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 · 7 blocksLive values · Neural DSP Quad Cortex
Guitar
Gibson Les Paul (1986, red)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
Drop D (D-A-D-G-B-E)
Noise Gate
Studio Comp
Recto2 Modern
4x12 Recto
Plate
Tilt EQ
Noise Gate
← Noise gate
Threshold
-50dB
Decay
0.3s
Level
0
Studio Comp
← Light tracking compression
Threshold
-32dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
38s
Release
200s
Mix
35
Level
0dB
Recto2 Modern
← Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier (community-attributed)
Gain
7.5
Bass
6
Mid
5
Treble
6
Presence
5
Master
6
Sag
5
4x12 Recto
← Mesa Recto 4x12 (V30)
LowCut90Hz
HighCut8000Hz
Level
0dB
Plate
← Studio ambience
Decay
1s
Predelay
14ms
Mix
8
Level
0
Tilt EQ
← Global brightness EQ
Tilt
5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
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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