No. 0821992·grunge·4 blocks

Yellow Ledbetter

Cut at the Ten sessions but left off the album, Yellow Ledbetter is McCready's love letter to Hendrix's Little Wing — warm, bell-like clean chords with thumb-fretted bass notes and major-pentatonic fills, drenched in studio reverb. The documented guitar is a Fender '57 reissue Strat with a maple neck (not the black '62 he used elsewhere on Ten). The amp isn't named in any source, so this builds the clean Fender voice his Ten rig points to.

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Settings for
Signal path · input → output · 8 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster ('57 Reissue, maple neck)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
neck
Strings
standard
Volume Pedal
Deluxe Comp
Scream 808
Tweed Blues Nrm
4x10 Tweed P10R
Plate
Tilt
Volume Pedal
← Volume pedal
Volume/Pan
Pedal
100%
Deluxe Comp
← Studio compression
Dynamics
Threshold
-32dB
Ratio
2:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
100ms
Release
900ms
Mix
60
Level
0dB
Scream 808
← Optional bloom boost
Distortion
Gain
1.5
Tone
5
Level
7
Tweed Blues Nrm
← Fender Bassman (inferred)
Amp
Drive
2.5
Bass
5
Mid
5
Treble
6
Presence
5
ChVol
5.5
Master
10
Bias
5
BiasX
5
Sag
5.5
Hum
5
Ripple
5
4x10 Tweed P10R
← Fender 4x10 (Bassman-style)
Cab
LowCut90Hz
HighCut8500Hz
Resonance
0.5
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Plate
← Studio plate / EMT (Ten ambience)
Reverb
LowCut120Hz
HighCut8000Hz
Mix
32
Decay
0.7s
Predelay
20ms
Level
0
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 3 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
    Which ones

    Replaced with a stand-in: LA Compressor, Tweed Bass, 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, Boost, Reverb. 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
54% of one chip — fits (1 block has no published cost and is counted as zero)
Sources
3 cited, 2 from publications that do original gear reporting
Attribution
Not yet ratedThis 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.
The mic in this chain

Shure SM57

Still made, still the studio default. The cheapest part of this chain to get right.

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