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Riff Tone

Smash It Up (Pts. 1 & 2)

The Damned

Guitarpunk1970s

Original Gear

GuitarGibson SG Standard (late 1960s/early 1970s, as used by Captain Sensible on 'Machine Gun Etiquette')
AmpMarshall JMP 50-watt head (1970s, likely into Marshall 4x12 cab)

Amp Settings

gain0
bass6

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Effects & Signal Chain

Notes

Studio recording, 1979. No pedals or effects used for clean sections; guitar plugged straight into amp. Captain Sensible preferred a clean, unprocessed tone for rhythm/clean parts. Settings estimated based on era, genre, and artist interviews. No evidence of effects or pedals on clean riff sections.

Tone Character(10)
bright and punchyclear and articulatetight percussive attackno audible reverb or delayslightly edgy but cleandynamic response to pickinguncompressed, rawmid-forward presenceclassic punk clarityno modulation or time-based effects

Difficulty

The riff is fast and requires tight, consistent downstroke strumming typical of punk, but uses simple chord shapes and no advanced techniques.

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