Does anyone know how to get a guitar tone close to that Robin Guthrie sound?

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That Cure-ish sound, which I'm hearing in Cocteau Twins' "Iceblink Luck", is that a guitar or a bass or what?

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 04:25 (eighteen years ago) link

reverb and chorus are likely components. there was a 'total guitar' (?) article on robin's setup but it seems to have wandered off the web

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 04:26 (eighteen years ago) link

oh here it is

http://www.cocteautwins.com/html/media/print/tg_may96.html

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 04:29 (eighteen years ago) link

You could probably get a lot of milage with a good stereo chorus pedal and the Line6 Delay Modeller.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link

his signature sound is very digital sounding up until late 90s. use to be able to duplicate most of the sounds on Victorialand by running acoustic 12 string and teles through digital reverse reverb (the kind with the attack cut out), chorus, delay, and flange.

― william fields, Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

So speaking of Mr. Guthrie

https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/robin-guthrie-discography-list

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 21:11 (two years ago) link

answering Jim P’s question upthread after 16 years: it’s a Bass VI which the CTs used on quite a few tracks from the Aikea-Guinea EP onwards

― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link

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