No. 1582017·hard-rock·4 blocks

Highway Tune

Greta Van Fleet's breakout #1 rock single, tracked at Rustbelt Studios in Michigan with Marlon Young and Al Sutton. Jake Kiszka's tone is unapologetically Page-meets-Zeppelin: his 1961 Gibson SG 'The Beloved' through a Rangemaster-style germanium treble booster into a cranked Marshall Plexi-style head and a 4x12. Bright, raw, and snarling -- the treble booster is the whole secret. Standard E tuning.

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Settings for
Signal path · input → output · 7 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
1961 Gibson SG ('The Beloved')
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
Standard E (E-A-D-G-B-E)
Deluxe Comp
Kinky Boost
Brit Plexi Brt
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
Kinky Boost
← Jext Telez Range Lord (Rangemaster treble booster)
Distortion
Drive
7
Gain
7
Tone
8
Level
7
Brit Plexi Brt
← Marshall Super Lead Plexi
Amp
Drive
7
Bass
5
Mid
7
Treble
7
Presence
6
ChVol
9
Master
9
Bias
5
BiasX
5
Sag
6
Hum
5
Ripple
5
4x12 Greenback 25
← Marshall 4x12 (Celestion)
Cab
LowCut90Hz
HighCut8000Hz
Resonance
0.5
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Plate
← EHX Holy Grail / Rustbelt room
Reverb
LowCut220Hz
HighCut7000Hz
Mix
12
Decay
1.2s
Predelay
16ms
Level
0
Tilt
← Brightness shaping
Effect
Tilt
5.5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
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, Treble Booster, Brit Plexi 100, 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
59.3% of one chip — fits
Sources
3 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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