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How to get the Bittersweet Symphony guitar tone

The Verve

Not quite clean, not quite dirty. That edge-of-breakup thing is genuinely hard to dial in and The Verve got it right. The mids are pushed forward, giving it that cutting, slightly nasal character — the note finds its own space in a mix. Layer in plate reverb and the whole thing takes on a dimension you can't get from the amp alone.

Gear used on the recording

GuitarOffset / Jaguar / Jazzmaster
AmpVox AC30 / AC15

Key tone characteristics

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