Anyone know what amps/effects Weezer used to record the Blue Album?????

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i read an interview with Rick Ocasek a few years back where he said they had the guitar's tone knob off and the amp really loud for the guitars

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Man you ****ing Rock!!!!! Thanks alot! That is one of the most extensive equipment descriptions I've ever seen!
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Yea Weezer has one of the best band website's, IMO. I learned a lot from that equipment page.

I've also learned that it's just about...impossible.. to duplicate that crunch.

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Yeah it is really hard to get it. Closest I can get is the general overdriven sound on songs like My Name Is Jonas.

Even then, it's still not a whole lot like the album.

Some P-90's might help.

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I was playing "Say It Ain't So" with my friends last night and I found that it sounded somewhat like what he did on the album during the chorus when I had my Rat and Big Muff going at the same time with my Les Paul. My amp's a Hot Rod Deluxe.

i have found running a big muff into a rat can get pretty close to that sound with a JB bridge humbucker. the key is to keep the tone knob low and P-90s are very important, but even weezer can't get the exact sound anymore since they don't use guitars with P-90s and the MESA amp is M.I.A.

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Pedals: Crybaby JH-1, RATII, Russian Big Muff, Fender PT-10, Rocktron Deep Blue Chorus, Danelectro Pepperoni, Johnson Echo/Delay, Roadkill distortion, Zoom 505II

Amps: Ibanez acoustic practice amp, Peavey Bandit 112

Yep, probably one of, if not the best guitar sounds ever. They are soooo heavy but really poppy and catchy too. Its funny cuz I've always loved Weezer but i remember a time in my little town back home when it wasn't "cool" to like Weezer. I know, CRAZY eh?

big muff pi into cranked ("overdriving") tube amp gets pretty close

replace the muff with a ds-1, and zero the tone knob on guitar, works pretty well too

I'm a huge =w= fan.

I've tried, and tried, and tried to nail that tone.

Eventually, the band began using POD's, and thats when I began to give up on that sound.

Now that they are recording again (with nice gear, I noticed a Diezel head in one of their sessions), I have been looking for that sound.

Surprizingly enough, I have been really liking a fuzz box in front of either my Marshall (way overdriven) or even my little Line 6 (the more I play it, the more I appreciate it).

My next step in getting his tone (I prefer the early blue era LIVE sound) is building a similar strat. Warmoth strat, Duncan 59, and a Super Distortion with NO TONE KNOB and perhaps a Black Ice cap (rumor is it River's used it on his volume knob).

Presently I'm running through a Flying V with stock pups, and they dont do too shabby, but I think my strat will get me much closer.

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i believe rivers used a diezel for their scratched sessions with rick rubin and the recent sessions that are now supposedly album 5. i'd love to have an amp like that.

i don't know why everyone wants to copy the blue strat. IMO their early live sound wasn't that great...not bad but the album crunch is far superior. live it was just a muddy wall of noise, which you can get without having that blue strat.

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Guitars: Epiphone Explorer, Ibanez Artwood

Pedals: Crybaby JH-1, RATII, Russian Big Muff, Fender PT-10, Rocktron Deep Blue Chorus, Danelectro Pepperoni, Johnson Echo/Delay, Roadkill distortion, Zoom 505II

Amps: Ibanez acoustic practice amp, Peavey Bandit 112