Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York Guitar Tone | Amp & Pedal Settings
My attempt at recreating Kurt Cobain’s iconic MTV Unplugged in New York tone. Using gear that is similar to what Kurt used
History of Kurt Cobain’s Unplugged Guitar video: https://youtu.be/C6cCEoC5Tco
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 – Intro. Gear overview, amp & pedal settings
SONGS:
5:41 – About a Girl
6:53 – Come As You Are
8:48 – Jesus Doesn’t Want Me For A Sunbeam
9:54 – The Man Who Sold The World
11:10 – Pennyroyal Tea
12:24 – Dumb
14:00 – Polly
15:01 – On a Plain
15:57 – Something in The Way
16:33 – All Apologies
17:43 – Where Did You Sleep Last Night
GEAR USED:
Sigma D18e Unplugged Build
– Vintage 90’s Bartolini 3AV Soundhole Pickup
– DeArmond Rowe Dynasonic Neck & Bridge pickups
– Martin Phosphor Bronze Medium Strings 13-56
– Dunlop Orange Tortex Pick
Electro-Harmonix Small Clone
Boss DS-2
Fender Twin Reverb
My amazon storefront where you can buy gear/parts Kurt used: https://www.amazon.com/shop/nirvanaguitars
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Originally posted by UCz-TQpHrMHxQj5ego-TDyqA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQjuZ5qDEMI
I apologize that the video is a little choppy during “The Man Who Sold The World” and “Pennyroyal Tea”, YouTube’s copyright police came after me for very specific sections of those songs so they had to be clipped ????
Here are full uninterrupted covers of those 2 songs with the same tone and gear!
TMWSTW: https://youtu.be/WHQirp7c3Gs
Pennyroyal Tea: https://youtu.be/MdX-gGERDcY
that guitar is so "sigma"
(pls laugh)
what are those chords called you're playing at 10:18 my friend? (LOVE THE VIDEO BY THE WAY MY GOSH)
It’s interesting that Kurt decided to put the nobs and pickguard on the top, not bottom, as usually. I think that Kurt wanted to give this guitar to someone after the Unplugged show.
Wow, job well done on capturing the original sound
You can get this tone on a strat if you do the amp setting with mid and neck pickups run through a clean tone
The only problem is the snappyness of the string
It's weird to hear this without bass and drums ngl.
Forgot to mention Kurt Played half a tone down Eb Standard
No oh me and lake of fire????
Hi Eric, do you know the kid who was successfully replicate Kurt's Martin D-18E tone with just a Seymour Duncan wood pickup and a NUX amp cause I can't find him here in Youtube.
I can hear the applause in my head
The fact that you had to cut parts of TMHSTW and Pennyroyal Tea shows how accurate it is
It's the same guitar tunning for all songs?
It started as a plain sigma
Dude, you should have set the electronics and the pick guard up in a left handed orientation and then strung it up right handed. It's such a minor thing but it changes the sound to the exact tone of the unplugged performance. Don't get me wrong, this guitar is like 97.5% of the way there. It's close, like really close, but I can hear that it's not exactly the same as unplugged. Kurt also had to kind of hover his arm over the control knobs so he wouldn't accidentally mess with the volume controls, which also gives acoustic guitars in particular a VERY different sound. I can hear that you're kind of hugging the guitar and Kurt couldn't do that because of the way his was set up. Other than that you did a great job on this project. Much respect
Great Work, Man!
2:12
Cool cover but Where is plateau
Fantastic content. Your ear is off the chain. Brilliant
This is off our first record. Most people don't own it…. —–> 5:41
sounds good- i had no idea he was playing through dearmonds– when playing though conventional pups like that, the acoustic nature of whatever they are attached to means next to nothing (they "pickup" the tiny current generated by the electromagnetic field of the struck string- this is opposed to an acoustic/ pietzo pairing that work …well..acoustically)– i suspect he used very heavy steal electric guitar strings for that outing
Lake of fire
I love how you played the man who sold the world and included the mistake he made
Does your store no longer have Fender Mustangs for sale?
Ever consider looking at Pat Smear’s guitar and how it was set up?
Dude. Nailed it. I've listened to that album a few times a week for 30 years and that sounds REALLY similar. Binary high five to you good sir.