No. 2581992·grunge·5 blocks

Them Bones

Dirt opens with this riff, and it sounds like one massive guitar. It's actually six tracks. Dave Jerden split Cantrell's G&L Rampage across three rigs, each covering one frequency band: a Bogner Fish preamp into a VHT for the lows, a Bogner Ecstasy for the mids and a Rockman direct for the highs. He then doubled each one and panned the pairs apart. The song is in drop D tuned down a half step, and it's played dry. There's no flanger like Rooster has, just the split and the odd-meter riff.

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Settings for
Signal path · input → output · 7 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
1984 G&L Rampage 'Blue Dress'
Pickups
H (bridge)
Tuning
Drop C#
Strings
.010-.052
Noise Gate
Deluxe Comp
German Mahadeva
4x12 Greenback25
Parametric
Room
Noise Gate
← Gain-structure housekeeping
Effect
Threshold
-50dB
Decay
10s
Deluxe Comp
← Console / tape compression
Dynamics
Threshold
-18dB
Ratio
2.5:1
Knee
4dB
Attack
20ms
Release
120ms
Mix
30
Level
0dB
German Mahadeva
← Bogner Ecstasy (mid band) -- the band to build if you build one
Amp
Drive
6
Bass
5
Mid
6.5
Treble
5.5
Presence
5
ChVol
6
Master
6
Bias
5.5
BiasX
5
Sag
4
Hum
3
Ripple
3
4x12 Greenback25
← Marshall 4x12 with Vox Bulldogs
Cab
LowCut80Hz
HighCut6800Hz
Resonance
5
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Parametric
← The three-band blend
EQ
LowFreq
110
LowGain
1.5
MidFreq
700
MidGain
-1.5
HighFreq
3200
HighGain
1.5
Level
0
Room
← Mixdown ambience
Reverb
LowCut250Hz
HighCut6000Hz
Mix
8
Decay
0.8s
Predelay
10ms
Level
0

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 5 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
    Which ones

    Replaced with a stand-in: Noise Gate, Studio Compressor, Ecstasy Red, 4x12 Marshall Bulldog, Room 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 1 block missing from the file; 3 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
    Which ones

    Not in the file: Reverb. The recipe calls for this block, but we have no verified model ID for it on this platform, so the preset is written without it. Add it by hand using the settings above.

    Replaced with a stand-in: Lead, Noise Suppressor, 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.

Helix DSP
57.8% of one chip — fits
Sources
4 cited, 3 from publications that do original gear reporting
Attribution
Documented — The player is named for this specific part in credits or an interview.
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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