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 · 7 blocksLive values · Neural DSP Quad Cortex
Guitar
PRS Custom 24
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
drop_d
Gate
LA Compressor
Recto
4x12 Recto V30
Room
Graphic EQ
Gate
← Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor
Threshold
-48dB
Decay
20s
LA Compressor
← Light studio compression
Threshold
-30dB
Ratio
3:1
Attack
4s
Release
120s
Mix
50
Level
0dB
Recto
← Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier (Modern) + Marshall layer
Gain
7
Bass
5
Mid
5
Treble
8
Presence
7
Master
4.5
Sag
4.5
4x12 Recto V30
← Mesa Recto 4x12 (Celestion V30)
LowCut85Hz
HighCut9000Hz
Level
0dB
Room
← Studio room ambience
Decay
0.6s
Predelay
10ms
Mix
10
Level
0
Graphic EQ
← Global brightness adjustment
100Hz
0
330Hz
0
1kHz
1
3.3kHz
1
10kHz
0
Level
0
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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