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 · Pedalboard
Guitar
Gibson Les Paul Standard (1978, sunburst)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Demeter TGP-3 tube preamp
VHT Classic stereo power amp
Two Marshall 4x12 cabinets (stereo)
Rocktron Intelliverb
Close mic on the 4x12 (model undocumented)
Demeter TGP-3 tube preamp
preamp
Gain
6
Bass
5
Middle
6
Treble
6
Presence
5
VHT Classic stereo power amp
power_amp
Volume
7
Rocktron Intelliverb
reverb
Mix
25
Decay
2s
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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