Electric Lady Loud-Quiet-Loud — Clean Arpeggio & P-90 Wall
The debut’s clean and distorted sounds were made with Ocasek’s borrowed Gibson and Fender guitars into a vintage Mesa/Boogie Mark I, with Cuomo later stressing that the record did not rely on stompbox distortion. The precise guitar assignment is not documented, so the Jaguar clean and Les Paul Special chorus are representative choices from the confirmed studio collection. Source: Guitar.com’s Blue Album gear guide (2023) and Premier Guitar’s Rivers Cuomo interview (2023).
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Make the verse genuinely clean and sparse. The chorus should become wider and louder, but retain a grainy P-90 attack rather than a smooth high-gain sound.
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