Plush
Stone Temple Pilots' breakthrough — a brooding verse that swells into a soaring chorus. Dean DeLeo tracked Core on his 1978 sunburst Gibson Les Paul Standard through a Demeter TGP-3 tube preamp into a VHT Classic stereo power amp and two 4x12 cabinets — a refined, vintage-voiced crunch a cut above the grunge pack. Two myths to drop: it's standard E tuning (the droning low note is the open D string, not drop D), and there's no Mesa Mark IIB — that's a tone-blog guess. The spacious ambience on Plush is a Rocktron Intelliverb. Recorded at Rumbo Recorders with Brendan O'Brien.
Core
What we checked
Computed by a program, on this recipe, every time this page is built. How this works
Preset files — 0 of 3 complete
- Helix 1 block missing from the file
Which ones
Not in the file: 4x12 1960A T75. The recipe calls for this block, but we have no verified model ID for it on this platform, so the preset is written without it. Add it by hand using the settings above.
- Quad Cortex 4 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Studio Comp, Plexi, 4x12 Brit T75, Plate. 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: Crunch, 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.
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.
