Pablo Honey Dynamic Split — Glassy Verse & ShredMaster Stabs
Jonny Greenwood’s explosive pre-chorus stabs are strongly associated with a Marshall ShredMaster driving the clean channel of a Fender Eighty-Five, while the verses rely on a much cleaner, wider guitar texture. The exact clean-layer guitar and control positions were not published, so those settings are approximated from the band’s early-1990s rigs. Source: Kuassa’s “Creep Guitar Tone Breakdown,” Mixdown’s Jonny Greenwood gear rundown, and The King of Gear.
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The contrast is the sound: make the verse genuinely clean, then let the two abrasive stabs arrive much louder. Do not smooth the ShredMaster into a modern high-gain tone.
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