How To Get Cocteau Twins Guitar Tone in 10 Minutes!

Do you like glittery chorus drenched guitar? Well, the Cocku twins have some of the best examples of that. So, today I'm going to take a look at the song Heaven or Las Vegas from their 1990 record Heaven or Las Vegas. [Music] And I'm going to spend the next 37 days deep diving and dissecting Nick.

Nick, we do not have time for that type of episode today. But I want to. Your how to sound like the edge episode took forever. But I just feel like this could be a 10-minute episode and you can only use JHS pedals.

But I was just feeling like Please get it done. Fine. Okay. Sorry I threw a little baby tantrum, but I've got some stuff that we can work with.

Let's get started. The Cocku twins actually have a page on their website that's dedicated to archiving a lot of the gear that they use. So if you are interested in looking deeper into it, you can go check out that website. Based on the gear that they use on this song, I have picked some JHS pedals that will be good substitutes, kind of like Splenda.

That's funny. For chorus, they'd use the Roland Dimension D. For that, I'm going to use the Emperor, but the 3 series chorus is an excellent alternative. There is a little bit of pitch shifting happening on this opening riff, and that is coming from a Lexicon pitch shifter.

we have a problem because we don't have a pitch effect, unfortunately, Josh. So, to replace that, I'm going to use the octave reverb. I'm going to essentially let this be my octave sound. Yes, it's not a standalone octave effect, but it adds a lot of shimmer and shine, and that's what this sound needs.

For delay, they use the TC 2290, which is a digital delay. So, I'm going to use the flight delay in digital mode to replace that. On the record, the delay is very subtle. You can barely hear it, but I feel like it does actually add a lot.

For the amp, they use a Marshall 9000 tube preamp. This was a piece of rack gear that they plugged directly into the board and they would compress their guitars to tape. It is ridiculously clean. So, to simulate that super clean sound, I'm going to use the pulp ...