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Thee Oh Sees Guitar Tone

Anyone have good pedal/settings/gear suggestions or advice on how to get a good Thee Oh Sees guitar tone from the albums Warm Slime or Carrion Crawler/The Dream? Thanks in advance!

a quick google search and a look at some pics revealed these guys use old blackface fender head and cab setups.... get a bandmaster, bassman or showman to start. You will literally have your guitar socks knocked off by how awesome an original 60s fender is at doing the fender sound. Any reissues and hot rods you have tried in guitar stores will pale in comparison. In some of the pics it looks like the guitarist is playing a silverface bandmaster reverb head which is very similar to a pro reverb combo.... you can tell the bandmaster and showman reverb by their silver faceplate and taller headbox (to accommodate an F reverb tank)

they also appear to use dual showman 2x15 cabs or the later oversized abssman and bandmaster 2x12 cabinets. The old pine fender cabinets have a sound, especially the oversized ones. Its not my thing, but its a tone all its own.

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