cover / Come As You Are video. 2. Kurt's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" shirt - paint the guitar black with green stripes and grey accents - just like Kurt's shirt from the video.
type o negative, green day, mud honey, soundgarden, guns n' roses, alice in chains, the offspring, the cure, pearl jam, stone temple pilots, red hot chile peppers, sonic youth, NIN, etc...man the 90's had the greatest music...
Dammit Aaron. Dammit dammit dammit. I just had to find this channel. Now you're gonna have me going down this rabbit hole, bro. 🤣🙏 'Come As You Are' is the first riff I learned that was more than just a 1 string riff like 'Satisfaction'. I had to break it into 2 parts and then learn them together. It was at THAT MOMENT that I knew I could really teach myself to play. And I did! That was Dec 2019/Jan 2020, before everybody decided to play guitar during the pandemic. It's clear to me now that Ive always been a guitar player. It just took me 30 years to buy a guitar that was better than the nylon string acoustic I had as a kid lol. I've always been into music wayyyy more than any of my friends. Id ride around and try and figure out timing of songs on the radio aka 4/4, 11/7, etc...while trying to keep in time with the tapping foot. Yea. I've always been a musician. I just finally gave in to it and I couldn't be happier about it.
Finally, Almost a year i follow you and i feel so affected by what you ve done here. Wish yall the pleasure to nail Nirvana s tone and all the love and support Aaron you need !
You really have found the tones through your obsession. It's clear but distorted without any compression. The resonator guitar makes a huge difference. I wonder if it can be done with a different resonator type guitar?
What about the guitar tones on The Pumpkins Mellon Collie album, that would be a project and a half. If you are a fan of their stuff? That album and In Utero are two of my most favourite sounding albums ever. Sure Siamese Dream too but Mellon Collie was just reined in chaos. Love it GREAT video by the way, well done.
@@magraretsbane6274 Oh definitely, mine is Bodies, that sound the feedback and when the riff kicks in and they just layer it up again and again, been rattling round my skull forever.
THis is amazing. You still use the Fender Oxford speakers? And do tubes matter? Mine has the stock ARS tubes but heard that Earnie replaced the tubes with different ones. I found a quad a few weeks ago and let me tell you I am so glad I got it now haha. I use the jag which def doesn't quite get their with the sansamp and always wondered why the tone sounded closer when I paired the sansamp with a distortion pedal as the sansamp on its own always has this muffled tone to it but it all makes sense now. So glad I found your channel 2 years ago this truly has been an amazing experience.
I’ve been watching since your first tone recreation video (I can still remember when and where I watched it) and to see you come so far is amazing man, I can’t wait for the website and the guitars , and for what’s to come. Keep doin what you’re doin Aaron
I had already been experimenting with different settings on the sansamp because of your other videos with varied settings, even experimenting with the filter matrix on a few different pedals that I have. I really do need an original echoflange or polychorus, the original and clones of electric mistress aren't quite cutting it. Still sounds great, and is so much fun to play. But as far as the different settings on the sansamp, yeah it doesn't make much sense that he would have one of the most tweakables drive stompsbox of the era, but not check out the other settings? There's even a picture of him bent over tweaking sansamp knobs on stage, so I wouldn't be surprised if he changed em live here and there, even if only to satisfy his own stage sound, possible early hearing loss from making that guitar explosion sound for so many years, and probably just because he wanted to lol. Thanks man, great videos!
Hope you don"t mind if i ask a few questions about the hi flyer 1: How thick is the body? 2: What is the length of the body from top to bottom? 3: What is the width of the body? I've been thinking of making my own hi flyer build but couldn't find a proper template for the body, also your work is amazing, keep it up man!
This is freaking awesome, love your videos! Thanks for all the time and passion you've put into this! As a guitar player it's really satisfying that somebody else has the same obsession about this unique, heavy, aggressive and raw sound of in utero. You nailed it! Greetings from Germany
Dude I love your videos I feel like I need to tell you: I don't understand like 89% of the stuff you talk about, and I still love your videos and love hearing you talk about this stuff, obviously it's because of how much passion you have for in this case In Utero, but yeah I just wanted to let you know how you manage to get my, (and probably other people like me), attention with the quality of your videos and the passion you put into it. Disclaimer: also one of the reasons I probably don't understand most of it is because English is not my native language, even tho I consider my English pretty good for a Spanish speaker I don't have a lot of the technical vocabulary that you use when you talk about sound in general, idk why I spilled all this useless information here but that's it, thanks a lot for such cool videos, looking forward for more
Nice work on finding tone and showing the process. You are building a great guitar collection at the same time. This definitely sounds better than the other sites that get close to their live sound but not many could figure out their recording setup with every detail. I can’t wait to see what you figure out next.
Amazing job! 🙌🏼💙🤘🏼 I'm new to this channel, but I noticed you usually keep a capo on the 1st fret. I was curious if that's because you prefer being tuned down to D standard for tension reasons or simply bc it's easier to switch between the various tunings Nirvana used over the years (between E, half step, and D). Seriously impressive work you do though. Wish I had this channel 30 years ago lol. Would've saved me a lot of work! 🤣🙏🏼🤘🏼
My vote for the mosrite finish is for something like a Shell pink or like a yellow. Something different than what you have already from a color perspective!
Thank's Dude! You to your soul in to it. This is really EPIC!!! Looking foward on your next videos. Why not go in depth with each song? Many of us will appriciated. Color of the Guitar, something emblamatic of Kurt. Thank's again. Salute you from Bogota, Colombia South America. 🤘🏽🙌🏽✊🏽🤟🏽🤘🏽🙌🏽
I haven't miss one of your videos, been there from day one. Wow, what an accomplishment, it's been so incredible to follow your journey! I'll definitively buy your aluminium guitar when it'll be ready!
Another awesome video. Those parts where you are twice playing those exact tones are absolutely mind blowing. I am excited every Sunday to see if new video will come out. Also can´t wait for the store to be available so we can buy the Engine pedal and Veleno. Just out of curiosity, how much will the Veleno cost? Thanks for response and everything you do for us.
Aaron this sounds amazing! Amazing job! I recently picked up a late 70s Twin reverb with the Utah speakers which I’m excited to start using to hopefully get some of the in Utero sounds. I think your spot on in terms of how they got the sound, I the Quad is definitely the biggest factor. Had no idea about the DS-2 being used along with the SansAmp at the same time but amazing that you figured it out! Can’t wait to see what you have in store for the future!
this channel is fucking excellent and makes me want to pick up a guitar every time a vid comes out. we'll need a bit of international postage for that aluminium axe also! 🇦🇺
Now brotha,use that beautiful tone!!!Love to hear that tone put to use in your music or im sure others are wanting you to help in the production of their music.👍
Hi Aaron!, It would be great if you could explain a little bit more about those mics and their placement, distance from the Quad Reverb, etc... Thank you for sharing your work!
Awesome that you got the tone! But I wonder what about Pedal X or the Echo Flanger/Polychorus filter sound? I know the EF/PC was used as an effect on the HSB solo and SA but I recall Kurt being worried about a pedal that "made the whole album"
I saw you had a jcm800 and an op-amp big muff- have you ever tried recreating the siamese dream tone? that'd be a cool video if you still have that gear :D
i have a frontman 15 i bought at a goodwill type store with an unkown 10 inch speaker that was literally junk, it was so dirty and it didn't even work, got home, my dad fixed it for me and it took me MONTHS to get a good sound out of it, i put the treble to 10, mid 2.5 and bass to 3 and the DS1's tone lightly to the left and its REALLY, REALLY GOOD! even if the speaker has holes on the outise because they didn't put it in right, it sounds incredible, it can do all sorts of tones if you change its setting right, from bleach to in utero, to lives, its just amazing how a trash "begginer" amp can be so good. (btw my guitar is a IYV PRS with sorta humbuckery single coils)
Can you recreate the sound from Radio Friendly Unit Shifter including intro etc. Been trying to figure out the sound for that song as I feel its one of the coolest from the album.
Just a tip: look and listen to how Kurt plays serve the servants live. During the choruses when he goes to the second chord (c sharp) he also barre the low e string fourth fret (so a G sharp) on top of the chord :)
How much are these Valentino inspired aluminium guitars gonna sell for? I am interested. I hope this works out for you! (I know you’ve gone into a hole doing tone chasing. Thank you!)
You should try to great your approximation at how songs Kurt was writing (i.e. Do Re Mi, What More Can I Say, etc.) would have sounded in recorded properly in 1994 given the types of guitars and equipment he was growing more favorable with. It’d be interesting to hear a version of Do Re Mi with aluminum guitars.
You legend (for the Mosrite, I think Sonic blue like Kurt's Ferrington and the Skystangs would be perfect for it, and a nitrocellulose finish would age PERFECTLY)
I absolutely love this.. I think (and this sounds unique) burgundy would look good on the mosrite…like the red burgundy bc I know that fender called burgundy like a blue color but I think dark red burgundy would look cool on the moserite. Also are you gonna start back up the “recreate that tone” series bc I’m still curious on songs like the first studio version of aneurysm
Hi Aaron, I don't know if you're going to read this, but I've been following your channel for a LONG time and I really appreciate your videos of information about Kurt and equipment used by him. I had already commented about it in a previous video and until then I had no information about the Boss Katana, but now I have the 100W Boss Katana mkII for my guitar and I really have no idea how to get that sound so specific from Kurt, here where I live (Brazil) the conditions to have American equipment are extremely bizarre and we basically have to have a fortune to be able to acquire good equipment and in this case of good equipment I am specifically referring to pedals, because a common amplifier that is used by most of people outside Brazil would be the Katana, but here only one Boss katana mkII amplifier is almost 3X THE Brazilian MINIMUM WAGE. Making it basically impossible to buy a fender that costs 10X and a FENDER® '65 DELUXE REVERB® COMBO that costs 15x, that is, basically impossible, so I ask you, wouldn't you be interested in actually making a comparison between these amps vintages that you own and the Boss Katanas mkii (not just because I have them, but because they have interesting and different technologies compared to the MKI) 50/100W, SHOWING THE DIFFERENCE/SIEMILITY, configurations of both amps? You really have a gold mine of gear and most people who play guitar in small/bedroom/garage band gigs don't have a quad reverb or if they do have it for sale in the country/state it's really expensive so I ask that if being able to help the guitar world with your wonderful information in a more practical way would also be of great value.
I watched your how to mod your small clone video this morning I am just trying to order the parts a coupe of them are out of stock on amazon but I am going to do the mod 👍🏻
I know it’s a bit extra, but I think it would be sublime to have the mosrite have a white paint job with a few chips in the paint to reveal a daphne blue or a sunburst color underneath as if that was the guitars original paint job.
Excellent work!!! Ya nailed it. As for the Mosrite color… Hell, you gotta live with it and pay for it, so it’s up to you… At first I thought teal blue, then I thought crazy plum, then I thought of a pearl green, then I thought of Cobain’s green cardigan and thought that dirty alligator green, then I started thinking of electric blue variations… It doesn’t matter, it’s a Mosrite and it will look great in any color or no color at all… Get artsy, express something you like with it, just have fun doing it and it’s all good.
