By the Way Dynamic Split — Percussive Clean & DS-2 Chorus
The title track contrasts a tightly muted clean verse with a much broader distorted chorus. Frusciante’s album-era setup centred on his 1962 Stratocaster and large Marshall Major/Super Bass-family amplifiers, but the precise guitar, pedal and control assignments for this individual track are not fully documented, so the DS-2 chorus settings are a conservative reconstruction. Source: Ground Guitar’s By the Way gear breakdown and Marshall Major history.
Signal Chain
Notes
Mute the verse with both hands and keep the clean sound bright but full. The chorus should widen through doubled performances and DS-2 compression rather than excessive amplifier gain.
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