the INSANE amp Kurt Cobain used to record clean tones on in utero
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- Nirvana's In Utero clean tones are hands down my favorite guitar tones. I've spent to last 2 year years trying to figure it out, and with the help of Earnie Bailey (Kurt Cobain's former guitar tech) I was able to finally get it. Here's the story behind it.
Special shoutout to @isaiahgamervw7306 for helping me find pics of Kurts sound tech 2x12 cabinet!
Hey everyone! I’ve seen a ton of comments asking about the music in the video and where to find it. It’s all my own music I’ve been working on. So that’s why Shazam isn’t finding anything!
Ah! Well, it rips. Kudos!
Dawg you need to release an album please 🙏
Ahhhh!! Nice
When do you release it?
need those songs on Tidal
This whole _In Utero_ tone journey has been incredible to witness-is there anything left to uncover?
pls free kurt mustang
Just those amp schematics I suppose, hopefully Earnie gives the go ahead sometime soon.
You know your right tone , John peel session tone
@@UltraZombiethe ykyr tone is very close to the in utero tone with some tidying up in the production
@RevertFlip It's got a similar vibe for sure but the YKYR tone is a lot brighter with less focus on that grindy low midrange of In Utero. Pretty sure the pedal was an Ibanez Turbo Tubescreamer or something like that. Great sounds either way!
That track starting at 11:58 seriously needs to be a whole thing of its own!
Coolest video I've seen in a long time. Hat off to you sir!
Thank you for sharing your research and experience in bringing Kurt Cobain’s music back to life🙌🏼 its so nostalgic and comforting 🥰
From one gear head to another, this video is golden. Thank you and more more more!!
Beautiful name for the amp
Amazing video work and music man, keep it up. Can't imagine how much time went into this!
Excellent video and great info. I'd have never guessed "Modded Marshall" for the clean sound. Also, you really ain't kidding about the U47. The one time I gotta to try one during my studio days, it was run through a Neve 1081 and it was the greatest I'd ever heard my voice through any mic. And I was just speaking into it to check the mic after I'd set it up. I describe it to people that it sounded so perfect that I almost felt as though I wan't even wearing headphones when I spoke into it.
man you got some shaolinesque discipline / dedication goin on.. I'm sure Kurt would have subscribed :D
Wow bro. Your dedication is amazing. I'm 42 and I remember when Kurt died. Thank you and from Iceland. Takk fyrir
love this!
thx for your work!
Fascinating, love the presentation... subscribed... Cheers!
You’re videos are amazing so cinematic and you should release ur own music have a good day 👍
What’s that song around the 12:00 mark? I love it
Great video.
Waiting for the captures!!!
i think Your song at 12:30 goin on and out tho is amazing. love the singing style. the singing he does on that album does rule. and u do a great version.
I have a double feeling while watching, I'm super happy that someone has finally found the answer to this famous clean tone from In Utero and at the same time super disappointed to realize that this famaux Frank Amp is inaccessible for most people. 'between us. I don't think Ernie's diagrams will be accessible and besides I know nothing about amp assembly. Do you think this Frank Amp can be modeled for a software like Neural Amp Modeler (NAM) or something like this? And if I summarize the Quad Reverb was rather used for distortion guitars?? And this one for the cleans?
this is so sick
6:14 amazing tone
You’re such a maniac .. in the best way possible …
Dude, I love the production quality of your videos. More importantly though, I love the substance of them. It's not just a bunch of useless filler dribble wrapped up with a shiny bow around it.
The production quality is film studio documentary level. The intro scene made me think 'how is this guy is "just" a youtuber??'
Thanks - that means a lot!
@@lippi2171 seriously!
Definitely dope production.....Aaron has skill.
Ok, so this is just the coolest fucking channel of all time.
That is exactly how I feel after watching this!!
it only gets better
If Earnie sold those Frankenstein amps he’d def make a lot.
I agree - I suggested this to him actually
I wonder how close it would sound to just slap a 12au7 or two in the preamp section of a Marshall, I’ll have to try it sometime.
if he did he could also hook up with Synergy and offer a module that goes clean and then superlead
@@AaronRashIf he doesn't, I hope you can share the specs some day if/when he gives the green light. Its kind of disappointing to watch the video only to discover that we don't get to know what produces the tone.
@@thomasclevelandI am far from nailing it as I don’t have the speakers and guitar but I was able to get in some sort of ball park with my Headrush by using a Plexi turning the normal volume to like 5 % and high volume to like 15% and then using a clean boost **after** the amp but before the speaker. He did note that it basically cut the gain down significantly, but without a mod like that you lose so much volume but at least digitally a clean boost remedies this. Perhaps a similar strategy with whatever gear you have at home may work with this. I’m curious to try the impulses when he has them available.
you should marry your wife, she puts up with a lot :D
I'm agree.
In my 34 years of brainless TH-cam scrolling, this video is the first one that really gets to me. It's the story, cinematography, our mutual love for music and some mystic sauce.
This is great, man. This is genuine cinema for the audiophile.
I'm pretty sure you haven't been scrolling through YT for 34 years... Brainlessly or otherwise.
It doesn't annoy you that he could've just fixed it in the mixer EQ?
what is the tracks starting at 4:44 and 12:18 THEYRE AMAZING Also congrats on the tone really happy for you
12:18 is something I‘d also like to know!
Me too!
Great video, in every aspect! The song at 12:20, is that your own or what is it?
Such a soul grabbing tune!
Cheers from Sweden.
I'm curious too!
me three@@zpope9
Holy shit! It is so crazy, that you were able to get hands on mic that Kurt used. Every video is on a totally different level. I am absolutely speechless. Just WOW.
Let’s take a minute to thank Aaron’s wife, I don’t think we’d have these videos if she wasn’t so supportive 🎉
You're totally right 😂
@@AaronRash 😁🥳
Thanks Aaron's wife!
It may be hard to believe, but you support.. actually helps others learn
ALOT of priceless information ...
Your
Thank you wife. You're the real deal.
Ill never understand ppl who wont ship amps. Like how do you think they got from the factory to stores? If shipped right theres no problem, and if youre that concerned you can spend the money and get someone that specializes in that kind of thing instead of UPS or fedex.
can anyone tell me the name of the song at 12:10 ?
You should start making amps for sale. I'd love to buy an actual Frankenamp like that. The clean tones matter to me the most and I love those clean tones!
Are the songs yours? E.g. at 12:00? Love that song and sound! Wish I could listen to the whole thing. Same with the acoustic bit at the end. Is there a chance to listen to it somewhere?
+1 ....... I'm searching these comments for clues about that song
Your videos are very interesting, it’s almost like a deep down of a Nirvana mystery that not everyone knows or doesn’t know, love how you bring it out to other people, especially for Nirvana fans❤
you and Nirvana Guitars should totally collab
No disrespect to NirvanaGuitars, but Aaron is way out of their league
nirvana guitars not that close to the tone of nirvana
@@jessielike2maybe the tone isn’t the exact same but at the same time eric doesn’t really fiddle with amps
100%, the combination of eric’s guitars and aaron’s equipment would be legendary
that shows the genius of kurt. 2-3 ppl need to collab to get his tone 20 years later
Your video's make my day man, tysm for all the time and effort you put in making these.
Whats the song during @4:44?
Damn, I thought I was a Nirvana nerd. You put me to shame. Love this video. Great storytelling and production value. What's the dark song at the 11:50 mark? Love it and need to hear more.
I would buy that music @aaron rush
Can we have more?
Fitting that the In Utero amp was a dumpster amp. Love it.
Haha yeah! That’s what I was thinking, pretty hilarious actually. Love you’re vids man!
I remember back in the day trying to replicate the clean tone on "Rape Me." I wish TH-cam and this video existed back in the day. Thank you for sharing your journey on achieving the tone.
It's such a weird tone - but I love it!
I remember the tip back in the day was to hit your distortion pedal but turn your volume nearly all the way down on the guitar itself.
Yeah, not quite!
that first driving song is dope, u should leave a tracklist in bio or some links
thanks! it's a random song I have to complete
please complete the song it is awesome, got goosebumps while listening@@AaronRash
i've waited for your video everyday
Same bro
Same 😭
This dude takes so long to upload but it's so worth jt
@@pollyslate456
Well it ain't cheap
Let me guess. You did not changed the 12AX7 for 12AU7 for less gain. Instead you removed all the bypass cathode capacitors in the preamp. Making V1 a full range amp, and every other triode having 20x less gain. Making the amp less gainy so less noisy perfect for cleans.
Definitely sounds like that to me.
What song is @12:00
What a studio!”
What are your rates?
leaving comment here incase someone replies
Wonder why he never asking Krist or Dave for more information about Nirvana recording session. Nowadays social media thing make easy way to reach impossible person.
This is amazing wow!
Shoulda named it the Kurt & Earnie!!!
This was really cool to watch!
Cobarnie
Have the head and the small cab and name them Kurt and Earnie
What's the name of the song at 12:10? Thanks
Please share the amp schematics. We really want to know what mods the amp had and why it sounds the way it does.
Earnie and I were talking over instagram and it looks like his page is down - I didn't get a chance to ask him about sharing anything before the fact, so as much as I would really love sharing the mods, it wouldn't be right for me to share his work without his permission
Does anyone know the song at 4:40 ?
what's that song snippet at 12:15?
It's better than almost everything on In Utero
Will you ever release full original songs? I really like the snippets you put in your videos and I'm sure more of us would like to listen to maybe a whole album of your original works!
Oh baby here we go.
Fuck yeah dude this is amazing, I’m a tone freak and this is incredibly satisfying! I had a huge tone journey and found my holy grail tone, and this is YOUR holy grail tone, congrats man this is a fucking accomplishment 🔥
What’s the song at 12:05?
12:18 that song sounded awesome?
Is that available anywhere?
What’s the name of the song which starts at 11:50 and where can I listen to it?
have you found it?
@@zygis881 no, check Aaron’s pinned comment
First gear video I've seen that looks like it was filmed with legit film production cameras. Audio is great as well. Thanks so much for this!
Perfect cinematography along with an incredibly detailed journey of rediscovering nirvana history, this video was crazy, the effort into building a totally new amp 1:1 to Earnie’s, the American idiot tone surprised me but Rape Me literally blew me away I was in awe sounds 100% the same even without the aluminium guitar, so much has been discovered and this is a gift to Nirvana fans, extremely grateful to Earnie, Steve, you and everybody who contributed in this project, very excited about the U47! Love you and your videos! A sincere thank you for keeping Nirvana alive.
I always love reading your comments, its been a journey, you've been here since the beginning, thanks for all the love and support!!
I can tell everyone exactly how to make this amplifier. Marshall put out an alternate JMP super bass circuit in the late 70s with a baxandall tone circuit. Just find that schematic and duplicate it - you will have a clean Marshall plexi circuit just like this one.
Here is the schematic, it’s the 2nd alternative preamp. If you notice one gain stage is unused in this circuit. www.schematicheaven.net/marshallamps/jmp_lead_50w_100w.pdf
Enjoyed the video, thank you! Can you tell me what the music at 12:00 is?
My skin was tingling when you got the tone just right, you can feel the connection to the music in that exact tone at some core emotional level. Thanks for taking us on the journey with you.
Hey Aaron, hope this message finds you well. Man…I’ve been following this journey you’ve been on, from pretty close to the beginning.
Well done brotha. Super cool stuff. Also love (as many do) the video journal style and overall production value of the content. I also appreciate that you don’t bombard your audience w/ unnecessary videos just to maintain “consistent content output”. It makes your content more interesting and valuable when a video is posted, as it contains an actual development. Feel like that makes the content a bit more special when it’s launched. Anyways, above and beyond all that, I’ve also loved the grape me tone for along time and whenever it’s come on have wondered what made it sound so distinct when they tracked it. I’m not sure if this’ll be useful but I wanted to offer something anecdotal for consideration. Granted it might be a little too late, but if you haven’t already completed the IR sessions yet at Lang’s studio..throw that Coles 4038 on the 2x12. I saw a 4038 in the b-roll and thought I’d throw it out there as conjecture..that mic absolutely has a sound. It’s dark and has a good low end thump to it. The intro guitar has that dark, subdued top, smooth mid, and full low/low-mid (that somehow remains really clear) tonality that I’ve always associated w/ that intro gtr track. Suffice to say this is simply a suspicion…but I think it’d be worth a shot. The intro guitar is pretty dark, a little scoopy, and the sonic signature of that mic to me at least checks off all the boxes for what we hear on the record. Obviously it’s not all the mic, signal chains are cumulative but…might be worth a try.
Cheers,
- Izzy
Hey Izzy, thanks for all the awesome words, that means so much! You're right about the 4038, it's an absolute god of a mic. It sounds huge on everything, Don't worry I will definitely throw it on the 2x12
Hey man I was wondering if you can send me the plan for the aluminium guitar 😂 I want to make one to because your ones are probably going to be expensive 😂🎉
Thank you for the great content. A new fan. My take out: kurt cobain was a tone wizard like Van Halen.
Hi @aaronrash what is the song that kicks in at 12:03 please?
I’ve been binge watching your channel over and over again for the past few days and this popped up in my notifications ❤
dude, you should get the "Kurt Cobain" medal for doing all this fantastic research and great videos. fantastic info and entertaining videos full of golden secrets. I fell short, I think you should be stroked by a jaguar guitar's neck in your shoulder and be granted as a Nirvana Knight by a left handed musician, being dubbed as "protector of Nirvana's legacy!. Amazing and precise tone for Rape Me. Perfect. Nice Song at the end!!! great!
Yes! New vid! Keep up the amazing work!
First time I've heard someone say a Mesa Boogie Studio 22 Preamp sounded awful.
the intro to this is so good i had to learn it.
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im not able to explain the rhythm with words so you’ll have to figure that out yourself
☹️sorry
hi, cool video! How about making a video about the telecaster kurt used in 1992?
Dude keep em coming no matter what it's about love your style/channel! Been waiting for a while for this 😂
Yooo when’s the IR pack coming out. I’m so excited.
Just think about Kurt watching from the sky above seeing a young man doing everything to chase his guitar sound. He would be proud of you Aaron! Superb video as always :)
Beautiful video, what's the song at 4:30 and 12:30?
These videos are so good man. All I know is that you have a whole army of people wanting to get their hands on the IR pack and Guitar. Proud of you bro this is quality content
I just came across this video through a friend and my gosh…
There’s just something about it that hooked it to me. The production, the transitions, the story behind it has such a mystique and special kind of mood around it that is just absolutely wonderful.
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this
The moment i saw american idiot on the screen at 7:42 I was so excited man. PLEASE MORE GREEN DAY (btw do you have the pulsonic greenbacks in there?)
Yep those are the pulsonics! I think billie tracked with v30's though
@Aaron Rash. This is such a good video my man, But I'm just wondering why you didn't se the John Veleno aluminium guitar? Because that alone was pretty close the the tone itself and with the amp/cab it could be closer (I believe) But your the Professional so tell me!
It's funny, I thought I was the only one on Earth who loved that grain of the clean tones on In Utero, never being able to find it again. You are a god to me for investigating all this research!!
Thank you Dave! Yeah it reminds me of a guitar coming through my grandmas AM radio, truly unique!
@@AaronRash until today I always thought it was like a 10w practice amp
@@AaronRash ahaha there is something of that order there! I don't know what you think about it but I find that we get closer to this sound in the live on French television of "Nul Part Ailleurs" (just 30 years ago), the clean tone of Rape Me is really excellent and yet it's not at all the same equipment that is used, what do you think? This tone makes me so crazy lol. At the end of your video I also wanted to point out that your acoustic composition, I love it, the sound is so pure, you have a real treasure in front of you, this microphone... I'm impatiently waiting for your impulse responses my friend, at the end of your video it's not clear what's written because it advertises your avatar and a video to watch, so it hides but I I understood that it was going to be released shortly!!
@@eddominatesthat is a pretty common way to do it so in lieu of some white whale amp, that’s what I would do.
Hey Aaron. quick question about the velenos; how much should we expect them to cost? There's a company called Aluminati Guitars and their Veleno reissue costs $8.6k, so I'm trying to see if you'll offer better prices, more affordable y'know?
i cant wait for the day you release some of your original stuff its so good!! love the cinematography n everything on this as always
No Aluminum guitar?
Mr. Rash has came to us with another vid 🙏. you're like a blessing to the nirvana community man, thank you for everything you're doing. the clean tone is sooo amazing, eargasm. looking forward to new videos!!
Intriguing video, thanks for doing the research! Do you suggest that this amp was used on the songs that used very clean tone, such as Heart-Shaped Box, Rape Me, Pennyroyal Tea and Sappy, since the clean sounds weren't probably overdubbed but the same track resulted in clean and distorted tones? Which distortion pedal was paired with it? Then the overdub tracks for these songs were maybe done with the Quad, which at least on HSB is audibly more distorted even without a distortion pedal, similarly as on some songs like Very Ape?
And I want to add, it's amazing to me to find out new stuff 30 years after the music was made. I was a huge Nirvana guitar nerd 20-25 years ago and wrote the tabs to all songs and studied all the gear stuff, but we had very limited resources. Again, huge thanks for doing all this!
dude your dedication and persistence are mind boggling to me. I'm so proud of you for finally getting it though, after reaching for the tone for so long.
Damn I need that song at 4:40 yet nothing is in the description nor none of the comments.
That little bit of a green day song was a nice surprise
(As a green day fan)
Also would you ever consider doing full covers of these songs Just for the fun of it? Assuming youtube doesn't take it down I'd personally love to see something like that
Does anybody know the song playing at 12:18?
OMG! This is so amazing! What a great story. Thank you so much for all the effort that went into making this video. I think it's amazing that you were able to create an identical amp. I had no idea that there were kits out there in the world! I look forward to everything else you post. Thank you for posting!
The real secret to recreating Kurt's guitar tones is the incredible support of your awesome wife.
My GOD. That IS it!!! The back to backs are like the same exact recording!!!
Can you/we convince Earnie to release the schematics!? Please!
man you're incredible you really show how much love you put into those videos and in music, sincerely thanks man
Recreate That Tone: Nirvana - RFUS
That’s DEAD ON. such a great video.
yeah thats crazy lol. sounds distorted without being distorted, y'know what I'm sayin??
bro is so accurate that this video is at risk for copyright infringement