Jerry Horton

Papa Roach's guitarist since the band's mid-'90s beginnings, Horton built the band's rap-metal breakout on a tight, mid-forward Marshall tone rather than a scooped Rectifier sound. The Infest-era rhythm is raw and aggressive by design — producer Jay Baumgardner and DreamWorks kept the record deliberately un-over-produced. Horton tracked his documented Marshall rig (JMP-1 preamp into an EL34 power amp, plus a JCM-series head) in Drop D, and only became a Schecter signature artist years later.