Pearl Jam guitar tone

A tone for the band, not for one recording: the sound they are known for, so expect to move a knob for any particular song. Nobody has played this one yet; it comes from a documented rig, not from ears.

Play it in

AmpliTube 5 Guitar Rig 7

Player Pro

Find the tab

Dial it in Guitar Rig 7 Pro by hand, using only components the Pro edition includes. A starting point nobody has played in this edition yet.

An amp modelled on a Fender Super Reverb, through a Fender Super Reverb 4x10 cab.

Knobs, in signal order

1
TweedmanAmp
- Normal, 3.5 of 10
- Bass, 5 of 10
- Middle, 5.5 of 10
- Treble, 6 of 10
- Presence, 5 of 10
The recipe also sets volume and reverb, which Tweedman does not have. Leave its other controls where they load.
2
Matched Cabinet ProCab
- Cabinet, the one that loads with Tweedman
The rig calls for a Fender Super Reverb 4x10 cabinet. NI does not publish the names of the matched cabinets, so start from the one that loads with the amp and change it by ear.

Note: A plain number is the knob's own reading on a 0 to 10 scale unless the setting gives another range; %, Hz, dB and ms are the units the Guitar Rig 7 interface shows. Amp, drive and fuzz knobs are assumed to read 0 to 10.

Set your guitar

Pickups: three single coils
Position: neck
Tone knob: 7-9
Channel: Clean

Where the rig comes from

On Ten McCready used a Fender Bassman for the clean tones, heard on Black, and a Marshall JCM800 for distortion groundguitar.com
The exact Bassman model is not confirmed; live he later used a 1963 Bassman for clean tones, and no settings or cabinet are documented groundguitar.com