Tone chasing - CoC help?

[Fireproof]

Hey folks - quick question. I just love the dirty tones on Corrosion of Conformity’s Albatross and Clean My Wounds.

What amp/drives/etc., would I start with to get close to these tones? (I’m using an FM9 if there’s any specific guidance there).

 

[la szum]

Great stuff. Don't hear them mentioned often.

Weren't they using Mesa Boogie DC-3s/5s around that time?

 

[JiveTurkey]

Great stuff. Don't hear them mentioned often.

Weren't they using Mesa Boogie DC-3s/5s around that time?

Are those the same thing as the 50 Calibre? Mesa has the Marks and the Recto then everything else is always a little harder to keep track of. Some sleepers, some internet "confirmed" turds and some that seem to fall in both of those categories.

 

[Fireproof]

Great stuff. Don't hear them mentioned often.

Weren't they using Mesa Boogie DC-3s/5s around that time?

I’m not sure. I’ve heard they used Mesa Dual Rec and an Orange Rockerverb or something? Some places they say they just used a tube screamer and wah, others say there’s some kind of fuzzier drive?

 

[Stone]

Pepper uses a old Mesa Boogie .50 Cal+ head and Woody uses a 92 or 93 Dual Rectifier

 

[JiveTurkey]

Pepper uses a old Mesa Boogie .50 Cal+ head and Woody uses a 92 or 93 Dual Rectifier

This is off my FAVORITE C.O.C. album

 

[Stone]

im Sure Leon (@2112) can chime in, Mesa's are his specialty, well everything is what i mean

 

[Stone]

Well if it cant be done on FAS then it cant be done, unless you have a Helix

 

[JiveTurkey]

Well if it cant be done on FAS then it cant be done, unless you have a Helix

Boss has a Mark style amp.

 

[Fireproof]

Well if it cant be done on FAS then it cant be done, unless you have a Helix

I just love their tones and riffs, etc. Yeah - maybe Leon will chime in with some guidance! I know it can be done!

 

[la szum]

Are those the same thing as the 50 Calibre? Mesa has the Marks and the Recto then everything else is always a little harder to keep track of. Some sleepers, some internet "confirmed" turds and some that seem to fall in both of those categories.

DC= Dual Calibre and was a later iteration of the 50 Cal and 50 Cal +.

Think Pepper changed to Oranges later on.... after those songs/albums were recorded.

 

[Stone]

I also recall reading that Pepper Keenan strings his axe (ESP) with a wound G for extra punch and uses a bass pick

 

[Stone]

Think Pepper changed to Oranges later on

He did, Thunder Verb 50

 

[la szum]

If Pepper is happy with an Orange now I would be, too----since the Marks and Rectos are
not quite what the 50 Cal and DCs were.

 

[la szum]

I have a super old DVD of them live in Detroit. I should watch it again and see what they are using.

 

[la szum]

Wow. Everything is on Youtube.

 

[pipelineaudio]

What a trippy evolution that band had, from pretty much the OG progenitor of several styles to weirdo doomy swamp rock, but still kicking ass in every incarnation

 

[DrewJD82]

Damn, I didn’t even know a CoC existed where Pepper wasn’t the singer.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Damn, I didn’t even know a CoC existed where Pepper wasn’t the singer.

1st era---hardcore
2nd era---doomy metal with a post-thrash tinge
3rd era---stoner rock
Some other oddballs thrown in where they worked as a 3 piece again, then with different drummers, then with Reed and Karl Agell from Blind doing that album in it's entirety, iirc? Lots of good stuff throughout.

 

[DrewJD82]

1st era---hardcore
2nd era---doomy metal with a post-thrash tinge
3rd era---stoner rock
Some other oddballs thrown in where they worked as a 3 piece again, then with different drummers, then with Reed and Karl Agell from Blind doing that album in it's entirety, iirc? Lots of good stuff throughout.

I never even heard them until “Albatross” was on the radio all the time in the mid-90’s, there was another that came out around that time, too, probably the same album.