No. 0951992·grunge·5 blocks
Plush
Stone Temple Pilots' breakthrough — a brooding verse that swells into a soaring chorus. Dean DeLeo tracked Core on his 1978 sunburst Gibson Les Paul Standard through a Demeter TGP-3 tube preamp into a VHT Classic stereo power amp and two 4x12 cabinets — a refined, vintage-voiced crunch a cut above the grunge pack. Two myths to drop: it's standard E tuning (the droning low note is the open D string, not drop D), and there's no Mesa Mark IIB — that's a tone-blog guess. The spacious ambience on Plush is a Rocktron Intelliverb. Recorded at Rumbo Recorders with Brendan O'Brien.
CoreSignal path · input → output · 6 blocksLive values · Fractal Axe-Fx
Guitar
Gibson Les Paul Standard (1978, sunburst)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Studio Comp
Plexi 100W High
4x12 Brit T75
Plate
Filter Tilt
Studio Comp
← Studio compression
Threshold
-34dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
8s
Release
250s
Mix
0.6
Level
0dB
Plexi 100W High
← Demeter TGP-3 → VHT Classic
Drive
5.5
Bass
5
Mid
6
Treble
6
Presence
5.5
MV
6
Cut
4
4x12 Brit T75
← Two Marshall 4x12s (stereo)
LowCut80Hz
HighCut11000Hz
Level
0dB
Plate
← Rocktron Intelliverb
Mix
0.2
Decay
0.8s
Predelay
0.0ms
Filter Tilt
← Tilt EQ (global brightness)
Tilt
0.5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 095
Stone Temple Pilots' breakthrough — a brooding verse that swells into a soaring chorus. Dean DeLeo tracked Core on his 1978 sunburst Gibson Les Paul Standard through a Demeter TGP-3 tube preamp into a VHT Classic stereo power amp and two 4x12 cabinets — a refined, vintage-voiced crunch a cut above the grunge pack. Two myths to drop: it's standard E tuning (the droning low note is the open D string, not drop D), and there's no Mesa Mark IIB — that's a tone-blog guess. The spacious ambience on Plush is a Rocktron Intelliverb. Recorded at Rumbo Recorders with Brendan O'Brien.
— Dean DeLeo
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