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Riff Tone

Dumb

Nirvana

Guitarrock1990s

Original Gear

Guitar1991 Fender Mustang (left-handed, Competition Blue, stock single coil in neck, Seymour Duncan JB humbucker in bridge)
AmpFender Quad Reverb (1970s, Utah speakers, studio recording at Pachyderm Studios)

Amp Settings

gain0
bass6

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Effects & Signal Chain

Notes

Studio recording, 1993, In Utero sessions. Clean tone for 'Dumb' riff/verse. Guitar: Mustang with neck pickup. Amp: Fender Quad Reverb, as confirmed by multiple sources for In Utero. No evidence of pedals in clean section; chorus and reverb are audible. Settings estimated based on amp type and genre, as no explicit clean settings for 'Dumb' found.

Tone Character(10)
clear and bell-likelush chorus shimmerwarm and rounded attackslightly scooped midsopen, airy high endsubtle spring reverb ambiencedynamic and touch-sensitiveno audible distortionneck pickup claritystudio-recorded clean passage

Difficulty

The riff is beginner-friendly, using basic open chords and a steady, soft strumming pattern with no complex techniques or fast changes.

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