No. 1612005·hard-rock·4 blocks

Dimension

Wolfmother's heavy, psych-tinged riff from their 2005 self-titled debut, cut with producer Dave Sardy at Sound City and Sunset Sound. Andrew Stockdale's tone is pure '70s revival: his '73 Gibson SG slammed into a cranked ~50-watt Marshall Plexi, with a green-Russian Big Muff supplying the fuzz wall. Sardy patched amps and pedals per-section from a huge studio pool, so the rig is album-documented rather than track-isolated. Standard E.

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Settings for
Signal path · input → output · 7 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
1973 Gibson SG
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
Standard E (E-A-D-G-B-E)
Deluxe Comp
Triangle Fuzz
Brit Plexi Nrm
4x12 Greenback 25
Plate
Tilt
Deluxe Comp
← Light tracking compression
Dynamics
Threshold
-28dB
Ratio
2:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
40ms
Release
180ms
Mix
25
Level
0dB
Triangle Fuzz
← EHX Big Muff (green Russian)
Distortion
Drive
8
Gain
8
Tone
4
Level
6
Brit Plexi Nrm
← Marshall Super Lead Plexi (~50W)
Amp
Drive
5
Bass
6
Mid
6
Treble
6
Presence
5
ChVol
8
Master
8
Bias
5
BiasX
5
Sag
6
Hum
5
Ripple
5
4x12 Greenback 25
← Marshall 4x12 (inferred)
Cab
LowCut80Hz
HighCut7000Hz
Resonance
0.5
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Plate
← Studio room ambience
Reverb
LowCut200Hz
HighCut6500Hz
Mix
12
Decay
1.4s
Predelay
18ms
Level
0
Tilt
← Global tone shaping
Effect
Tilt
4.5
CenterFreq
900Hz
Level
0

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 4 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
    Which ones

    Replaced with a stand-in: Studio Comp, Green Russian Fuzz, Plexi 100W High, 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 3 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
    Which ones

    Replaced with a stand-in: Brown, Booster, 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.

Helix DSP
61.7% of one chip — fits
Sources
2 cited, 1 from publications that do original gear reporting
Attribution
Not yet rated — This recipe predates the attribution-confidence field and hasn't been reviewed for it.
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.
The mic in this chain

Shure SM57

The source doesn't name the mic — this is the standard choice for this sound, and what the chain above assumes.

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