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Tone recipes·2026 · JUL
Shoegaze1991

01My Bloody Valentine

Only Shallow

The 'glide guitar' tone — a Jazzmaster with the tremolo arm depressed and held throughout, creating pitch wobble on every chord strum. Massive walls of Fender Jaguars stacked through Marshalls with reverse-reverb effects. Chords have no defined attack because the trem arm dive happens AT the moment of strike. The recording layers a dozen or more guitar tracks, all using this technique, so the texture is mountain-thick.

02Signal chain

Guitar to amp, 2 pedals between.

  1. In
    Guitar

    Fender Jazzmaster (specifically the trem-arm depression technique)

  2. 01
    Reverse reverb on the mix bus, not always per-guitar
    Yamaha SPX90 (reverse reverb)

    Reverse mode, decay ~2s

  3. 02
    Layered fuzz on some tracks
    Boss FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz

    Mode 2, gain maxed

  4. Out
    Amp

    Marshall JMP heads into stacked 4x12s

03Field note

The secret sauce

Shields holds the trem arm down DURING the strum, not before — the chord goes from out-of-tune to in-tune as the arm releases. That ascending pitch bend is the 'glide'.