No. 0371993·alternative·3 blocks

Creep

Creep's dynamic shift from delicate clean arpeggios to crushing distorted chords is one of the most dramatic in rock. Greenwood's Telecaster Plus runs through a Fender Eighty Five amp for the clean verses. Before each chorus, he smashes the strings with a Marshall Shredmaster engaged, creating that iconic crunching noise that signals the heavy section. The contrast between whisper-quiet cleans and massive distortion defines the song.

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Settings for
Signal path · input → output · 8 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Fender Telecaster Plus
Pickups
SS
Tuning
neck
Strings
standard
Volume Pedal
Deluxe Comp
Vermin Dist
US DLX 64
1x12 US Deluxe
Spring
Tilt
Volume Pedal
← Volume pedal
Volume/Pan
Pedal
100%
Deluxe Comp
← Studio compressor
Dynamics
Threshold
-34dB
Ratio
2:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
38ms
Release
200ms
Mix
50
Level
0dB
Vermin Dist
← Marshall Shredmaster
Distortion
Gain
9
Tone
6
Level
8
US DLX 64
← Fender Eighty Five
Amp
Drive
3
Bass
5
Mid
5
Treble
6
Presence
5
ChVol
6
Master
10
Bias
5.5
BiasX
5
Sag
5.5
Hum
5
Ripple
5
1x12 US Deluxe
← Fender Eighty Five 1x12
Cab
LowCut19.9Hz
HighCut20100Hz
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Spring
← Studio room/spring
Reverb
LowCut200Hz
HighCut6500Hz
Mix
18
Decay
1s
Predelay
20ms
Tilt
← Tilt EQ (global brightness)
EQ
Tilt
0.5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0

What we checked

Computed by a program, on this recipe, every time this page is built. How this works

Preset files — 1 of 3 complete
  • Helix builds complete — every block in the recipe is in the file
  • Quad Cortex 5 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
    Which ones

    Replaced with a stand-in: Studio Comp, Search Cortex Cloud for 'Marshall Shredmaster' capture, US DLX 64, 1x12 Fender, Tilt EQ. These load cleanly but are not the model named above — the file will sound wrong here until we map them. Set these blocks by hand.

  • Katana 3 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
    Which ones

    Replaced with a stand-in: Clean, HM-2, Spring. These load cleanly but are not the model named above — the file will sound wrong here until we map them. Set these blocks by hand.

Helix DSP
21.8% of one chip — fits (2 blocks have no published cost and are counted as zero)
Sources
2 cited, 1 from publications that do original gear reporting
Attribution
Not yet rated — This recipe predates the attribution-confidence field and hasn't been reviewed for it.
What we didn't check
  • Nobody played this through a real amp. There is no human listening test behind any number on this page.
  • The settings are reasoned from the sources below, not measured off the record.
  • No audio has been rendered for this recipe yet, so you cannot hear it before you load it.
  • 3 platforms on this page (TONEX, Kemper, Fractal) get a model pointer, not a preset file — nothing was built or checked for them.

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