I finally got to see
Saint Vitus a few months ago, after what.....25 or 30 years or so?
Dave Chandler always had this strange (to me anyway) brooding, french horn-like guitar sound that I just could never quite figure out how it was done. Whenever I'd try to figure that out I'd get close, but not quite all the way there.
Well, I got a closeup pic of his pedalboard and actually got to meet him and talk a bit with him after the show. He told me there was no real secret to his sound....what you see on the pedalboard boosting into a cranked JCM800 100watt stack with the highs rolled back. There you go. If you haven't experienced a 100 watt Marshall JCM800 full stack cranked all the way up, you would not believe how f**king LOUD THIS REALLY IS. I was at the very front of the stage and
barely made it through the first song before I had to install my earplugs!
The part I missed all these years was the boosting into an already overdriven amp. I hear it now and can't believe I didn't recognize that before.
Attached is my pic of his pedalboard; you can clearly see the signal routing and zoom in on the knob settings. I also have a very short mp4 vid I took but at 52MB it's still too big to attach.
EDIT: Link to the short video:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pji7frjxf7iceud/1011162322.mp4?dl=0