Sam Ash Fuzzz BoxxA great fuzz/ distortion, worthy of the hype. The reissue nails it.

If this amp's a-borken, don't come a... blorken

I thought In Utero used a lot of the Sansamp GT1, but I may be talking out my hole.

This spell-check function is pissing me off big time.

free meat wrote:I thought In Utero used a lot of the Sansamp GT1, but I may be talking out my hole.Kurt used a Sansamp Tech 21 on the In Utero tour but not sure if it was used in the studio. It does have a unique property where the trails almost sound like they are wavering. As if the signal was being played back by a tape deck that had a high amount of wow and flutter. Reminds me of an OG Interfax HP1 in that respect.

numberthirty wrote:First, The Boss Line Selector pedal. It will allow you to put two pedals into loops, and combine the levels of said loops before feeding them into a lone output. You can go In Between hog wild with some sort of a fuzz and some sort of a distortion....Third, pedal power supplies that will let you run a pedal a lower than nine volts. If Strained... is what you are trying to ballpark, it might get you somewhere close to that. I can vouch for these. I really want to pick up a Line Selector. Running a Rat parallel with a fuzz is a great sound. You could also try asymmetrical diodes with the Rat (I tend to find it nice stock, so I haven't tried it). I love Rats. Running them about a volt starved is very nice.

RE: In Utero Asymmetrical Distortion - Conspiracy Theories I have not heard so many conflicting statements about a moment in historical reality, since the last time I went to a JFK assassination conference. Were there ninja tube replacers at the sessions. I will go with Steve's ears / memory on this "The single power tube theory". See the below diagram on how one tube could hit two sockets.As far as the amp goes on the unplugged (from amps) show. Being unplugged there is an on stage wedge monitor but no visible amps. So perhaps the amp is in a sewer shooting up from below?

[Update] One of my contacts believes they may have found the perpetrator!!!If you look closely in the background of this photo could this be the mystery Fender amp?Remember direct your eyes; "Back and to the left"

Maybe the borken Quad Reverb at the recording session and the repaired Twin at the rehearsal are different amps.

Good read this thread...I remember (as a Nirvana geek at the time) that his tech Earnie Bailey said he serviced Cobain's main amp before it went off for the session and it had been running on 2 output tubes but he got it working on all 4, though the article says it was an 80s Twin not a Quad so it's likely bullshit or someone's confused. Hence me asking if there were ever any photos of the gear the band used to record with. "Fender Twin Reverb. 1982 blackface 135-watt "Ultra-Linear" model (57). Very clean in sound. It had missing knobs, broken off pots, and a fallen in jack when Earnie took it in for a makeover. It was functioning but the pots crackled and it only had two Peavey 6L6 power tubes in it (which meant it was only running on half the power)-- Kurt didn't know how it worked with only two output tubes but felt it was the key to its sound. Earnie knew it would sound even better with 4 matched power tubes. He replaced the two Peavey 6L6's with a quartet of Groove Tubes 6L6's (GE or Sylvania) and biased it for him, as well as fixed all of the above. The amp had 7025 preamp tubes (59). Earnie pulled a prank on Kurt for the "In Utero" rehearsals and told Kurt he only cleaned the pots. Kurt said it sounded better than ever and Earnie let him in on the secret (41)(57)(59). Used for recording "In Utero" (32) and "Unplugged." See each section for more details on this amp"