How to Dial In "Seether" by Veruca Salt - Guitar Tone Settings

Nina Gordon wrote 'Seether' and sings it; Louise Post is the band's other guitarist, and no published source says which of them plays which guitar layer, so don't assume the writer took the lead. The album was cut with Brad Wood at Idful Music in Chicago from January 1994, paid for out of studio credits Minty Fresh had block-booked with Wood; the version most often confused with it is an earlier demo cut at Gravity Studios. Both Wood's and the band's accounts of those sessions are about money and arrangement rather than equipment — no interview names a guitar, an amp or a pedal — so all three gear fields are empty rather than guessed. The Gibson SG that gear writeups attach to this band cannot be used here: the only place it appears is a sentence describing Post playing an SG into an Orange Rockerverb with a Boss overdrive, and the Rockerverb did not exist until 2004, so that passage describes a modern rig and cannot support a 1994 attribution. Tuning is a half step down — the guitars finger B5-A5-D5 shapes but the record sounds in B flat, one published tab specifies E flat tuning outright, and audio key detection returns A flat major; the Songsterr transcriptions that read standard are uncredited and are the transposed-to-standard artefact. The tone is a thick, saturated bar-chord bed with the pop melody riding on top, so push the gain but keep the mids from scooping out or the hook disappears.