No. 1031997·alternative-metal·6 blocks
My Own Summer (Shove It)
The dark, swinging anchor riff of Around the Fur. Stephen Carpenter played it on a custom ESP Horizon — a 6-string, not a 7-string, loaded with Seymour Duncan JB humbuckers (this is pre-EMG Carpenter) — tuned to Drop C#. The core grind is an ADA MP-1 rack preamp into a Marshall 9200 power amp, with a Boss FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz adding the gritty upper-octave bite. Producer Terry Date kept it dry and percussive so the detuned chug stays articulate. Drop C#: C#-G#-C#-F#-A#-D#.
Around the FurSignal 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
4x12 Greenback
Hall
Filter Tilt
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
4x12 Greenback
← Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
LowCut95Hz
HighCut9500Hz
Level
0dB
Hall
← Rocktron Intellifex
Mix
0.1
Decay
1.4s
Predelay
0.0ms
Filter Tilt
← Tilt EQ (global brightness)
Tilt
0.5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 103
The dark, swinging anchor riff of Around the Fur. Stephen Carpenter played it on a custom ESP Horizon — a 6-string, not a 7-string, loaded with Seymour Duncan JB humbuckers (this is pre-EMG Carpenter) — tuned to Drop C#. The core grind is an ADA MP-1 rack preamp into a Marshall 9200 power amp, with a Boss FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz adding the gritty upper-octave bite. Producer Terry Date kept it dry and percussive so the detuned chug stays articulate. Drop C#: C#-G#-C#-F#-A#-D#.
— Stephen Carpenter
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