No. 1802006·sludge-metal·4 blocks
Colony of Birchmen
The chiming, harmonized main riff from Mastodon's Blood Mountain single. Bill Kelliher and Brent Hinds track dual guitars in D standard (D-G-C-F-A-D) — a whole step below concert — for the thick, ringing weight the riff hangs on. Kelliher's confirmed Blood Mountain amp was a Laney VH100R (later auctioned) driving an Orange 4x12, with a Tube Screamer tightening the front end; Hinds layers a Marshall JMP / Diezel side for width. Recorded by Matt Bayles at Studio Litho. The Marshall JCM800 Kerry King and Friedman signature heads came later — not this record.
Blood MountainSignal path · input → output · 5 blocksLive values · Boss Katana
Guitar
Gibson Les Paul Custom (Silverburst)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
D standard
Noise Gate
Brown
Booster
Reverb
Noise Gate
← FRFR gate (tightness)
Threshold
50dB
Release
20s
Level
0
Brown
← Laney VH100R (British high-gain)
Gain
72
Volume
60
Bass
50
Middle
62
Treble
60
Presence
60
Master
60
Booster
← Ibanez Tube Screamer
Drive
20
Bottom
45
Tone
60
Level
70
Reverb
← Studio ambience (dry mix)
Time
5ms
PreDelay
10ms
Tone
52
EffectLevel
8
Engineer's note
File 180
The chiming, harmonized main riff from Mastodon's Blood Mountain single. Bill Kelliher and Brent Hinds track dual guitars in D standard (D-G-C-F-A-D) — a whole step below concert — for the thick, ringing weight the riff hangs on. Kelliher's confirmed Blood Mountain amp was a Laney VH100R (later auctioned) driving an Orange 4x12, with a Tube Screamer tightening the front end; Hinds layers a Marshall JMP / Diezel side for width. Recorded by Matt Bayles at Studio Litho. The Marshall JCM800 Kerry King and Friedman signature heads came later — not this record.
— Bill Kelliher
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