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A lot of J’s tone live revolves around his Jazzmasters, Mashall plexi stacks along with vintage Electro Harmonix Big Muffs. I believe this was probably the case in the early days when they recorded YLAOM as well. Recently on albums like Beyond and Farm J records with old telecasters, and small combo amps (Fender deluxe reverbs, pricetons, etc.) along with his vintage Big Muffs.
Old Marshall Plexi’s are expensive, but I’m sure if you went after a smaller tube combo amp with a Big Muff you could probably get pretty close to J’s tone. Usually a guitar shop will let you play around a bit, so go test out some combinations at a shop before you buy.
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Farm was recorded in Mascis’s home studio. I figured that asking about gear was a good place to start our conversation. “It’s on the top floor, the third floor of the house. We recorded to Pro Tools. We have a pretty good setup. It sounds pretty good. And we mixed to tape. I’ve got a lot of cool mic preamps, mic stuff. We did the basic tracks live but we only kept the drums. I had two main recording setups: a Gibson Les Paul Junior through a tweed Fender Deluxe amp, and lead is more like just the 58 Fender Telecaster through a Vox Super Berkeley which is sorta the American AC15 from the 60s. And a lot of fuzz boxes. A lot of different ones. I just plug in a bunch of fuzz boxes, like I’d use a Roland BeeBaa Fuzz, a Super Fuzz, Big Cheese Love Tone, an Analog Man. I’d just plug in a bunch of pedals together and see what it sounded like.”
Wel This confirmes Farm. Sorry guys…
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