Radiohead Amp Settings & Guitar Tone
Featured Tone
Creep (1993)
Fender Telecaster → Vox AC30
Clean arpeggios transitioning to gritty distortion with midrange punch
Typical Gear & Settings
Average Amp Settings
Amplifiers
- Vox AC30
- Jonny Greenwood: early-1960s Fender Bassman head into a custom 'Plank'-built cabinet (the rig mic'd in the Dead Air Space photo titled 'jonnyarpeggi3' from the In Rainbows sessions). A 1953 Fender Champ 5C1 and his 1990s Vox AC30TB
Guitars
- Fender Telecaster
- Fender Telecaster Plus V1 (1995, Tobacco Burst) — Jonny Greenwood's main 'Tele Plus'. Ed O'Brien (who plays the other interlocking arpeggio) most likely used a Fender Telecaster or Fender Eric Clapton Signature Stratocaster from his In Rainbows-era rotation.
Pickups
- single_coil
- other
Effects & Pedals
distortion
Boss DS-1 (1 song)
reverb
TC Electronic Hall of Fame (1 song)
none (dry signal)
No pedals on Jonny's signal chain for the album recording (1 song)
reverb (mix-bus only)
EMT 140 plate reverb (added by Nigel Godrich during mix, per Radiohead studio practice) (1 song)
delay (Ed O'Brien's parts only, secondary layer)
Boss DD-5 Digital Delay and/or Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man (Big Box, analog) — Ed O'Brien's core delay rig during the In Rainbows period (1 song)
Playing Style
Radiohead Song Tones
Creep (1993)
Vox AC30
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi (2007)
Jonny Greenwood: early-1960s Fender Bassman head into a custom 'Plank'-built cabinet (the rig mic'd in the Dead Air Space photo titled 'jonnyarpeggi3' from the In Rainbows sessions). A 1953 Fender Champ 5C1 and his 1990s Vox AC30TB
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