Open Casket
The crushing opener of The Sword's 2006 debut Age of Winters -- the record that helped relaunch riff-first retro doom for a new generation. J.D. Cronise tracked it DIY in Austin, self-produced, tuned two whole steps down to C standard. The voice is a thick, mid-rich British high-gain crunch: live, Cronise runs a 1979 Gibson Explorer into a cranked Orange OR100 and a 4x12 of Vintage 30s, but the debut itself was cut on a borrowed Laney AOR pushed by a Maxon DS-830 Distortion Master.
Age of Winters
What we checked
Computed by a program, on this recipe, every time this page is built. How this works
Preset files — 0 of 3 complete
- Helix 1 block missing from the file
Which ones
Not in the file: 4x12 Mandarin. 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.
- Quad Cortex 6 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Gate, Studio Comp, Vermin Dist, Brit 2203, 2x12 Orange V30, 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 3 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Lead, Booster, 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.
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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