Sleep Together
The album closes on the heaviest guitar sound Porcupine Tree ever committed to tape, and Wilson has described exactly how it was made: 'we had the Bad Cat Hot Cat in the studio, we also had a Diesel head, and were just going through a pretty generic 4x12 Celestion Greenback Marshall cab.' Two very different high-gain heads into one unglamorous cabinet, captured with 'a 58 and a 414.' The Greenbacks are the surprise -- almost nobody pairs a Diezel with vintage-voiced 25-watt speakers, and that mismatch is why this riff sounds thick and slightly woolly rather than modern and surgical.
Fear of a Blank Planet
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 5 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Gate, Studio Comp, Klon, Diezel VH4, 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 1 block missing from the file; 4 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Not in the file: Reverb. 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.
Replaced with a stand-in: Brown, Booster, Delay, 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.
