No. 1861997·alternative·4 blocks
Monkey Wrench
Monkey Wrench opens The Colour and the Shape at a full sprint — a frantic single-note main riff and a chorus wall of high-gain distortion. Dave Grohl tracked the heavy parts on his Gibson Trini Lopez semi-hollow through a Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier, with the lighter verse and the bridge breakdown leaning on a Vox AC30. Producer Gil Norton double-tracked the rhythm hard left and right, and the dirt is all amp — no distortion pedals.
The Colour and the ShapeSignal path · input → output · 5 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Gibson Trini Lopez Standard
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor
Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier (Modern channel)
Mesa/Boogie 4x12 Rectifier Cab (V30)
Shure SM57
Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor
noise_gate
Threshold
4dB
Decay
6s
Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier (Modern channel)
preamp
Gain
8
Bass
6
Middle
4
Treble
7
Presence
6
Master
4
Engineer's note
File 186
Monkey Wrench opens The Colour and the Shape at a full sprint — a frantic single-note main riff and a chorus wall of high-gain distortion. Dave Grohl tracked the heavy parts on his Gibson Trini Lopez semi-hollow through a Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier, with the lighter verse and the bridge breakdown leaning on a Vox AC30. Producer Gil Norton double-tracked the rhythm hard left and right, and the dirt is all amp — no distortion pedals.
— Dave Grohl
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