Knights of Cydonia
The surf-western gallop that opens this song is a different rig from the fuzz-and-Whammy riff tone Muse are usually copied for. By Black Holes and Revelations the amp had become a Diezel VH4 rather than a cranked Marshall, and the defining effect on the lead is an MXR Phase 90 rather than the Fuzz Factory -- a phaser's slow sweep over a tremolo-picked line is what gives the part its shimmering, widescreen quality.
Black Holes and Revelations
What we checked
Computed by a program, on this recipe, every time this page is built. How this works
Preset files — 1 of 3 complete
- Helix builds complete — every block in the recipe is in the file
- Quad Cortex 3 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Studio Compressor, Das Metall, Hall Reverb. These load cleanly but are not the model named above — the file will sound wrong here until we map them. Set these blocks by hand.
- Katana 3 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Brown, Tube Screamer, Hall. These load cleanly but are not the model named above — the file will sound wrong here until we map them. Set these blocks by hand.
What we didn't check
- Nobody played this through a real amp. There is no human listening test behind any number on this page.
- The settings are reasoned from the sources below, not measured off the record.
- No audio has been rendered for this recipe yet, so you cannot hear it before you load it.
- 3 platforms on this page (TONEX, Kemper, Fractal) get a model pointer, not a preset file — nothing was built or checked for them.
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