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Paranoid Android Solo Guitar Tone Settings — Radiohead
Radiohead · 1990s · rock
studio
Original Recording
Guitar
Fender Telecaster Plus
Pickups
Lace Sensor single coils (Red, Blue, Silver configuration)
Amp
Fender 85 solid-state combo
Pickup Position
Bridge pickup
Studio recording, 1997. Jonny Greenwood used the Telecaster Plus into a Fender 85 amp for the solo section, with a Marshall ShredMaster distortion pedal and a Mutronics Mutator rack effect for the filter/envelope sound. The DOD440 Envelope Filter is used live, but the Mutator was used on the studio recording.
Amp Settings
Mids6.5
Bass5.5
Gain7
Reverb2.5
Treble7
Presence5.5
Effects Chain
- Marshall ShredMaster · distortion
- Mutronics Mutator · modulation
Fender Telecaster Plus → Marshall ShredMaster → Mutronics Mutator → Fender 85 amp (with light spring reverb)
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Tone Character
- aggressive and saturated
- synth-like filter sweeps
- cutting, bright top end
- mid-forward and compressed
- singing sustain
- dynamic, modulated envelope
- alien, glitchy textures
- crisp, biting lead
- distinctive, synthetic solo sound
- notably atonal and experimental