No. 1672015·hard-rock·5 blocks
Cut the Cord
The pummeling lead single from Shinedown's 2015 album Threat to Survival. Zach Myers tracked it on a PRS SE tuned a whole step down to D standard with heavy .011-.052 strings, run through his Axe-Fx II -- patches built on a Diezel Herbert and a Fryette -- into a Diamond 4x12. It's a tight, percussive, low-tuned chug with a noise gate clamping the chug-stops, the kind of modern high-gain rhythm that lives on right-hand mute control.
Threat to SurvivalSignal path · input → output · 6 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
PRS SE Custom (singlecut)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
D standard (D-G-C-F-A-D), whole step down
Noise Gate
Tube Screamer-style boost
Fractal Axe-Fx II (Diezel Herbert / Fryette)
Diamond 4x12 (Celestion V30)
Shure SM57 (assumed)
Noise Gate
noise_gate
Threshold
-50dB
Tube Screamer-style boost
overdrive
Drive
1
Tone
6
Level
7
Fractal Axe-Fx II (Diezel Herbert / Fryette)
preamp
Gain
7
Bass
6
Middle
5
Treble
6
Presence
6
Master
5
Engineer's note
File 167
The pummeling lead single from Shinedown's 2015 album Threat to Survival. Zach Myers tracked it on a PRS SE tuned a whole step down to D standard with heavy .011-.052 strings, run through his Axe-Fx II -- patches built on a Diezel Herbert and a Fryette -- into a Diamond 4x12. It's a tight, percussive, low-tuned chug with a noise gate clamping the chug-stops, the kind of modern high-gain rhythm that lives on right-hand mute control.
— Zach Myers
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