Seeming as there a lot of dudes on here who have plenty of experience with guitars and getting good sounds, I was wondering, what amp sim would be best for getting a sound like the rhythm guitars on the SuperUnknown Soundgarden album? I really like the sound on songs like Mailman, 4th Of July and Head Down. The distortion and sound is so heavy but you can still hear the guitar clearly. It sounds a bit like a strat does with clean sounds but I'm sure they used guitars with humbuckers on that album.
Soundgarden guitar sound?
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Sweetnothing
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They used both telecasters, grestch and the guild sgs...amps were rectifiers, twins and plexis from what I remember...
I think this is correct. I remember reading this in a Guitar World interview around the time the album came out.
jrt12
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really? what happened? well over a decade later this still remains one of my all-time favorite albums
They hated how much work the producer made them put into it. They really scrutinized the integrity of takes to the point of it being ridiculous. Their next and final album, down on the upside was a big departure from this. Matt Cameron tried a lot of single mic techniques on the drums to simplify the recording process. There's interviews about it on http://web.stargate.net/soundgarden/ somewhere about it.
edit: here's a semi-descriptive interview http://web.stargate.net/soundgarden/articles/mesaboogie.shtml
edit: here's a semi-descriptive interview http://web.stargate.net/soundgarden/articles/mesaboogie.shtml
The guitar sound on that album though is the best sound I think they ever had on all the albums. A lot of work just for a sound though.
