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When You Sleep guitar tone

My Bloody Valentine · 1991 · Alternative

Fuzz

Fuzz Tone

AmpOrange Rockerverb
GuitarGibson SG
PickupBridge humbucker
GAIN4.5
BASS5
MID5
TREBLE5.5
PRESENCE4.5
REVERB2

SIGNAL CHAIN

  1. EHX Big Muff Pi fuzz
    Sustain 5.5 · Tone 3.5 · Volume 5
    The wall-of-fuzz core of the tone.

Ride the guitar volume knob: full up for the riff, backed off to clean up.

These are starting points, not gospel. Every amp is a little different, so let your ears do the last 10%.

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