No. 1392000·nu-metal·4 blocks

Awake

The dense, militaristic palm-muted chug of Godsmack's second album title track. Tony Rombola tracked Awake through his Mesa/Boogie rig — close-miked with a Shure SM57 and a Sennheiser MD 421 into John Hardy M1 preamps and a Manley Massive Passive EQ, per the session's engineering notes. Played in drop C and produced by Sully Erna with Mudrock, it's a tight, aggressive rhythm tone with a controlled, defined low end built for the marching groove.

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Settings for
Signal path · input → output · 7 blocksLive values · Neural DSP Quad Cortex
Guitar
Gibson Les Paul (Custom/Standard era)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
drop C (C-G-C-F-A-D)
Noise Gate
Studio Comp
Recto
4x12 V30
Tilt EQ
Room Reverb
Noise Gate
← Noise gate
Cab
Threshold
-50dB
Decay
0.3s
Level
0
Studio Comp
← Light tracking compression
Dynamics
Threshold
-32dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
38s
Release
200s
Mix
35
Level
0dB
Recto
← Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier
Amp
Gain
7.5
Bass
6
Mid
5
Treble
6.5
Presence
6.5
Master
6
4x12 V30
← Mesa Recto 4x12 V30
Cab
LowCut100Hz
HighCut8000Hz
Level
0dB
Tilt EQ
← Global brightness EQ
EQ
Tilt
5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
Room Reverb
← Studio room ambience
Reverb
Decay
0.5s
Predelay
12ms
Mix
7
Level
0

Engineer's note

File 139
The dense, militaristic palm-muted chug of Godsmack's second album title track. Tony Rombola tracked Awake through his Mesa/Boogie rig — close-miked with a Shure SM57 and a Sennheiser MD 421 into John Hardy M1 preamps and a Manley Massive Passive EQ, per the session's engineering notes. Played in drop C and produced by Sully Erna with Mudrock, it's a tight, aggressive rhythm tone with a controlled, defined low end built for the marching groove.
Tony Rombola

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