Every Breath You Take
The riff isn't strummed; it's an arpeggio with an added ninth where the third would be, played in one take after Sting told Summers to make the part his own. The guitar is his modified early-'60s Telecaster, and the sound is a Roland JC-120 with its built-in chorus on, one speaker dry and one chorused, close-miked and panned hard left and right. Everything distinctive about it is that stereo split. The Marshalls in the studio were for the guitar synth, not this part.
Synchronicity
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: LA Compressor, Vintage Chorus, Jazz 120, 2x12 Jazz Cab. 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: Clean, Chorus, 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.
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.
