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 · 5 blocksLive values · Boss Katana
Guitar
ESP Horizon Custom (6-string)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
drop_c_sharp
Noise Gate
Booster
Lead
Reverb
Noise Gate
← Rack noise gate (FRFR essential)
Threshold
52dB
Release
20s
Level
0
Booster
← Boss FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz
Drive
60
Bottom
55
Tone
60
Level
55
Lead
← ADA MP-1 → Marshall 9200
Gain
80
Volume
60
Bass
70
Middle
40
Treble
60
Presence
60
Master
60
Reverb
← Rocktron Intellifex
Time
18ms
PreDelay
25ms
Tone
45
EffectLevel
14
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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