A Dangerous Meeting
The most theatrical band of 1984 got their guitar sound from the plainest rig on this list. Shermann has posted the setup himself: a self-painted Japanese Stratocaster with one DiMarzio Super Distortion, into 100-watt Marshall 1959 and 2203 heads. No rack, no processing -- the caustic, mid-spiked squawk everyone tries to reverse-engineer is a bolt-on guitar and a loud Plexi, doubled against Michael Denner's Flying V.
Don't Break the Oath
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 5 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Noise Gate, Studio Comp, Vermin Dist, Brit Plexi 100 Bright, 4x12 Greenback. 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 2 blocks missing from the file; 5 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Not in the file: Delay, Plate. The recipe calls for these blocks, but we have no verified model ID for them on this platform, so the preset is written without them. Add them by hand using the settings above.
Replaced with a stand-in: Crunch, Noise Gate, Distortion, Delay, Plate. 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.
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.
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