No More Tears — Guitar Tone

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Original gear

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Pickups

Bridge pickup

Effects / signal chain

overdrive, chorus

Tone character

bone-crushing crunch, tight and percussive, extended treble and bass response, ample midrange definition, high-output, aggressive bridge pickup, saturated high-gain, tight palm-muted chugs, slightly modulated, thickened by chorus, articulate attack, heavy, modern metal rhythm

Recording context

studio

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Sources

• Zakk Wylde's guitar tone on Ozzy Osbourne's No More Tears: how he got his sound | Guitar World
• Ozzy Osbourne & Ozzy Osbourne – No More Tears (Expanded Edition) - Gear & Equipment Used on the Album | Equipboard
• “We were doing that riff and cracking up laughing the whole time”: Zakk Wylde on how a “joke” riff won Ozzy Osbourne his first ever Grammy | MusicRadar

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