Nirvana Tone: Roseland Ballroom | Riffs, Settings & History

[@misada7744]

Yet again another fucking good recreation video

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Thank you so much!

[@sconni666]

My friend worked at Roseland at the time. Saw it first row balcony. Fun times.

[@jackkp9633]

Was it loud

[@sconni666]

@@jackkp9633 huh?

[@jackkp9633]

@@sconni666 was it a loud show?

[@confusedcat-sm9cy]

​@@jackkp9633no shit

[@itstcj]

god i love this show, it's so iconic and you recreated the tone so well, much props

[@NirvanaGuitars]

I love it too, one of my favorites mostly cause of that mustang 🎸 thanks for watching!!

[@Arkaitz.M.A]

That guitar screams with pure rage + you add the mad story behind that show. Big thumb up👍

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Thank you! The red on red does look pretty mean 😈

[@5eba115]

I don’t know how to feel that kurt was considered to have literally died before he played this show, one that is considered to be one of the bands best. Grateful he survived I suppose

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Definitely changes your perspective when you learn that

[@NickManEA]

@@NirvanaGuitars sort of feels like he lived as a zombie thereafter until sadly of course..

[@PalmettoStateSirens]

@@NickManEA He was a zombie on the European tour sadly. Screw heroin.

[@SalandFindles]

It was said that he OD'd right before the show, but that's been proven as a lie. It was multiple hours before the show started. Dunno exactly how long though.

[@thecannaviking]

Actually, for a junkie that is nothing to it. Me,personally have never died cuz I was never able to overdose,tho I use about 5grams a day,yeah I know . 1 grams fix,tho the tar is a bit diffrent than the luxurious Afghanistan Brown we have here in Europe. I quit heroin 15 years ago and didnt use for more than 8-9yrs. But since 2001 when my first "friends" ,107 have past. But I can tell you how it feels. FUCKING GREAT! Heroin is the medicine of death. A heroin addict want to creep closer to death each time you takes it bcuz it is so good to just drowse off,stop breath ...it's the best death you can get. Kurt was nothing more than a regular junkie who clocked out when his time comes ,about age 26-28. Ofc if ur not so fkn tolerant as I am. Oh I still use opioids,but legally and the 80x stranger fast acting shit. I have seen ppl died,I have carried ppl out of my appartment to get room for the ambulance personel to workmy fiance chose to die that way almost 20yrs ago. Enough ab that. I can just say how it feels,how it is and when ppl overdose. They arent dead. To be dead you need to have 0 heart rate wich you need to kick that heart into a new electric cycle and only way to do that is defibrilator. Courtney used Asrenaline or epenephrine, wich means he was just not breathing and started to turn blue on his lips. Thats not dying ,faaar from. He was in a deep comatose sleep ,minutes from being dead. If you die,you are dead. I know this might be hard to understand how someone can do a good show afterwards? Bcuz it's just like he had taken a nap. You dont notice it much. U might be gruppe cuz ghe naloxone still blocks the mu-opioid receptors. And a head ache from the naloxone and epenephrine mixture I'm pretty fkn sure that cunt of a wife had with her . Sorry for choosing of words there I'm not that stoked about crazy drug fueled loud mouth witches like Courtney. And the ampunt Lurt used,like 100usd worth of black tar (black tar back then maxed out on 30% purity) so I guess that would be a 500-750mg dose + tho black tar consumed the west Coast of the US it was fairly expensive. (Here I live,has been the heroin overdose capitol of Europe) since we get a fckload of very pure stuff. Kurt had never been able to shoot up the same anount as the street purity I used was 54%. Normal stepped on street heroin has a purity of 14% ,but not here,only reason they step on it here is OD deaths are bad business. Heroin,or Diacetylnorohine is 1:1 ratio of morphine,but it had a carboxyl bond wich breaks is faster down and goes through the blood/brain barrier faster so you get a much faster acting type of morohine and more of it. Thats the diffrences. I can do a short one of the 27club. Why have many known,just not musicians died around that age(ab 10yrs into a normal heroin life-death cycle. Your body wares down and your not able to take the same doses as b4,U get illnesses etc. I'd be dead myself if it wasnt for I been a pain patient since 98(20y.o). Also why I didnt OD cuz there's 2 antidores. Ohysical pain and naloxone or naltrexone. One fast acting the other slow avting over months. Heroin got its name from the german word heroiscm, you feel that fkn gr8 and if U die on the way. Be it. Take ur best orgasm and multiple with 1000x. Great gear byw!! Had to quit playing in 20q5 do to Rtritus in both my hands. Played Nirvana since 96,listened to it since 7th grade ...1990,Bleach ofc. Thought I answer a question most ppl cant understand,know shit ab or answeron. The 8-9yrs with IV use and the lifestyle fucked me up for life bcuz of the amounts and poly-addiction wich Kurt also had. Means 2 or more drugs. Peace...

[@darthporkius]

Love the history lesson / guitar demonstration. I don't listen to nirvana that often but their music is so fun to play and Kurt's art is so inspiring.

[@flippydippy6587]

That Endless Nameless tone for the chorus is so haunting, I love it

[@centroproiv5614]

This channel is awesome dude. Great job.

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Thank you so much!

[@dawidwylezuch9340]

This is soooo epic. I love it man, you're the best. I wish I could jam with you and play nirvana all day long🤠🎸

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Thanks for the kind words!! I’m always up for a Nirvana jam 🎸

[@dawidwylezuch9340]

@@NirvanaGuitars thats not kind words, thats true words. Speaking of jam, I live too far from you to jam, kinda sad. BUT I HOPE ONE DAY I'LL BE ABLE TO MEET YOU AND JAM WITH YOU!

[@theobscurust]

I’d love you here you do the tone for Live MTV Studios January 10th 1992! You did such a great job with all these tones. Love the channel

[@douglasvaughn9349]

Hells yeah ! Sounded awesome keep up the good work!

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Thank you!

[@reverb508]

Another mindblowingly meticulous video. Thanks for everything you do. Love the Roseland modded Stang too!

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Thank you so much for the kind words and support! 🙏🏻

[@kennygonzalezperez792]

Man i love your videos! So well made and everything is explained to perfection. I just bought the DS-2 just because of you lmao. Thanks!

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Thanks so much for watching and for the support 😃 enjoy the DS-2!! It's a great pedal

[@kennygonzalezperez792]

@@NirvanaGuitars Thanks! I can already tell 😎👍

[@89schofe]

My Japanese DS2 is the only pedal I regret selling

[@aimansyahmiaimanharyadi6386]

Bunyi guitar yang di cari cari dari tahun 1997 ..... Terima kasih kerana menunjuk kan video bunyi guitar nirvana 👍🏼👍👍👍🏼👍👍🏼👍🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@lhoo4356]

Chicago ballroom next?

[@NirvanaGuitars]

I can try that one! Epic You Know You're Right performance

[@ZoeysRockShow]

@@NirvanaGuitars that would be really cool to see since the live recording kinda sounds like a demo version of the studio version. Plus it would be cool to see you cover You Know You’re Right in a tone video

[@89schofe]

@@NirvanaGuitarsAm I right in thinking it's the only performance?

[@PalmettoStateSirens]

@@89schofeit is the only performance. However, it is rumored that they would play it at Sound checks during the In Utero tour.

[@kennygame]

I was at that show. I remember the sweater but didn't know about the guitar. I saw them again in November at the New York Coliseum. After that show, I thought I couldn't wait to see them again. :(

[@Red28721]

Why do I want this tone? CUZ ITS AWSOME

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Damn right it's awesome!! 🥳

[@louisnewton4292]

This video and channel rules. Keep up the good work. Classy stuff!

[@NirvanaGuitars]

You rule 🤩 thanks for the support!

[@stab180]

This is one of my favourite Nirvana shows ever, and your tone recreation is so good!! Planning on getting a Mustang one day (I'm still only playing acoustic) and Nirvana definitely will get to be the first band whose songs will be played on it. Nice work on the tone, bro!

[@xalk311x]

I love Rosie! Such a beautiful colorway!

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Rosie's got the looks and the sound 🌹 😍

[@101Volts]

I didn't see a mention of it (maybe I missed it,) and it's a smaller detail, but (judging by the pic of him from this show,) Big John Duncan played that 1966 Mosrite Ventures Mark V model for this show (which was later given to Pat Smear.) However, I remember it only being used for 4 songs in this show, and for 3 of them, it was mostly used for feedback. The only song you hear it in otherwise is in "Very Ape" where he played it high up on the neck. It's a 1966 model because that's the year Mosrite changed the name to the "Ventures Mark V model," and because it still has the truss rod at the body end of the neck. That was changed in Mid 1966. EDIT: Fixed a confusing grammatical mistake, "at the end of body neck."

[@PunkMarioBros]

Fabulous covers!!! Please can you do Nulle Part Ailleurs next (also, could you do the full songs for those as there is only three), thanks!!!

[@ITheNightmare]

10/10 recreation, rlly rlly good.

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Thank you so much!

[@Unknown-iy4ql]

Great video you’re very useful to get that tone thank you 🙏

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Thanks for watching 🙂

[@That_Nirvana_Kid]

Happy 14,000 subscribers!

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Thank you as always! 😁

[@compoundium2155]

Ballroom is such an underrated live, it deserves to be remastered. Although will you ever do an Argentina 1992 tone?

[@NirvanaGuitars]

I’d like to but I don’t have the right gear for it 😫 I need a strat with hot rails and a Univox custom phase 1. Thats the Univox model I want the most!!

[@tomjoad8939]

awesome video! great job getting that no so easy sound.

[@tomjoad8939]

I was only busting your balls about the telecaster. What you did with the jag stang is awesome! I love this video!

[@NirvanaGuitars]

You said I was ridiculous

[@sicosismusic]

Awesome AF Bro guitar sounds sweet

[@nirvanafan715]

You should do the Rio 93 I love Kurt’s tone for that show

[@Ruv_Mind]

Oh,good video thank you 😊

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Thanks for watching! 😁

[@That_Nirvana_Kid]

Awesome video can you please do live on tunnel

[@NirvanaGuitars]

I don’t have an oranj-stang, but I could probably try to recreate it with my skystang!

[@That_Nirvana_Kid]

Sounds good! I have been trying to recreate the tone with my jag and i am geting so close!

[@Tiibero]

The next big thing this guy’s gonna do is have live tribute concert in one of the clubs/venues/stages kurt actually played at

[@jaxcyl1-t4b]

The tone is crazy good, But that mustang is absolutely amazing

[@NirvanaGuitars]

The mustang is probably why this is one of my favorite shows 😍

[@zilkmusik7652]

Nice!!🎉

[@Dekst1989]

My favourite show ❤️

[@galetinm]

Big John Duncan, guitarist from The Exploited.

[@xalk311x]

My 8th birthday! But I lived in San Jose, CA at the time

[@CameronDufour2010]

What are your top 10 nirvana songs mine are 10) school 9) dive 8) aneurysm 7 teen spirit 6 heart shaped box 5) serve the servants 4) even in his youth 3) sappy 2) milk it 1) DRAIN YOU

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Awesome list I like it!! That's a really really hard question, but if I had to pick: 1. Come As You Are 2. Dive 3. Aneurysm 4. Smells Like Teen Spirit 5. You Know You're Right 6. Drain You 7. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter 8. Pennyroyal Tea 9. Milk It 10. Blew But seriously there is not a single Nirvana song I don't like, so it hurts to narrow it down like that haha!

[@CameronDufour2010]

Your Exactly right

[@luisgustavoalmeida2008]

nice video

[@Skittles337]

That "Milk it" Tone is fkn brilliant

[@Valentinoawfafa]

tomorrow, 30 years ago was this incredible concert

[@ryanwebster7873]

We need a documented build , reading sunburst strat for your collection

[@NirvanaGuitars]

I have a sunburst squire strat with a maple neck. one of my many “to do” guitar projects is to get a rosewood Fender neck and hot rails for it!

[@ryanwebster7873]

@@NirvanaGuitars thank you my grungelord

[@StepsandSightseeing]

I know what you said about kurt’s guitar mix on live and loud in your In Utero tone video but it would be awesome if you did live and loud.

[@NirvanaGuitars]

I’m not a fan of that mix, but it’s my favorite (officially released😉) Nirvana show and I get requested to do that tone a lot! I’ve been concentrating on Nevermind studio tones lately but I plan on doing a Live & Loud video soon 🙂

[@StepsandSightseeing]

@@NirvanaGuitars my 8-year-old son wrote that comment and he was very excited when you replied, so thank you!

[@NirvanaGuitars]

@@StepsandSightseeing that made my day, very happy to hear that!! I will try to get a Live & Loud video out in the near future 🙂

[@ghostrider5959]

Hey if you re looking for a bit of a challange for your tone recreation videos try Sappy(The 1990 Studio demo version)

[@Joemcncheese]

PLEASE DO RIO 1993 THAT TONE IS SICK ESPECIALLY ON SCENTLESS APPRENTICE

[@NirvanaGuitars]

I tried awhile ago for that one and couldn’t get close so I gave up 🫣 I’ll have to give it another shot!

[@Helena-gk4ui]

24:20 you took chugging to a new level

[@NirvanaGuitars]

😈

[@huevox2029]

Do an end of the year concert special from Oakland, Ca please...🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@francisantoniocarrenomarti7978]

EVERY VIDEO IS JUST AMAZING MAN, GREAT WORK, KEEP DOING IT, I GOT A CUESTION, I TRY SO HARD TO RECREATE THE CLEAN TONE FROM PARAMOUNT, THIS CRUNCHY SEMI DISTORTED CLEAN TONE ON THE GUITAR, I GOT THE DISTORTION BUT I CANT DO IT, I HAVE A STRAT WITH ESP HUMBUKCER (I KNOW, I NEED A JB OR 58 DUNCANS) SO WHAT CAN YOU RECOMMEND? DO YOU HAVE A VIDEO WITH THAT? THANK YOU!!!!!

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Thanks for the kind words 🙂 Kurt’s crunchy cleans come from the breakup in his Mesa boogie studio pre! You can recreate it with a Fender amp that has a gain knob or the ability to have breakup on the master volume. I’m working on an updated video just for Paramount, but here’s my Nevermind tour tone video where I replicate that! kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2rTiHWFpbBnibc

[@francisantoniocarrenomarti7978]

@@NirvanaGuitars Ohhhhhh got it, so it's from the amp, thank you. I just don't know what I would've done without, you thak you!!!

[@blakemcnamara9105]

Out of sheer curiosity, I wonder how it would sound through a Vox AC-30.

[@kBlueberry2024]

30 years ago today, I'm here to celebrate, while also taking care of my addicted guitar nerd self

[@NEVERMIND_JAG]

This sounds sooooo good it’s one of your videos I always go back to. But to me very ape sounds very crunchy a bit more crunchy then every other song and I was thinking it could be the sansamp. I’m also trying to figure out the poly chorus sound in rio 1993 and it’s crazy how hard it’s been to get I haven’t figured it out but I think it’s on the flange mode other wise thanks for the awesome video!!

[@JimBoom92]

Nice done bro. I really enjoy your viedos. But 1 question is left. Do you turn up the volume on the ds2 fully? How do you then avoid big volume jumps between clean and dirty? Is the amp already at its maximum? Thanks in advance and best regards from a huge Nirvana fan in Austria

[@Toodifficultosay]

Amazing tone! Can you try to make the tone in low quality as well? like we hear it in the recordings only?

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Dang that’s an intriguing idea!! Recreating tones as they’re heard on low quality audience bootlegs. I like it!

[@mastrofpuppets]

@@NirvanaGuitars should try it man, Great idea!!

[@prodbystarboy]

Even though it's a jag stang, AMAZING TONE

[@187op]

Such a beautiful mustang

[@ZiggySync]

Milk it is my favorite riff and come as you are

[@romancitocovers]

Drain you is amazing!!!

[@NirvanaGuitars]

One of their best songs!

[@lovebuzzer8730]

Great Smell like teen spirit tone

[@bobtom7422]

please do 1993 cow palace i love these shows too!!

[@NirvanaGuitars]

LOVE that show! Would love to try that one 😊

[@1985cactus]

It actually doesn't look as ugly with red pickguard as it does with white pearl one. It makes it look a lot wider in the "waist" area.

[@joaopedrotheodorodesousaan4940]

Mannn I need a Insceticed tone!

[@NirvanaGuitars]

I get that requested a lot! But Incesticide is tricky, with so many different tones and eras on that album. That one is a work in progress!

[@torelomholt3651]

awesome.. did kurt not use the jaguar for this show. some claim it was the last time he used it and after this show the dp100 was replased with a sh4jb?? or am i wrong?

[@Hello_Foxy]

I need that sweater

[@Bleached1233]

I have a theory that either the pickup or pickguard was somehow damaged, forcing him to go into the acoustic section, once they couldn't fix it he had to switch to his hi flier. Just a theory, tho.

[@ScarlettfromTDPI]

I have an intresting theory I have to share, even though it’s off topic, it’s still about Kurt cobains guitars, and that’s something I love possibly preditcing. during the mid 1993 shows (i.e Cow Palace, Roseland, etc.) The Fender Jaguar Was stolen after the first show at the cow palace, and that’s why that in the veterans memorial coliseum show (first show on the in Utero tour), and onwards that he switched to the three fender Japanese custom shop mustangs that he used and his the teal prototype jag-stang because he just couldn’t find the jaguar he used so often and heavily during the bands middle years. Unless we get a quote from Kurt Cobain’s staff (i.e guitar technicians, krist or Dave) We may never know if the jaguar was stolen or not. I mean, it’s a pretty stupid theory, but I still hope we believe that we will get a quote from them to prove if this theory was right.

[@Helena-gk4ui]

actually Poly Chorus and Echo Flanger are the same pedal ☝️🤓

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Yes the original 80s first run polychorus is the same as the echo flanger, but my poly chorus is the 90s stereo reissue 😏 Sounds different than a vintage poly chorus/echo flanger ☝🏻🤓

[@Helena-gk4ui]

@@NirvanaGuitars yes, that's because the 90s poly chorus has a different circuit ☝️🤓 (here an electricity student)

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Yes exactly! So therefore, my (stereo reissue) poly chorus is not the same as an echo flanger ☝🏻🤓

[@Helena-gk4ui]

@@NirvanaGuitars but it's kinda the same as Poly Chorus and Poly Chorus it's the same pedal as Echo but it's not exactly the same so my conclusion: it's the samen't ☝️🤓

[@Helena-gk4ui]

@@NirvanaGuitars electricity nerds slay 🤭

[@dumpythehippo5818]

This shits great

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Thank you!

[@dumpythehippo5818]

@@NirvanaGuitars OFC!! rosland ballroom is one of my favorite nirvana shows

[@tallgremlin]

You should do a Rio De Janiero Hollywood rock show tone video

[@CARNAGELS7]

@NirvanaGuitars What color was the roseland before you made one as your own?

[@leonardopaquersendeski]

hi eric! i have a question, can i have this tone with the ds1? if yes, what settings i use?? i live in brazil and the ds2 here have the same price as a brand new fender guitar💀💀💀💀

[@YvngShiesty2K]

when it comes to playing school I was told he played it with open e and pull offs not a g chord, however I could be wrong, mind you I'm not telling you how to play.

[@RyanSinghI]

when are you going to make part 2 for live at reading 92'

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Once I have a strat with hot rails. I’ve been working on other guitar projects

[@RyanSinghI]

@@NirvanaGuitars okey

[@Tiibero]

24:33 I really want to learn this riff properly

[@anthonyvachon2189]

Live at munich next please

[@kkrsnn5632]

Nice 😎 So all in Standard E or Eb?

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Thanks! Eb tuning

[@LoKC84]

Probably first live show with sansamp, probably sansamp (verse) + ds2 (chorus) on very ape

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Not sure about that! Kurt seemed to always use the sansamp as a full on distortion pedal, not light overdrive. I think the crunchy sound on the Very Ape is his pre amp’s breakup

[@LoKC84]

@@NirvanaGuitars it seems to be too overdriven.. if you search for photo on internet, in the reharsal he was experimenting with the pedal knobs and order (SA->DS2, DS2->SA)

[@sodasalt6590]

anyone know what tunings he used for the show because they tend to sound as though they were at a lower tuning when i try to play with them

[@sonicd57]

Was the roseland mustang pickguard red pearl or red tortoise ?

[@pollyslate456]

How much has a that costed also great job on the video

[@Venlifh]

Please tell me the settings of the amplifier and Ds2 for "In Bloom"

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Still working on that one

[@xonez1417]

do you know how to get this crancky clean tone from this concert?

[@SigmaShark911]

i think its mostly from the single coil pickups and the middle part of the amp ive tried tuning my amp settings similar to these ive got the exact tone from this show months ago but i forgot the settings..

[@xonez1417]

@@SigmaShark911 😭, but in bridge he had single coil humbucker

[@NEVERMIND_JAG]

@xonez1417 I think it’s also how high the pickup was set as it keeps over saturating and sounds fuzzy.

[@But-hey-but-gaming]

Did @nivanaguitars change his channel profile pic?

[@xxzackbudnerxx]

Hey what strings do you use for your stangs?

[@CameronDufour2010]

I know I’m not @nirvanaguitars but he said in another vid that he uses JHS boomers (well at least for his Skystang)

[@xxzackbudnerxx]

@@CameronDufour2010 Awesome thank you, you know what gauge as well?

[@CameronDufour2010]

@@xxzackbudnerxx 10-52

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Kurtcobainfan is right! GHS Boomers on my In Utero era guitars, and Dean Markley on Nevermind era guitars. 10-52 on the short scales, 10-46 on the others (Vandalism Strat and Eastwood Hi Flier). Before I switched to those strings (what Kurt used), I used Ernie Ball Heavy Top Skinny Bottom and enjoyed those

[@tomjoad8939]

Great video but I can't find that pickguard.

[@andrewhart6200]

Are these guitars ever tuned to Drop D or are they all in standard??

[@weptmallard1348]

Man It would be cool if you did the cow palace show but you already changed your compstang but maybe in the future.

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Comp stang was changed only for Nevermind studio tone vids! Once those are done, hot rails will be going back in and TOM will be installed🙂

[@weptmallard1348]

@@NirvanaGuitars well that makes sense I totally forgot that you changed your compstang for the nevermind studio tones.

[@FionaLehmann-ws5ve]

BRO PLS PLS PLS TELL WHERE I CAN BUY ONE I CANT FIND ONE ANYWHERE 😢😓

[@liam_loveless]

where did you get the red pickguard from?

[@ashton4454]

i had the same question

[@pat6696]

Where did you get the pick guard?

[@h.k6781]

What tuning are you in?

[@ZiggySync]

I wish in bloom was played

[@Kidnamedfinger5558]

When did you start playing guitar??

[@NirvanaGuitars]

In 2007 👴🏻

[@Kidnamedfinger5558]

@@NirvanaGuitarsDamn, 15 years

[@MightyALX]

Nirvana MTV Unplugged Tone at some point?

[@NirvanaGuitars]

Yes! Once I have something that can match the D18e’s tone. I’ve been trying to build something for a long time now, some parts are proving to be nearly impossible to find

[@peterheinzelmann3335]

I'd say there are more mids and/or less treble. Just sayin'...awesome work nevertheless

[@MasterChiefHarrow]

🤩🎸

[@NirvanaGuitars]

😁🤘🏻

[@fanoboss]

i think you are missing the brutality of mesa ... or was this pre-mesa ?

[@NirvanaGuitars]

He used the Mesa at this show! The Mesa pre is my dream piece of gear, one day! 🤞🏻

[@Bigmetalfan306]

What's your cable

[@ControlPointDonelson]

Rio de Janeiro? I like the sound of that one

[@Dooodrhino]

Your distorted tone sounds better than Kurt's

[@zachz21014]

wait does that make it better or worse-