No. 1141997·alternative-metal·6 blocks
Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)
The dreamy, swinging Around the Fur single that pairs a clean, chorus-washed verse with a crushing Drop C# chorus. Stephen Carpenter played it on a 6-string ESP Horizon Custom with Seymour Duncan JB humbuckers — this is pre-EMG Carpenter — into an ADA MP-1 rack preamp and a Marshall 9200 power amp, with a Boss FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz for the gritty bite. Producer Terry Date kept it dry so the swing between shimmer and slam lands. Drop C#: C#-G#-C#-F#-A#-D#.
Signal path · input → output · 8 blocksLive values · Fractal Axe-Fx
Guitar
ESP Horizon Custom (6-string)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
drop_c_sharp
Noise Gate
Studio Comp
Octave Fuzz
Brit 800 Mod
Chorus
4x12 Greenback
Hall
Noise Gate
← Rack noise gate (FRFR essential)
Threshold
-52dB
Decay
0.2s
Level
0
Studio Comp
← Tracking compression
Threshold
-32dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
8s
Release
150s
Mix
0.4
Level
0dB
Octave Fuzz
← Boss FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz
Drive
6
Tone
6
Level
5
Brit 800 Mod
← ADA MP-1 → Marshall 9200
Drive
8
Bass
7
Mid
4
Treble
6
Presence
6
MV
5.5
Cut
4
Chorus
← Chorus (clean verse)
Rate
0.5Hz
Depth
35
Mix
30
4x12 Greenback
← Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
LowCut95Hz
HighCut9500Hz
Level
0dB
Hall
← Rocktron Intellifex
Mix
0.2
Decay
1.6s
Predelay
0.0ms
Engineer's note
File 114
The dreamy, swinging Around the Fur single that pairs a clean, chorus-washed verse with a crushing Drop C# chorus. Stephen Carpenter played it on a 6-string ESP Horizon Custom with Seymour Duncan JB humbuckers — this is pre-EMG Carpenter — into an ADA MP-1 rack preamp and a Marshall 9200 power amp, with a Boss FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz for the gritty bite. Producer Terry Date kept it dry so the swing between shimmer and slam lands. Drop C#: C#-G#-C#-F#-A#-D#.
— Stephen Carpenter
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