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Stephen Carpenter
Deftones' guitarist, who fused crushing low-tuned riffs with shoegaze atmosphere. On the early records he drove a custom ESP Horizon loaded with Seymour Duncans into an ADA MP-1 / Marshall power-amp rig, leaning on a Boss Hyper Fuzz for the gritty upper-octave bite. He later became one of the most prominent EMG-equipped extended-range players in metal.
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