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Dan Donegan
Disturbed's guitarist and primary musical writer, Donegan defined the band's sound on The Sickness with a Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifier in drop C# and a DigiTech Whammy for the siren-like pitch dives that open 'Down with the Sickness.' He favors a tight, mid-present high-gain rhythm tone built for groove and syncopation rather than speed, and later developed his Washburn Maya signature — though the debut was cut on his earlier Gibson-era guitars.
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