No. 1781997·post-grunge·4 blocks
My Own Prison
The Drop-D title track from Creed's 1997 debut — Mark Tremonti's first signature riff, tracked on his 1986 red Gibson Les Paul (the famous 'My Own Prison' guitar, stolen on tour that year and returned to him in 2024). The album was cut cheaply with producer John Kurzweg, then remixed for the Wind-up reissue by Ron Saint-Germain. Tremonti has said he used 'three different rigs' and never named them; the most-cited reconstruction — a Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier for the heavy parts blended with a Fender Twin for cleans — is era-typical, not session-confirmed, and is flagged as such.
My Own PrisonSignal path · input → output · 5 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Gibson Les Paul (1986, red)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
Drop D (D-A-D-G-B-E)
Noise Gate
Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier (community-attributed)
Mesa/Boogie Rectifier 4x12 (Celestion Vintage 30)
Shure SM57
Noise Gate
noise_gate
Threshold
5dB
Decay
3s
Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier (community-attributed)
preamp
Gain
7.5
Bass
6
Middle
5
Treble
6
Presence
5
Master
5
Engineer's note
File 178
The Drop-D title track from Creed's 1997 debut — Mark Tremonti's first signature riff, tracked on his 1986 red Gibson Les Paul (the famous 'My Own Prison' guitar, stolen on tour that year and returned to him in 2024). The album was cut cheaply with producer John Kurzweg, then remixed for the Wind-up reissue by Ron Saint-Germain. Tremonti has said he used 'three different rigs' and never named them; the most-cited reconstruction — a Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier for the heavy parts blended with a Fender Twin for cleans — is era-typical, not session-confirmed, and is flagged as such.
— Mark Tremonti
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