Numb amp settings — M-Vave Blackbox

The LINKIN PARK guitar tone for “Numb”, dialed in for a M-Vave Blackbox with a Giannini Stratocaster. Studio version, Meteora (2003) — Main heavy rhythm riff and chorus

Original rig

PRS Custom 24 into Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier (Channel 3 Modern) blended with Marshall 1959SLP Plexi, tracked via 4x12 cabs

Thick, saturated nu-metal rhythm wall of sound with tight low-end and biting upper mids

Amp settings — M-Vave Blackbox

CHANNELUS Rectifier / Modern High Gain amp model + 4x12 V30 Cab IRBRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	6
Mid	5
Treble	6
Presence	7
Reverb	0
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01TS-Style Overdrive Block (M-Vave Blackbox)

Used as a clean pre-boost to tighten the single-coil low end before the high-gain amp model

Drive 0 · Tone 6 · Level 8

02Noise Gate Block (M-Vave Blackbox)

Essential for clamping tight nu-metal staccato stops without background hiss

Threshold 6 · Decay 3

Why these settings

To compensate for the Giannini Stratocaster's lower-output single-coil pickups compared to Brad Delson's humbucker-equipped PRS, the TS overdrive block is set as a clean boost to tighten bass and saturate the front end. The guitar tone knob is pulled back to 8 to tame excess bridge single-coil harshness while keeping the Rectifier model's signature low-end punch. Clean verse: bypass the overdrive and amp gain blocks to switch to an onboard clean channel model with subtle delay.

PRO TIPBrad Delson recorded the heavy rhythm parts using Drop-C# tuning (Drop Db: Db-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb); tune your Strat down and hit the power chords with heavy, consistent downstrokes close to the bridge for maximum percussive impact.

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