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How do I get a Nirvana sound on guitar?

What guitar should I buy to get a certain sound? (read description)?

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    Tom, like many pop punk guitarists, has an overall brighter tone. You can cop this by keeping your amp's Treble knob up and even raising the treble side on your pickups a little. Vintage pickups will take more tweaking to get that tone because they usually don't have a hot enough output or the treble response that most modern pickups do (a horrible generalization, but it's often true)... you will need to compensate for that in your signal chain. It is difficult to match the tone of a guitarist on a record, as they tend to have a fair bit of processing (EQ, compression, studio tricks like layering or using multiple amps). Get as close as you reasonably can and call it good. IIRC, Tom uses a Strat with high output pickups, which is actually pretty common in the punk scene (brighter tone, with enough output to drive an amp hard enough to get a good distorted tone).

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Just caught your question and smiled. The ol' Peavey T-60 (depending on what shape it is in) can still be worth around $500.00 today. The things was under-rated way back when but represents one of the first all-American, CAD and top notch electronics back in the late 70's and early 80's. It can imitate both a Gibson or a Fender when adjusted just so. Keep it close and in the family. Just a suggestion. And use that phase switch a little more. I still have mine.

Harry

Just caught your question and smiled. The ol' Peavey T-60 (depending on what shape it is in) can still be worth around $500.00 today. The things was under-rated way back when but represents one of the first all-American, CAD and top notch electronics back in the late 70's and early 80's. It can imitate both a Gibson or a Fender when adjusted just so. Keep it close and in the family. Just a suggestion. And use that phase switch a little more. I still have mine.

Harry

Tom, like many pop punk guitarists, has an overall brighter tone. You can cop this by keeping your amp's Treble knob up and even raising the treble side on your pickups a little. Vintage pickups will take more tweaking to get that tone because they usually don't have a hot enough output or the treble response that most modern pickups do (a horrible generalization, but it's often true)... you will need to compensate for that in your signal chain. It is difficult to match the tone of a guitarist on a record, as they tend to have a fair bit of processing (EQ, compression, studio tricks like layering or using multiple amps). Get as close as you reasonably can and call it good. IIRC, Tom uses a Strat with high output pickups, which is actually pretty common in the punk scene (brighter tone, with enough output to drive an amp hard enough to get a good distorted tone).

Saul

Why do you want to sound exactly like someone else? A vintage Peavy T60 is a pretty awesome guitar. Keep it. Besides, you can try to do your own interpretation of other songs, and have your own special personality.

Crispus E. Shays

I think Tom has his own Epiphone guitar ..

Kevin Denney

Why do you want to sound exactly like someone else? A vintage Peavy T60 is a pretty awesome guitar. Keep it. Besides, you can try to do your own interpretation of other songs, and have your own special personality.

Crispus E. Shays

I think Tom has his own Epiphone guitar ..

Kevin Denney

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