Slither
Slash's swaggering, Drop D main riff from Velvet Revolver's 2004 debut Contraband — a Les Paul into cranked Marshall. Producer Josh Abraham cut the band mostly live at NRG and Pulse (engineer Ryan Williams, mixed by Andy Wallace), tracking guitars through SM57s. The distortion is Slash's signature Marshall stack — a Frank-Levi-modded JCM800 2203 and his JCM 2555SL Silver Jubilee signature — with a Tube Screamer tightening the front end. Confirmed Drop D (D-A-D-G-B-E), not Eb.
Contraband
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: Studio Comp, Green Scream, Brit 2203, Tilt EQ, Room 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.
- Katana 3 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Crunch, Green Scream, Room. 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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