So in order to do that you’ll need a delay, and ideally an analogue one. The flip side of Sonic Youth’s massive guitar sounds is their more delicate, almost ambient instrumentals that are scattered across their discography. Sometimes it’s best to know a good thing when you see it and not mess with it. This reissue does a near perfect job and its small and £75. Virtually every Alt band of note used the Op- Amp big muff in the 90’s (Smashing Pumpkins being the most noted) because of its stupidly high gain wall of fuzz sound. Sonic Youth would sound a whole lot less angst-y without some good ole fuzz. Pedal 3: EHX Op-Amp Muff (£75) Finishing off the drive section with, of course, a fuzz. I know that’s a pain for some people but its not that hard to pick one up and all the other pedals coming out that do this type of thing either suck or cost £200 so you do the math. They’re quite hard to buy new these days but there are tons on Ebay. I chose this one purely because it’s the only one I’ve owned in this style of pedal and it works great. What you can do however is buy pedals that recreate amp style gain like the BOSS 59’. I don’t recommend cranking your fender amp up for gain, because like them, you’ll go deaf. They tended to crank old amps to get a natural drive sound, then have another guitar with some kind of fuzz on it to get this marriage of old and new style gain. Ok, so couple things you need to consider when looking at the Sonic Youth drive sound. I’ve said it before I don’t wanna say it again, just buy it. Thing is, in order to get the right chorus sound you need it to be on the budget side of the price point scale, but with enough sculpt-ability to get the right sound. Sonic Youth like nearly every Alt band ever really liked using chorus, and why not? It sounds dope and when used properly doesn’t have to be a cheesy 80’s vibe (although I love that vibe so don’t you dare say bad word about it so help me god). Starting from the cleans and working up here.
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