Given this paragraph about grunge guitarists, what types of amplifiers would typically be preferred?
Given this paragraph about grunge guitarists, what types of amplifiers would typically be preferred?
Some grunge guitarists use loud Marshall or Mesa-Boogie amplifiers.
Some grunge guitarists use loud Marshall or Mesa-Boogie amplifiers.
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Grunge is generally characterized by a sludgy electric guitar sound with a thick middle register and rolled-off treble tone and a high level of distortion and fuzz, typically created with small 1970s-style stompbox pedals, with some guitarists chaining several fuzz pedals together and plugging them into a tube amplifier and speaker cabinet.Grunge guitarists use very loud Marshall guitar amplifiers and some used powerful Mesa-Boogie amplifiers, including Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl (the latter in early, grunge-oriented Foo Fighters songs). Grunge has been called the rock genre with the most "lugubrious sound"; the use of heavy distortion and loud amps has been compared to a massive "buildup of sonic fog" or even dismissed as "noise" by one critic.As with metal and punk, a key part of grunge's sound is very distorted power chords played on the electric guitar.
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