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Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 2:23 pm
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Hello, I was just if someone could help me with a good Nirvana/Kurt Cobain amp setting for the Mustang I. I'm lookin for the more basic punk sound like their live performances. I know it's with the Twin Reverb (i believe green bank) preset, Gain 7, Treble 7, and Bass 3 but what about the Mod, Delay/Reverb, and Master? I really need help, thanks!


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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:02 am
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damn, 56 views and no help yet, this is harder than i thought


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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 2:28 pm
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if you need serious help i'd go to the fender lounge. everyones there.

heres a site that might help you
http://www.kurtsequipment.com/

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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 3:43 pm
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radio_friendly_unit_shifter wrote:
if you need serious help i'd go to the fender lounge. everyones there.

heres a site that might help you
http://www.kurtsequipment.com/
kurts equipment only shows what and when he used certain equipment, it has no settings or anything specific, just items and dates


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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 4:12 pm
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Greetings NC

Fender has attempted to make a Nirvana esk sound with each of its modeling amps before, IE Cyber Twin, G-Dec…..ect….

My issue is that the pre-sets for these always seem to trashy sounding to me

A few things you have to keep in mind

- What guitar are you using?, Kurt played the Jags, Mustangs, and a cheap strat live when he wanted to smash it at the end of a live set.

- He also had installed in his guitars humbuckers, Hotrails…ect. Easy to get his clean tone on a strat using a Twin Reverb setting, more difficult to get his muddy distortion.

- He also used the big muff distortion boxes

- AND……more importantly during live performances he used Mesa-Boogies a lot for that bassy-er sound………….i love my fender amps but when it comes to bottom end they can't compare.


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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 4:27 pm
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lestatfuse wrote:
Greetings NC

Fender has attempted to make a Nirvana esk sound with each of its modeling amps before, IE Cyber Twin, G-Dec…..ect….

My issue is that the pre-sets for these always seem to trashy sounding to me

A few things you have to keep in mind

- What guitar are you using?, Kurt played the Jags, Mustangs, and a cheap strat live when he wanted to smash it at the end of a live set.

- He also had installed in his guitars humbuckers, Hotrails…ect. Easy to get his clean tone on a strat using a Twin Reverb setting, more difficult to get his muddy distortion.

- He also used the big muff distortion boxes

- AND……more importantly during live performances he used Mesa-Boogies a lot for that bassy-er sound………….i love my fender amps but when it comes to bottom end they can't compare.
im usin a squier bullet strat with dean markley .10-.52, and a fender mustang


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Negative Creep wrote:
radio_friendly_unit_shifter wrote:
if you need serious help i'd go to the fender lounge. everyones there.

heres a site that might help you
http://www.kurtsequipment.com/
kurts equipment only shows what and when he used certain equipment, it has no settings or anything specific, just items and dates

just trying to help. and plus, dont you wanna try to find your own sound?

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Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 8:48 am
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radio_friendly_unit_shifter wrote:
Negative Creep wrote:
radio_friendly_unit_shifter wrote:
if you need serious help i'd go to the fender lounge. everyones there.

heres a site that might help you
http://www.kurtsequipment.com/
kurts equipment only shows what and when he used certain equipment, it has no settings or anything specific, just items and dates

just trying to help. and plus, dont you wanna try to find your own sound?
what i used to use on my standard amp is gain:7, bass:3, mid:4, treble:7, and overdrive on; it had a real punk sound to it and then i learned thats what kurt cobain used on his twin reverb, i just need a way to transfer gain:7, bass:3, mid:4, treble:7 to the same sound on the mustang and then add reverb:2. but the problem is idk how to set the reverb knob to equal 2 on the mustang, nor do i know what the master knob should be on, or the mod, thats why i need help


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then i learned thats what kurt cobain used on his twin reverb

Where did u learn this if I may ask


Stay away from any distortions that say "Extreme, Dyna-touch, or Deville"….these are too metal.

For myself

When I use my mustang "both" phase/switches are far left, that automatically gives me a nice clean for lithium.

I Have my bass higher than 3, more around 5-6, and my treble a little further down. Cobain didn’t use any Reverb so I wouldn’t worry about that.

Try the "Modern" or "Vintage" distortion setting, these are trying to emulate the Marshal stacks. They don’t have as much of the metal trash tone to them.

The mustang uses the fuse program does it not? Bottom line is you have to experiment, the old settings on one amp will not transfer over to another unless there exactly the same model....and even then.

What songs are you wanting to play? Or are you looking for just the general tone?

I can noodle around on my G-Dec to get a setting on fuse and let you know in the next day two what settings i used if u wish?.......All my main settings for the Nirvana stuff is on my Cyber SE for now.


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lestatfuse wrote:
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then i learned thats what kurt cobain used on his twin reverb

Where did u learn this if I may ask


Stay away from any distortions that say "Extreme, Dyna-touch, or Deville"….these are too metal.

For myself

When I use my mustang "both" phase/switches are far left, that automatically gives me a nice clean for lithium.

I Have my bass higher than 3, more around 5-6, and my treble a little further down. Cobain didn’t use any Reverb so I wouldn’t worry about that.

Try the "Modern" or "Vintage" distortion setting, these are trying to emulate the Marshal stacks. They don’t have as much of the metal trash tone to them.

The mustang uses the fuse program does it not? Bottom line is you have to experiment, the old settings on one amp will not transfer over to another unless there exactly the same model....and even then.

What songs are you wanting to play? Or are you looking for just the general tone?

I can noodle around on my G-Dec to get a setting on fuse and let you know in the next day two what settings i used if u wish?.......All my main settings for the Nirvana stuff is on my Cyber SE for now.
i learned about him using the twin reverb from kurtsequipment and almost every site on google if you type in kurt cobain amp settings pulls up gain 7, treble 7, bass 3, mid 4, and reverb 2.

im playin songs along the lines of punk, and in terms of nirvana im looking for that 'live at reading' distorted tone thats more power chord oriented but still flexible enough for short solos.


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just came up with this on fuse?
used the song "in Bloom" as a reference hope u like it

american 90's
gain 3 oclock
treble 3 oclock
mid 8 oclock
bass 3 oclock
presence 11 oclock

noise gate
and a 4x12m cabinet

hope it helps!

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