Recreate That Tone: Here's the secret to completely nailing Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit
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- čas přidán 6. 11. 2022
- Nirvanas hit single that shook the industry - Smells like teen spirit. Here's how to create the guitar tone for the legendary Nirvana song.
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I reported him so his account should be deleted, hopefully he'll quit. Thanks!
I got contacted by him and i knew it was a scam!!!
Amen
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@@Arkaitz.M.A It's not the same guy, they're both in Nigeria but from different parts. This scam is common and happens to many different CZcamsrs, they're almost never the same guy.
It's so crazy, the distorted part sounds 100% identical to the original, great video as always
Literally the only difference I can hear is what I think is a slight scoop in the upper mids but it could just be a placebo effect or something
I would love to hear isolated guitar track back to back
I love this channel and nirvana but I disagree slightly 😊
Honestly might be only the room it was recorded in/the final mix with all the instruments, probably just some eq'ing differences for the final mix, this is spot on@@Snandra66
@@Snandra66i think any difference is down to mixing and mastering at this point
Aaron, were you born on 5 april 1994?
After a long time, It Finally came. Now we gotta wait for heart shaped box.
(I said "years" at first, yet this series only started 11 months ago. I changed it to "a long time" after Aaron pointed it out)
let's go it!!!
But I only posted my first guitar vid 11 months ago 😂. HSB is coming I promise
@@AaronRash I just noticed I said years 😆
That's what she said haha! Sorry bad joke ✌️
@@jensk4140Easy there, Michael.
Yo! It's my birthday today, Thanks Aaron! I was 8 years old when I got into Nirvana, now I'm 15 and there still my favorite band 🤘🏻
Bro happy birthday
Happy birthday my G
Happy birthday 🥳
Happy Birthday Luca!!!
Welcome to the 15 gang
Absolutely stunning ! (like the others )
N o w .
Do
Heart Shaped Box .
Thanks! I willllll
@@AaronRash and Oh, The Guilt/Curmudgeon
Oh the guilt would be Awesome!!!... It's a really underrated song that some people don't know but it's 1 of my faves...
Someone just as obsessed with Nirvana but way more productive, I love it!! Great content man, look forward to more
the mustang he spoke about in the journal im almost certain isnt the competition mustang, judging by the time period. More than likely the CBS blue one used in the In Bloom video and for designing the jagstang and he had another jaguar that he had used for designing the jagstang, which is mentioned in the journals with the serial number, but im not sure which that one is referring to.
Also, that sounded spot on! Ivvev got a 94//95 V30 cab and ive alwayys loved it man
Probably so man - He just said late 60's mustang in his journal. Mosrite could have been possible too but it was stollen that first week of recording Nevermind
@@AaronRash yeah very true, if only there was more pictures/footage from sound city studio :(
your videos got me into tone recreations and the whole culture behind it. thank you so bro
A really cool idea that I think would be cool, is to basically reimagine songs with like different gear or songs that didn't really get a (publicly released) studio recording.
True
Hell yeah
There’s a band called Courtesy out of Wisconsin that did a full electric version of Opinion off of that with the lights out demo and it WHIPS ass, it’s so good.
Great idea
Awesome vid Aaron, it’s always a good day when you upload. I like the history and knowledge you put into these vids it definitely helps guys out like me looking for these tones!
holy shit aaron! you actually did it! i think i asked you to make a video on this recreation, anyway, was waiting for it!
Another amazing tone recreation by you! Completely nailed the tone this time, it's clear what guitars were used this time around.
Agreed. But i think for the solo he just used another amp or speaker. But maybe i’m wrong
For me, the key has always been to capture that Fender single-coil jangle, which is quite present in the Nevermind album. Also, thanks for helping with the OTHER key: the speakers!! Glenn Fricker over at Spectre Sound Studios will love to see that! lol
Great work, love to see these recreation videos!!
I didn't realize the mustang sold for 4.5 million dollars making it the second most expensive guitar in the world, only best by another guitar owned by Kurt, the MTV unplugged Acoustic
Hey man I just found your channel. Please keep doing what you are doing. Right at a year of playing and doing these deep dives. I love everything about you channel.
Amazing work (as always)!
Thank you so much 😀
You nailed solo tone dude, it's perfect
such a cool channel!! looking forward for the next tone
YOU !!! finally get the tone !!! thank you
i always knew the clean tones definety sounded like single coils accross all cleans, and more of a vox bright tone than a fender. Nevermind era cleans sound dry and flat but with a tasteful addition of brightness but people were always obsessed with the kurt cobain always using Humbuckers live.
LETS GOOOO CANT WAIT TO WATCH THIS AARON
Great video man! I'm usually not the one to correct things on other people videos, but the mustang story on Kurt's Journals refers to the brown "soundgarden" mustang Kurt had in the old days, which was indeed in really bad shape and was missing most parts, so Kurt fitted it with a bunch of univox parts from a hi flier he had destroyed a few days or weeks before getting it.. Other than that, awesome video like always!!
Yeah, absolutely, it makes sense because Kurt only got the Comp mustang like, a very short time before recording Nevermind, though, that too was very cheap.
Your videos are so good
They never disappoint
Love love love your videos man! It’s an exciting day when one drops! This was amazing but I have to say, I think you’re clean intro recreation from The Butterfly Effect video was actually a little closer than this. Possibly that’s the difference with real amp vs plug in?
Tus vídeos son geniales, he estado mucho tiempo viciado a nirvana y ver esto es simplemente arte
Man your hability is amazing keep going like that
Amazing!!! Identical sounds
I WAS WAITING FOR THIS ONE THIS IS SO AWESOME is the tone recreations back??
Do you think you’ll ever make non nirvana based videos? Like smashing pumpkins would be really cool. Or just like 90s stuff. Love your channel so much and your video style.
black hole sun recreation video would be epic
@@-jank-willsonoh my god yes
Holy shit, completely nailed it!!
It's a really unique tone on it's own but it sits amazingly well in that mix.
So freakin cool! Love your content bro
Ayy it's you
Man. Aaron that solo tho! So fucken cool bro.. keep these videos coming!
just impressive...!!!! Thanks a lot for what you do!
Thank you for the tips. Appreciate it so much...
Hey Aaron video was sick, could you do a video on your filming gear, editing and cinematography tips ?
Great job, man! Nailing the way he plays is tough!
Amazing job bro!
i cant stop watching your intro is so good
Me too!!!
soo good man-whenever you upload I get so hyped. On a plain soon?
For sure!
I just bought an original Sansamp I'm having a blast thanks for the graphic eq tip!
Te quedó increíble 😻, sigue así 👍
dude... how. Also love the "work in progress" tape on the stang haha
That Seattle view vibe is heaven on earth. 😇🤗 This is so awesome yet amazing. 😊☺️
Great work
This is super interesting. V30 i could never guess that one. Thanx a lot
Great video! I was able to get really close with a UAFX Dream '65 pedal with the vintage speakers they modeled. Once you get your speaker situation figured out it would be amazing if you could try and capture your rig using the new IK Multimedia Tonex software (or have someone loan you a Kemper :) I would buy your profiles / rigs for sure! Keep up the great work! Looking forward to the next video!
Oh awesome! I have that pedal. Did you use a preset or did you dial it in?
@@moezkhan I prob used one of the clean presets, but dialied it in and also tweaked within daw.
That Mustang that Kurt and Krist bought was the Mustang Kurt used during the "Bleach" era, NOT the Competition Mustang. The "Bleach" Mustang was the one shown on the '88 Aberdeen rehearsal video that was part of the "With The Lights Out" set. Kurt got the Competition Stang much later.
Nice, nailed it!
Seattle has become a character in Nirvana's story by now. This moody, hazy, gritty city definitely inspired Kurt in some way..
Seattle definitely has the vibes
Awesome insight! When you get your speaker issue resolved please create some of your own impulse responses for us to buy! 🤟
The Mustang mentioned in the journals is the one which was used on Bleach. Krist told the same story in april 90, I think he mentioned it was sanded down, IIRC.
Great cover
Great channel, man. Would love to see your guitar recording process with the Twin Apollo you have to get the sounds you are getting! Do you just go straight through it to your daw or use any unison plugins?
Every day you upload, it's a good day
Thank you that means a lot!
Factual
Sounds identical please do drain you next
your guitar skills have gotten better and I think you should start a band with sum people but I know you live in an apartment and renting studios are ducking expensivebut I think you'd be great with your tone and your vocals. I'd fucking love it
Sry about typos I'm in a hurry
Haha thanks man!!
Great video - only thing to note is, there are about 6 - 10 guitar tracks on the SLTS track itself - Butch was into doing multi tracks etc. So it's hard to replicate that tone live of course.
there was only two
I picked up a ‘66 Mustang a couple of weeks ago and it sounds incredible through my early 70’s Twin Reverb. Legit the closest I’ve ever gotten to Cobain’s tone.
Goddamn! Ur job is awesome
I could be wrong but I'm thinking the guitar was bought in Olympia at the evergreen college campus, they lived in Olympia before Seattle and evergreen students are sometimes called greeners.
Hi Aaron. I appreciate a lot your video and that's always very interesting. You should specificaly work on the intro of Smells like teen spirit. Absolutly nobodies on youtube doesn't know how to recreate that specific tone. I even spend lot of time and lot patience to recreate ; playing that with a Vox amp or the Mesa Boogie studio preamp but that's simply impossible. I really ask myself how that intro tone was created and I would be the first interested to see you making a video about that specific part of the song. Thank you !
Great Job... Awesome
Perfect
YOU ARE THE BEST!
no you are!
Wow, this video kicks ass
Hey Aaron! Love these videos all of them have been awesome.
Although this one has completely changed my opinion on what guitar/ guitars were used on SLTS. I have been convinced for the last 15 years that it was a Strat on the opening riff, as my 77 Mustang could never cut it for that tone.
Thanks for sharing, keep up the cool work.
When I started finding my tone I tried expensive boutique pedals and always went back to using the boss ds-1 I had bought first.
hes the best in the business
Factual
Please Aaron would you make a recreate "aneurysm" ?
That would be amazing !!!
Merry Christmas form Belgium !!!!
Another great video. As you have pointed out the speaker is really important with recreating the tones for Nevermind but what is your take on mics? I read they used a variety SM57, AKG414, U87s and even 421s. Which do you think may have been used on this song?
Sounds like the Sennheiser to me
Perfect Sound !!! Thanks for telling us how to get that tone and how maybe Kurt did !!
But wait... where is your Squier Jag.?? I think the parts are now living in youre new Jag.... will the Squier Jag come back??? I'm confused and sad... ✌️😓🤣
The one thing you can do to totally transform this sound further, is to play the riff starting with an upstroke and barring the A,D annnnd G string.
Ese nivel de sonido es espectacularmente igual al original
Muy buen contenido ❤
Y la producción de este tipo es literal de película
Hey Aaron! Nice video as always, I just want to tell you 2 things:
Could you explain to me how to paint my guitar with sharpies again? I'm not a native English speaker and I didn't fully understand when you said it in that video.
- your original riffs are extremely cool, I think I'm not the only one who encourages you to record and release them!! It sounds so sick!!
Keep those cool videos coming!!
Thanks! The sharpie method isn't really a good solution man, it smears off over time. If you want to do it, you just draw on something plastic with a blue sharpie and then take a alcohol soaked cotton swab and rub it in the blue sharpie and buff onto the guitar
@@AaronRash thank you very much man, I'll try it anyways because I really liked how it looked haha
can't wait for the version with the pulsonic speakers, shit will be even more spot on
Hi! Very good video and extremely good Channel! Can you make a video about the history of the small clone e the models through the decades? Thank you!!
Amazing job Aaron sounds as close as the recording as you could get unlike NirvanaGuitars.
That journal entry might have been about a different stang, he got the competition stang at Voltage Guitars in Hollywood. Earnie Bailey confirmed a bunch of details when it was up for auction
Woooo!!!!!!🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
holy fucking shit. this sounds amazing
Hey, Do you make music? I searched up your name on spotify and random people came up. Just wondering cus your riffs that you play at the start of some of your videos are sick. Keep it up!
so underrated
Watching this is like looking to the past through hardware
hazzar someone who agrees with me the new ds1s are pretty much the same, i got a silver screw 80's one for $15 and sold it for like $100 then bought a second hand new one ;)
great work dude! you should be a producer
Rick Beato recently interviewed Butch Vig on his channel. There they talk about how he and Nirvana recorded Teen Spirit. Butch says that for all the clean tones they used a Vox amp.
Hey Aaron! How about deciphering the magic behind Chris’s bass tone? Then Dave’s drum tuning? Don’t stop until you have a new album
The Nevermind bass tone is all about the Gibson Ripper bass. I’ve played a couple and as soon as you scoop out a load of 800Hz and boost 3k it instantly nails it
For those of you that do not have $500+ dollars to buy pre-rola greenbacks…. There is a company called Scumback who makes replica pre-rolas. Run by a dude that apparently personally owns dozens of them and made it his work to painstakingly re-create them. I bought one and I absolutely love it. I’m in no way affiliated, but just wanted to spread the word!!!
I saw another comment here talking about how do you paint your guitar with sharpies, im wanting to paint my white classic vibe mustang to sky-blue with a sharpie I bought but im too scared to actually do so, Ive been searching it up on google but I can't find anybody else talking about it. It would be cool if you made a video about it. I love your videos and I wish I had all the gear you have and have had, will keep watching with every video you post and helps me recreate tones with the few things I have, thank you for the videos!
Thanks! The sharpie method isn't really a good solution man, it smears off over time. If you want to do it, you just draw on something plastic with a blue sharpie and then take a alcohol soaked cotton swab and rub it in the blue sharpie and buff onto the guitar
Dude that tone was insane. With out a lot of gadgets awesome. And by the way I've subscribed to a lot, a lot of guitar related videos of all kinds. And that hey telegram me you just won shit is everywhere. When I started seeing comment after comment after comment say hey TG me you just won I new then it's absolutely impossible to have 1,000 winners out of 1,500 people. Wouldn't take long to go bankrupt like that. Awesome demo man.
Hmm yours is a little thin but sounds good! Who knows what preamps were used in mixing and mastering! Either way love this channel! and I agree so much about the new V30's.
Hello. I do enjoy your videos . What is the mic you use for recording guitars? Thank you.
You should do a fine recreation for you know you’re right, I’m really interested into how to get the tone for the intro, beyond the bridge on my jag just don’t sound anything like it does in the song, I think I heard a while aback that he was used a univox but I can’t remember
I like the Journals references! He writes 65 and 67 as the years, respectively, for the Stang and Jag, so maybe this is the In Bloom video Mustang? Slab body is correct for 1965. And Kurt was rumored to have a second Jaguar that wasn’t played live.
Cobain's Scream was the tone I wanted to mimic. His vocals was so unique and different than any other band at the time. Nirvana brought the death to the hair bands like GNR. Did you try looking into the Melvin's the bands that Kurt was into. Pixies
Hey Aaron,
I'm thinking of getting a Squier Mustang and putting a Jaguar neck on it like your guitar. I think that's really cool looking. Is that a good idea (meaning, will the neck fit into the pocket on the Mustang body in your opinion?) ?
I don’t think there will ever be someone who gets closer
Phenomenal, dude. No SansAmp pedal?
He didn't use the sans amp pedal until the in utero sessions
Hey Aaron I just picked up a 72 Quad , Did you have to change the eq a lot for the in utero songs ? What are some good settings ? Thanks