Br00tal Cleans

[crochambeau]

Are you looking for fingernails on a chalkboard clean? Set up an amplifier that is only driving a bunch of piezo tweeters which is bypassed when your dirt is engaged.

[01010111]

Isn't this why we have ring modulators?

[Jwar]

I play clean all the time man. My favorite is to add a good eq or very slight overdrive with delay or some verb. I love fuzz, but I find a lot of it loses character when I'm trying to play something more complex. So, I've switched to mostly using delay type pedals and other less brootal effects. LOL

My bass is punchy as fuck though. I have Barts in there with a bart pre. Well, in both basses. So I really don't even need an OD. I could use my amp.

[mathias]

Ringmod mixed low.

This -- clean channel ringmod on BitQuest, or the BitQuest's bit crusher with the mix to mostly clean, so it is "underneath" the clean sound.

[repoman]

DBA Reverberation Machine

[tremolo3]

Tera Melos? I haven't heard anything new since the Patagonian Rats in 2010 I think, but they play very clean and they're a weird band, mostly because of the usage of effects and of course the time signatures.
And if that's what you want, then of course Piglet, Pele, Hella, LITE and all those math rock bands from earl/mid 00s.

Not noisy or weird, but my favorite cleans are from a Telecaster into a Twin Reverb, think American Football. I'd add a compressor maybe.

[baremountain]

Disappointed by this thread. Based on its location, I thought you simply misspelt "cleanse" and this would be about terrible post-Arby's rectal cleansing.

[damnableman]

Listen to Shellac.

+1

[Snufkino]

Super Hard On or an Alembic mids booster plus SS/BS mini?

[ck3]

Bit crushers are great for this, too.

Agreed. I would also add that a blend control will be an essential feature if the goal is to slightly warp a clean signal.

Another approach to consider would be the incorporation of dissonance, more specifically, dense chords with close intervals. Also, I recall reading somewhere that Kevin Shields used a particular EQ envelope to torture an audience during one od MBV's club gigs. The same settings may cause cleans to become bre3wt4l.

[Gone Fission]

Klon and Strymon Timeline in Shimmer mode.

[Mudfuzz]

Get an acoustic guitar, only then can you really be brutal.

[$harkToootth]

For "bands that do this well" Mid-West Emo bands (looking at you AMERICAN FOOTBALL), PILE (Neon, I know you listen to them...maybe 'Magic Isn't Real' era?), and POLVO.

[t-rey]

I'll let you try out my EQD Arrows. It does...something to the cleans set at unity that makes shit big and heavy sounding (to me at least) - push the volume a bit and you can really ride that clean/dirty thing ala Tom Petty and/or Kowloon Walled City. Work has slowed down for me (finally and thankfully) so hopefully we can make that happen soon.

[Olin]

For "bands that do this well" Mid-West Emo bands (looking at you AMERICAN FOOTBALL), PILE (Neon, I know you listen to them...maybe 'Magic Isn't Real' era?), and POLVO.

Idk man I can't see how American Football could ever be considered noisy. Polvo are cool, as are all the associated bands of that era (Seam, Silkworm, Unwound, DLJ, Lowercase, etc).