I found the secret to Kurt Cobain's guitar tone

Nirvana Nevemind is one of my favorite guitar tones of all time. I grew up listening to this record a lot and I spent the last year and a half figuring out how it was made. This is the holly grail cab. Hope you guys enjoy it!

[@danielgriffith3633]

Kurt had a Left-handed amp...

[@coveredinsecurity-up5uf]

What???

[@danielgriffith3633]

​@@coveredinsecurity-up5uf it's a joke man, there is no such thing lol. kurt was left handed

[@coveredinsecurity-up5uf]

@@danielgriffith3633 I know it but wow you have a such great ideas

[@timons7446]

Here are the timestamps for the speaker comparison at the end: 13:58 - 12T-75 14:10 - 12K-85 14:22 - 1965 Oxford 14:34 - 1990 Greenback 14:46 - Pulsonic Greenback

[@vlcthefish]

Pulsonic sounds great. With that said 1965 Oxfords sound amazing in different way

[@willwatkins6694]

the pulsonic def sounds the best;so much mid grit! but i think the 12K-85 is also great but its quiet in this comparison

[@justfelix6171]

For years I’ve been listen to people recreate these tones. The moment you play drain you is legitimately scared me. The Especially that clean tone. Teen spirit was exactly the same. It was absolutely mind blowing. It game he goosebumps hearing THAT tone.

[@alexkeenan5768]

Aaron my friend… you’ve done it!!!!! Congratulations this is just incredible!!!! It’s been an honor watching your channel grow. I cant wait to see your progress in a few years.

[@AaronRash]

Thanks so much!!

[@alexkeenan5768]

@@AaronRash of Course Man!!!! I already can’t wait for the next vid 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@NateT0524]

Far too many guitar players spend way too much time focusing on pickups and amps when the majority of tone lies in the speakers. They are an actual eq that have a massive impact on the tone. Great video!!

[@magraretsbane6274]

Could this mean that after Nirvana we might get a B-52’s tone series? My heart would probably stop beating if that happened, they’re one of my absolute favorites.

[@TempleOfUtopia]

Omg the ammount of work you put into this is crazy, easily one of the best guitar channels on youtube rn

[@Official_KC]

Most guitar channels are pretty hard to watch on KZbin. This one is a 10/10 for me. I don't even listen to Nirvana that often! Just a really well made channel

[@Billiamwoods]

Yeah, honestly. I hope this doesn't come out wrong but this is too much effort for a video just about Kurt Cobain's guitar tone

[@Kipa12312]

Congrats on finally getting THE Tone! It's crazy to me just how much more "correct" the vintage greenbacks sound; even after hearing how close you got in your Tone series vids.

[@robertkitto6412]

Love that you go above and beyond! Looking forward to the next video already!

[@OTOss8]

I'm glad you're back. I was wondering where you'd gone. I feel like I'm part of some special club when I watch your videos. It's hard to believe you're only at 29.5K subs because the quality of these videos is worthy of orders of magnitude more subscribers. Also, it's really cool that your wife supports your passion. It made me smile to see her helping you relic the cab. Amazing stuff.

[@AaronRash]

Haha thanks!!

[@User-jk8wq]

Dude went up nearly 1k subs in under a day

[@bleedwoodwinter]

incredible production and video as always aaron! i cant even express how amazed i am with your work and findings.

[@Christgaming_5464]

Amazing quality video as always,the drain you tone totally blew me away. Amazing to see your channel gain more traction and attention over time because it is surley deserved,keep up the amazing work as always!

[@mattvdh]

The depth and detail that you go to is really fantastic! Great job

[@temuka1616]

I’ve been here since somewhere around the the very ape video! Its amazing to watch these amazingly high quality videos as a nirvana fan! It doesn’t even feel real! It’s amazing to see how far you’ve come! Amazing milestone!

[@theshiningemerald4288]

This has to be one of my favorite videos by you, everytime you upload I learn something new

[@yungcxxp2989]

just wanna say im glad that i found ur channel man, i didnt think anyone would be so much into kurts tone like me, then i found ur channel jq's, and a couple other but you my friend have the best quality videos when it comes to it, keep up the amazing content

[@theadamtron]

Aaron, This is great video. I really appreciate you sharing your journey and attention to detail in researching this sound. I tip my hat to you my friend.

[@randymccoy2527]

This is incredible. Came across your In Bloom video and I am happy I found your channel. It's inspiring to watch your curiosity and drive to find tone. Great work!!!

[@LimaHotel807]

I can’t wait to get my hands on your impulse response pack. Love your work!

[@CaptainRon1913]

Congrats Aaron, been a fun journey. Even though I've never been a huge Nirvana fan, your quest for tone has been fascinating, which is why I've been following. Great job!

[@bigmuffmelvin7388]

Man this level of knowledge is what I crave, you knock it out of the park every time. Thank you for the time, money, energy and effort you do for tracking down Kurt’s tone

[@paulsuttmiller6025]

Can’t believe how much work and research Aaron puts into all of this. Always look forward to watching these videos. Aaron, you are the man!!! Keep it up 👍

[@carlossuarez8310]

So satisfying seeing your work . Chasing with perseverance and finally getting your goal. I’m happy for you, I know that feeling after chasing a guitar tone for so long and finally nailing it down. Is the best feeling in the world!

[@AaronRash]

Thanks Carlos! I'm just happy to share it with everyone

[@indifferentuniverse3991]

You are an inspiration to all tone chasers. Thank you!

[@ChaseSBE]

I was watching the tone recreation series as this was uploaded goated work you're doing my guy

[@statc0313]

This is awesome, you put in so much work and found something really cool, i love your videos and i literally stalk ur account waiting for new videos to come out

[@Yosephhhh]

Man, that’s a pure gold what you’ve done here. I am serious. Love it. Thanks a lot, man. Great job ❤️

[@d896yavaix]

Holy, your videos never cease to surprise me, the amount of effort you put into this... wow. I admire your dedication so much, you work has been pivotal for all of us that have spent decades searching for that SWEET Nevermind tone. Thank you man, I want to hug you.

[@AnthonyStudio]

Thanks for sharing this! I am blown away by how much effort you put into this; absolutely love to see it. Also, the pulsonics sound phenomenal - balanced and mid-forward in a pleasant way. Glad you finally discovered the tone, that's got to feel incredible.

[@FurkatVakhabov]

just wow! great job!

[@jonjames1998]

Amazing work!!! TYSM for doing this. Keep it up⭐️🔥

[@ronaldlatwis8714]

I love your tireless effort to help us rabid Kurt C fans to truly appreciate and understand the importance of tone!!!!! You are special and I totally love you guitar playing! I would love to hear some of your music! Hope you are doing great and thanks!!! I have been making music for 25 years and I’m a kurdt disciple and I have been chasing that tone/sound for just as long I still use DS-1 and Rotovibe when possible people don’t really understand frequencies and tone like you I have found! I feel blessed to have stumbled across your KZbin path! P

[@jensk4140]

Awesome man! Can't wait for the vid about the quad.

[@kiiraa17830]

I've been following you since your first tone recreation video) You're the only video I'm really waiting for, I go in every day in the hope that you released something

[@stevemehan7276]

Your attention to detail is amazing!

[@JumpStop1]

I really liked that video, you put so much time and effort ... and money into getting this tone, this is super appreciated! so cool!

[@jakebaker1051]

I get excited when I see your notifs pop up not just for the video, but for the mini song you put at the start of each one as well

[@tamtenmateusz9475]

Another great video !! ❤

[@hellraizer322]

I love my 1979 Peavey cabs and mixer/amp head! Great video! I wish you luck on your quest to achieve the Nirvana sound!

[@Juderainwater]

I love your channel man. I found someone who’s as obsessed with Kurt’s music as me

[@budgetsouls3702]

@Aaron Rash your intros are something else, theyre so amazing. you should make an album of just the guitar!

[@GersonGuzmanD]

Great video Aaron, your search for the tone is amazing, congratulations.

[@mrsapi9157]

Aaron, you don’t know how much i love you and how i appreciate all your videos, keep going

[@123uzuz]

Beautiful production. Sweet content. Love from Australia 🇦🇺

[@theplaylistchannel6300]

That's badass dude. Appreciate the effort and the high quality work

[@siets96]

Wow! Congrats on finding the speakers man! Really cool you take us allong and make these videos!

[@goutzilla26]

The Pulsonics sound so sick!!! I'm really glad I discovered your channel. Not just because I'm a huge Nirvana geek. You've really changed my understanding of how tone is produced. I used to think the amp mattered more than the speakers, but you have proven otherwise. You've really flipped the script on the rampant amp fetishism prevailing within the guitar community. It also reminds me of seeing Nirvana at a small club in L.A. a few months prior to Nevermind's release when Kurt didn't even play through a guitar amp. He just ran a SansAmp pedal into a P.A. amplifier (a Crown, I believe), and it was the loudest, most toasty and saturated distortion I'd ever heard... absolutely immersive but not shrill. Very similar to the wall of sound Vig captured on Drain You. I appreciate the great lengths you have gone to find the Grail and document your quest. Great job, Sir!

[@felixallstarbass7663]

Bro your channel had about doubled in side since I have been watching it's soooo cool to see how far you have grown I adore the videos you make there is hardly anything like what you do on yt keep up the awesome work 👍

[@flinchey6962]

Such a well put together video clean tone wow

[@simonaustin1136]

Dude I gotta say I appreciate your dedication to tone chasing so much. I’ve been in this exact same scenario with a guitarist named Gotoh Masafumi of Asian Kung Fu Generation. Chasing his tone gave me something to work towards over the pandemic distracting me from the chaos around. Almost 3 years later I’m closer than ever and should be securing the exact amp in the next few days. It’s super rewarding when you properly mic everything up and it just sounds like that tone you’ve been after. Cheers to you my friend, you’re doing a great thing.

[@AnaObscura]

weeb tone lets fucking goooo. I did the exact same thing over the pandemic with Uehara Futoshi from Maximum the Hormone's bass tone. It's soooo rewarding to actually get close and i learned so much

[@admiralvivi]

Gotoh had such a great sound

[@towardstar]

ummmm please share

[@towardstar]

I've been fiending after a coaltar of the deepers tone but there's no information in English so I pretty much didn't even try anymore.

[@simonaustin1136]

​@@towardstar You've basically gotta 1:1 recreate his rig and match his settings: - Fender Vibroking - P90 Guitar - Ibanez TS808 - Additional clean boost for more push

[@funnyarabhalalman194]

How do these videos get even better every time? Amazing stuff dude.

[@nicholaswilday2059]

Awesome vid mate. Really awesome. 🔥

[@soundofmusic94]

At last! you are making history Aaron! Cheers from Chile

[@imzeflash4700]

this guy is so awesome. aaron really inspires me and i love these videos. i felt so mad when i found out the factory burned down, but the end made me so happy

[@stanstan238]

This channel is perfect, thx for it !

[@allcapsbeats]

Just discovering this channel. Amazing work. Beautifully shot. Your channel is going to blow up.

[@krstnrose8133]

Aaron Aaron buddy so great to hear and see this result. Interested to hear the aluminium guitar. Awesome video great that your back can't wait for the next one.

[@adilO.o]

Amazing Aaron!! Wow the amount of work and dedication you have put into this, is mind blowing (almost scary). Guitar speakers rabbit hole can be a nightmare, great that you have found a speaker that works with your setup !!

[@adilO.o]

One last thing Aaron, no doubts that you have spent a lot in this journey and will continue doing so. I am sure a lot of people would contribute (I would) if you release some quality profiles in Kemper or ToneX. You would make a lot of happy guitar players :) Nolly Getgood did something like this with his huge V30s Oversized collection. Just saying 😇

[@madsenamplification]

Love the experimenting and love of tone. Also the cool cinematic way you shoot videos is great! I want to harness some of that for my own channel!

[@georgefreeman7271]

This is amazing man keep doing what ur doing it’s great

[@ferdsSLiDe1981]

Hey man! BRILLIANT Stuff! Love your setting and the way you position these videos! Still a HUGE NIRVANA fan!

[@makarov76]

Dude this is so cool, great vid.

[@waynegram8907]

AARON RASH, thank you so much for searching for this because I have always wondered how kurt cobain got his tone because I was never able to get it using various cabinets. This is amazing how you went down the rabbit hole and figured it out. I really believe that Butch Vig and Kurt together created and invented a new tonality and style of music that was different from punk music, glam 80s rock, Metal music. To me Kurt Cobain is a hybrid of the melvins tone, 80's dinosaur Jr tone, punk rock and Josh Hommes Desert stoner rock tone. Kurt and butch vig inverted a new tone that was a hybrid of all those but the melvins tone, dinosaur Jr started in the 80's plus you had Josh Hommes Desert stoner rock tone which Kurt Cobain had to be influenced by and take those tones to a new level which the album nevermind guitar tones did. Those Pulsonic Greenbacks have the punch grunge tone which I hope someone will make a guitar pedal to nail those nirvana nevermind tones.

[@618recordingco.5]

Holy, not Holly in your titles. Just so you know, love the videos. Great deep dives!

[@ianmargolycz]

Very cool stuff, Aaron! Nice work! 🤘

[@rez6229]

The king is here! but no joke Aaron you are amazing and an inspiration for us all, thank you! congrats on 30k btw!

[@EduardoAntonio-iz1lo]

A chase of a life, fantastic Aaron!! 🎉🎉🎉

[@lassimannila1547]

Finally!!! I have waited many weeks for new video!! Just have to wait to get kids to sleep and open a beer and watch that video! Youre best, Aaron!

[@johndogwater]

You are certifiably insane, this is amazing!

[@randallsavage4135]

Unrivaled drive! You and the tone lol. Your the man thank you, like crap man your amazing and its crazy how fast you've gotten here to me

[@loobarris]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THAT YOU NAILED THE CLEAN TONES. Drain you is my favorite song from Nevermind and definitely in my top 3 favorite Nirvana songs and it’s that clean tone at the start that made it for me. Can you maybe do a full video for the Drain You tone?

[@chrisbryanm]

My man, those pulsonic sound like a wall of sound, so different from the other ones, fuller and aggressive. Amazing video.

[@overdrivekill7]

Been waiting for this video since youtube recommended your channel couple months back

[@Matt-vt9jz]

I don’t comment often, and I have barely started the video, but I’ve been following you for a while and I mean to say that your videos are some of the most well made, cinematographic as well as greatly informative videos on this platform, I love it

[@raygen578]

YES YES YES FINALLY A NEW VIDEO IVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG 😭😭

[@tomphil5216]

This is just amazing. I'm lost for words

[@SkyBoundMP3]

Just got the notif, havent watched it yet, i can just tell by the title ITS GONNA BE GOOD!!

[@isaiahgamervw7306]

Amazing video man!!!

[@BERLEBLE]

When I watch your content, it’s like I am watching a movie! That’s how good the editing is! We appreciate you putting so much effort into your videos in the year of 2023. It’s ridiculous that the world is now okay with TikTok being the norm (not even real entertainment) Keep doing what you’re doing and never get discouraged. Know that you have a loyal fan base who appreciate your art and get excited everytime you upload!

[@exikatorus]

Love your videos, they're just the best thing on KZbin I know. Looking forward to see another amazing things you do and praying to win a lottery or something like that to afford similar stuff.

[@lucamenegazzi2227]

I really appreciate your videos and your seeking tones phylosophy .. greetings from italy

[@joebeatty1453]

This is a really well done video.

[@StrudlePie]

Pulsonic by a mile!!! You are my spirit KZbinr.... Thanks for all the pains and length man!

[@victorbrb]

It's amazing to see your subscriber count grow. I started watching your videos when you had 3k. 😀

[@justin.themix]

Earned my sub, Amazing video man.

[@JimijaymesProductions]

Always been a massive nirvana fan but its videos like this that show how much. Clean love silver alnicos, dirty love g12m-25s always have.

[@jeffcorreia4515]

Wow ! The sound man does it ! Definitely Pulsonic is it ! Thx for the research, Aaron

[@Ghetto-Yeti]

Great work figuring that out. Greenbacks! I’d heard that a long time ago but I never saw or heard anyone prove it. I also love that you confirmed the AC30 for the clean tone. It’s what I’ve come to use because it sounds like Kurt’s clean sound. I had no idea that’s actually what he used. I figured it was the Gospel but had no idea about the vox. Thank you to your total need to figure it out and for not giving up. Awesome!

[@candiacristian]

Awesome Job dude, congrats, those pulsonic are beasts!

[@sevvenass]

What’s absolutely incredible to me, at least to my ears through headphones, is that the pulsonic cones have all of the characteristics of the other compared speakers in them, but with the addition of their own brightness and a very specific and well detailed crunch. Seriously great job, Aaron. I’ve got a Super Six Reverb and now all I want to do is yank the stock fender speakers out and throw some vintage greenbacks in there!

[@rk28984]

Love your obsession with tone and with speakers. Shows again that speakers are one of the most important components of your rig.

[@jasonvrabe]

Nice work man!

[@tylenoljunkie3231]

Man this is crazy. you really nailed it, dead-on. Impressive as fuck, you should be proud. Your content is such high quality. Please keep doing this.

[@cduronm]

I found your channel by accident ….great job bro thanks for pursuing this long forgotten tone…

[@SteeveSpeed]

I dont know why, but the intro sound till 1:12 made me very emotional thinking about Kurt’s death. I mean the sound is so on the emotion side to me and griped me inside in a complete different mood or universe from the first note. I did not feel anything like this son often, maybe in the early days when I was a kid listening to Nirvana for the first time. It is almost scary man.

[@savoirfaire8979]

*I really appreciate your cinematic style, Aaron. The visuals are dramatic and interesting. Cinematic background a little loud, but that’s minor.*

[@mrduckboibones]

Great work Aaron! I've started collecting speakers since watching your channel and it's been a great journey. Alas a pulsonic is out of the price range for most people. It'd be awesome to watch you hunt down modern new alternatives that work for Nevermind tones!

[@sampathsnair507]

Great work man

[@vkuolema79]

what a nice fucking clip. I grew up with Nevermind and Nirvana. and i started doing the tone chase a few years ago but then i left it due to change of plans. As a huge old nirvana fan i really appreciate your effort. Congrats man! the sound is spot on! the low end thump is there. I do wanna hear a bassman head with those speakers cause it reminds me of "drain you".

[@mynameisnotjohn3311]

aaron, you are a legend, the music and cinematic cuts on these videos are the best things ive ever seen, you didnt shoot this like a netflix documentary, you shot it BETTER than a netflix documentary, in fact you NEED a netflix documentary!