Semisonic – Closing Time album cover

Semisonic – Closing Time

Single 1998

The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 1998 single Closing Time.

Music from Closing Time

Gear Used On Closing Time

Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Semisonic – Closing Time (1998). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.

Effects Pedals used by Dan Wilson on Closing Time

Fuzz Effects Pedals

ZVEX Fuzz Factory

Avg price: $304.20

At 12:52 in this episode of Song Exploder, Dan Wilson recounts the writing of "Closing Time" and says:

Z.Vex Effects is based in Minneapolis and they had this new invention called a Fuzz Factory, which is this crazy sounding distortion box that makes a guitar sound like its this giant zipper being zipped. Very strange sounding. And Zach at Z.Vex Effects brought that Fuzz Factory to a party at my house and it was labelled number 5, so it was like the fifth one that they built and I use it on everything. It was that buzzy sound struck me as so insane. I loved it. And that's the sound of that solo in "Closing Time."