: How to play like Nirvana As you may have understood by my username I'm a fan of Nirvana, I've been trying to sound like Nirvana with my amp but still haven't got the sound I want with the settings that I've tried... Any ideas

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Bear in mind that the albums are often double tracked and or have things like stereo separation effects that alter the sound from the way the band actually plays a song live. Also, microphones play a bigger role in recorded tone than average people credit.

Cobain was not known for a ton of effects: clearly he used tremolo and phaser/flanger effects on albums but in the following photo, it looks like he is only using boss "DS-2 turbo distortion" and a "Sansamp classic" amp simulator pedal. Pretty simple. It is possible some effects are in a different loop off camera.

Many guitarists simply use a chain of gain. I myself use a compressor, a special wah never off, and then a tube screamer fed into an amp that is up just enough to barely break when the pedals are off.