custer amp settings — Two Rock Classic Reverb Signature

The Slipknot guitar tone for “custer”, dialed in for a Two Rock Classic Reverb Signature with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Studio version, .5: The Gray Chapter (2014)

Original rig

Mesa Boogie Dual/Triple Rectifier (Modern High Gain channel), Ibanez MTM signature & Fender Jim Root Telecaster with EMG 81/60 pickups, Orange Rockerverb for some tracks, no traditional pedals—tone from amp gain and studio processing

Massively scooped, tight and percussive modern metal with aggressive palm-muted low-end chug and fizzy high-gain saturation

Amp settings — Two Rock Classic Reverb Signature

CHANNELLead channel (or highest gain channel available)BRIGHToffBOOSTon

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	8
Bass	4
Mid	3
Treble	7
Presence	6
Reverb	0
Master	5

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Guitar

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Signal chain

01Tube Screamer (TS9 or clone)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Essential for tightening low-end on high-gain tones. Run into amp input with Drive at 0 (clean boost mode) to cut flub and add pick attack definition.

Drive 0 · Tone 6 · Level 8

02Noise Gate (ISP Decimator or similar)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Critical for the tight stop-start riffs in this song. Single coils will be noisy at this gain level without one.

Threshold 7

Why these settings

This is an extreme mismatch: the original uses 7-string guitars with active humbuckers through high-gain Rectifiers, and you have a single-coil Strat through a boutique clean amp. The Two Rock is a Fender-voiced platform amp designed for touch-sensitive cleans and edge-of-breakup—it cannot produce Rectifier-style saturation. I pushed gain to max and scooped mids to approximate the voicing, but you will not achieve the wall-of-sound chug without a high-gain distortion pedal acting as your primary gain source. The TS recommendation is a band-aid; a proper metal distortion (Pro Co RAT, Boss HM-2, or Revv G3) would get closer.

PRO TIPPalm mute HARD directly over the bridge saddles—Slipknot's tight chug comes from extremely precise right-hand muting combined with the noise gate clamping between hits. Without a gate, let your palm stay planted and lift only for accents.

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