Albums With Impeccable Guitar Tone: MBV Loveless #shorts

[yettibaker]

My hippie acid friend showed me this albume. They have their own sound and it sounds like their batteries are running low. So kool

[pricelessnegd]

loveless had a budget of 250, 000-500, 000 and became the best shoegaze album of all time.

deathconsciousness had a budget of less than $1000 and was made by two random guys, and also became the best shoegaze album of all time.

[averylangs]

People talk about Siamese Dream's tone, deservedly so, but damn the tone on the heavier tracks on Mellon Collie is insane. the guitars are distorted and aggressive, it's like they're coming out of your headphones and screaming in your face

[joshferguson]

Yob the unreal never lived or clearing the path to ascend both albums are masterpieces and the tone is crushing

[Ndie]

Imagine all the injuries to hearing by this one guitarist in the early 90s

[AndrewJOliver]

I saw MBV several times from 1986 including when they were supporting The Soup Dragons. They got louder over time, the last time I saw them was in Leicester in ‘91 and my hearing was ringing for about a week. Loveless is an absolutely beautiful album.

[brandon.-.]

Amazing album man but how about wild heart by current joys that album has such a unique sound idk how to get it

[unemployablegraduate]

There’s actually very little or no reverb on most of the guitars on ‘Loveless’. It’s more about clever mic techniques, EQ, tweaking various types of fuzz.

[uzjsbmi]

Please do a complete break downof how to recreate the tone of "When You Sleep" by MBV. Even more awesome if you can do the same by a cover of that song by Beetleflux.

Thank you so much for demystifying Shoegaze/Alt Rock/Grunge tones!!!

[Hehehehhehehehehehehehhe]

I dont believe any JCM800s were on loveless, they were a live amp for them at the time. From what i remember it was vox, fender amps and a "60s marshall amp" most likely a JTM45

[EsteBandido_YT]

Bro if you have a chance.
Look up "Dynamo" by Soda Stereo. Released in 1992, it was influenced by that album.
Or make a live reaction to "Texturas" (last song of the album)

[burntoats]

Impeccable guitar tone: The Splendour of Fear by Felt

[AnTiNY]

Vulgar Display of Power, Far Beyond Driven

[stickyfin]

i wrote a paper on loveless, i don’t think the album was actually £500, 000 and nearly bankrupted creation records. kevin shields and allan mcgee argue over how much it was, kevin says mcgee exaggerated the cost.

[rmmancham]

250 to 500 is huge difference, how can production cost such, rent a castle?

[mfilesband]

And nevermind was done in 4 weeks, cost 60k, made so much more. LOL

[haroharoharoharoo]

didnt almost bankrupt the label, that was a lie made to blame mbv and kevin shields for the label's own problems

[Quicksilver_Cookie]

Dude was a procrastinator. Album didn't take 3 years to record. He managed to only do enough recording sessions in 3 years to barely make it an album, better way to put it. Wasted studio money. Decent album, but with that amount of time and effort it should've been something incredible.

[Flibbybibby]

Not reverbs. Often dry with layers, cosmic layers of distortions.

[andreamilani]

All this money and time were spent for the best album of all music