No. 1302003·nu-metal·5 blocks
Faint
Faint's signature guitar gesture is a fast, down-strummed Drop-D octave hook riding over Meteora's driving string section — bright, cutting, and relentless. Brad Delson tracked it on a PRS through a Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier, with a Marshall layered in (the first time Linkin Park blended amps), tuned Drop D a half step down. The tone has to slice through a dense electronic-and-strings arrangement, so it's pushed brighter and more present than the Hybrid Theory rhythm sound.
MeteoraSignal path · input → output · 4 blocksLive values · Boss Katana
Guitar
PRS Custom 24
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
drop_d
Noise Gate
Brown
Reverb
Noise Gate
← Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor
Threshold
55dB
Release
20s
Level
0
Brown
← Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier (Modern) + Marshall layer
Gain
78
Volume
50
Bass
50
Middle
50
Treble
78
Presence
70
Master
50
Reverb
← Studio room ambience
Time
3ms
PreDelay
10ms
Tone
55
EffectLevel
8
Engineer's note
File 130
Faint's signature guitar gesture is a fast, down-strummed Drop-D octave hook riding over Meteora's driving string section — bright, cutting, and relentless. Brad Delson tracked it on a PRS through a Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier, with a Marshall layered in (the first time Linkin Park blended amps), tuned Drop D a half step down. The tone has to slice through a dense electronic-and-strings arrangement, so it's pushed brighter and more present than the Hybrid Theory rhythm sound.
— Brad Delson
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