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Help On the Way / Slipknot! (Live At the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA, August 13, 1975) Guitar Tone Settings
Grateful Dead · 1970s · rock
live
Original Recording
Guitar
1973 Doug Irwin 'Wolf' custom guitar
Pickups
DiMarzio Dual Sound humbuckers (coil-split for single-coil operation)
Amp
Fender Twin Reverb (Silverface, late 1960s/early 1970s, heavily modified by Alembic)
Pickup Position
Bridge pickup (coil-split to single-coil mode)
Live performance, August 13, 1975, Great American Music Hall. Jerry Garcia's 'Wolf' guitar with coil-split DiMarzio pickups into a heavily modified Fender Twin Reverb, typical of his mid-70s live rig. No evidence of additional amp heads or different guitars for the solo section.
Amp Settings
Mids6
Bass4
Gain4
Reverb3
Treble7.5
Presence5.5
Effects Chain
- Mu-Tron III Envelope Filter · modulation
- MXR Phase 100 (or Phase 90, model uncertain) · phaser
- Delay pedal (model unknown, likely tape echo or analog delay) · delay
Guitar (Wolf, bridge pickup coil-split) → Mu-Tron III Envelope Filter → MXR Phaser → Delay pedal (tape/analog) → Fender Twin Reverb (spring reverb on)
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Tone Character
- bright and articulate
- singing sustain
- touch-sensitive dynamics
- slight edge-of-breakup crunch
- clear note separation
- upper-midrange focus
- tight, controlled lows
- sparkling highs
- mild compression
- responsive to picking attack