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I found the SECRET to Kurt Cobain’s guitar tone


Here’s how to recreate Kurt Cobain’s NIRVANA guitar tone for FREE!
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Looking to recreate Kurt Cobain’s legendary Nirvana guitar tone from Nevermind without breaking the bank? This video shows you how to achieve his sound using only free guitar amp plugins. With a simple setup consisting of a guitar, Boss DS-1 distortion, Electro Harmonix Small Clone, and a Mesa Boogie amplifier, Kurt Cobain’s guitar tone has inspired millions of players. Follow along with this step-by-step guide and get your own Nirvana sound!
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Time Stamps:
0:00 – Intro
0:36 – History & Setup
1:06 – Distortion Tone
3:00 – Clean Tone
4:40 – Chorus Tone
5:10 – Super Grunge
5:50 – Solo Tone
6:45 – Full Mix
8:00 – Final Thoughts

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Originally posted by UCh-DUGy52k5S-kxOoIZlBcQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdnpbO2itvI

33 thoughts on “I found the SECRET to Kurt Cobain’s guitar tone

  • Man you gotta relearn some of those songs. On breed you missed the bend and smells like teen spirit was completely off…

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  • if your doing nirvana on a budget, i recommend keeping your amp extremely clean, low bass, highish mids and med-highish treble (you’re gonna have to kinda ear it out) and getting all your distortion from the DS-1 or DS-2. kurts amp was imparting very little tone (which is a very important thing to note)

    Here’s just some general info for Nevermind tones:
    Kurt had 3 amps, the mesa boogie preamp, a bassman head, and i believe a full sized vox 2×12.
    i believe 2 different style of cabs were used to record nevermind, one cab with 80’s celestion G12T75 speakers (most noticable on in bloom, on a plain, and other songs with more of a fizzy distortion) and one cab with early 70s celestion greenbacks (which are pretty rare and usually expensive.) the vox ac30 also had 90s greenbacks in it. Generally the bassman head was plugged into the greenback cab, and the mesa was plugged into the g12t75 cab and the greenback cab.

    the speakers played a large role in the massive sound of nevermind.
    as for ds 1 settings, tone should be around 10o clock. level and gain maxed or near max.

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  • Great video! The tone is great, so is your playing. Also you really have some balls to leave the comments on lmao

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  • Andy: Here’s how to recreate Kurt Cobain tone!
    Also Andy: plays SLTS with a Blink 182 guitar

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  • In live shows Kurt used the DS-1 with the tone at 4, distortion 10, level 10. This may have varied a bit in a studio setting, but his guitar tech during that time as chimed in on the net a few times with information like that. Just a tip, but this still sounds great!

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  • Presets download? Been searching for these tones for a while now. Seen many examples of the ''Nevermind'' tone and this is the closest. It sounds remarkably close. It'd be interesting how you mixed and matched the Supergrunge. Did you record 4 separate guitar parts for that, for instance. Thanks anyway.

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  • Would it be nice to see someone recreating the sound of from the muddy of the wishkah for once ????

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  • bro your video gives me that old feeling when you played grunge in your room in rainy day in 80s

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  • I gotta ask, what's the reasoning behind playing Teen Spirit and Come As You Are incorrectly? Would it be copyright or something?

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  • theres one issue I dont if Im the only experiencing it but when I add the muff pedal it just makes a high pitch sound but all in all the videos was very helpful thank you so much!

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  • you should try to remake the weezer blue album guitar tone for free.

    also great video 🙂

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  • Andy, I am your huge fan from japan, I just want to tell you that, You give alot of efforts on your videos but you don't get the results(People just don't know what good content is), Bro you can take rest for 1/2 years, You still have the same energy as old Andy but I just feel that you are forcing yourself to make videos, Love you, Take rest♥️!Sorry for terrible english(๑•﹏•)

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  • This is so helpful! This gives me ideas for future arrangements. And gives me a starting point because I struggle a lot with finding good tones????

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  • I just wake up 7 in the morning and you really2 made this. Man, you really2 hear me and you kill me with this.

    Thanks, Anndy.

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