No. 1352000·nu-metal·5 blocks
Down with the Sickness
The cabinet-busting drop-C# groove of Disturbed's signature song. Dan Donegan tracked The Sickness through a Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifier with Johnny K at Groovemaster Studios — a tight, mid-present high-gain rhythm built for syncopation and bounce rather than speed. The eerie siren that opens the track is a DigiTech Whammy pitch-dive. Heavy GHS strings and a controlled low end keep the very low tuning from collapsing into mud.
The SicknessSignal path · input → output · 6 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Gibson (Les Paul / SG era, pre-Washburn)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
drop C# (C#-G#-C#-F#-A#-D#)
Noise Gate
DigiTech Whammy (II)
Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifier (Modern channel)
Mesa/Boogie 4x12 (Celestion Vintage 30)
Shure SM57 + Sennheiser MD421
Noise Gate
noise_gate
Threshold
5dB
Decay
3s
DigiTech Whammy (II)
pitch
Mix
100
Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifier (Modern channel)
preamp
Gain
7.5
Bass
6
Middle
4.5
Treble
7
Presence
6.5
Master
4
Engineer's note
File 135
The cabinet-busting drop-C# groove of Disturbed's signature song. Dan Donegan tracked The Sickness through a Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifier with Johnny K at Groovemaster Studios — a tight, mid-present high-gain rhythm built for syncopation and bounce rather than speed. The eerie siren that opens the track is a DigiTech Whammy pitch-dive. Heavy GHS strings and a controlled low end keep the very low tuning from collapsing into mud.
— Dan Donegan
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