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What kind of fuzz pedal did they use with this album? Or was it several lined up together? I've been trying to get that level of distortion just by playing simple chords but I haven't come across it yet.

― Lee is Free (Lee is Free), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:43 (twenty years ago)

What we know:

- hollow or semi-hollow guitars, incl. Gretsch Tennessean, Gibson ES-330 (feedback!)
- Fender Twin (reverb cranked)
- Shin-Ei Fuzz-Wah

They've been known to use a Proco RAT live.

Original shin-eis are a bit dear, but a decent Si fuzz-face clone should get you a lot of the way there. I haven't tried the Dunlop Hendrix fuzz-wah, so I don't know how close that comes, or even if it's in the same ZIP code.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:59 (twenty years ago)

I thought I'd read that they used Solid State amps on Psychocandy. It sure sounds like it a lot of the time.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 10 March 2006 00:41 (twenty years ago)

I remember reading an interview with them in Musician Magazine (!!!) in about 1986 and they were asked what was the secret to their sound, and they said "Shinei fuzz pedals - we've got the last four of them in the world.!"

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Friday, 10 March 2006 11:15 (twenty years ago)

Ha, I have a fancy boutique shin-ei clone/turbocharged adaptation, the g.s.wyllie "rising Sun", the JaMC sound connection never occurred to me before, but now that I think about it, it does do that speaker cones tearing as you play noise! I'll plug it in tonight, I think.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 10 March 2006 13:26 (twenty years ago)

That's a fine-lookin's pedal you got there.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:45 (twenty years ago)

I didn't realize there were only 4 left in the world. I should never have sold the one I had...

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:49 (twenty years ago)

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