The Holy Roller by Spiritbox guitar tone is built on a Modded Peavey 5150 / 6505+, dialed in at gain 7/10, bass 4.5, mid 6.5, treble 6.5, presence 6 (community-researched baseline). Full breakdown below — then adapt every knob to your exact guitar and amp, free.
🎛️ These settings are for the original rig — re-dial them for YOUR amp in 10 seconds. Free, no signup →Measured against the 28 metalcore tones in our researched catalog: Gain 7 sits right around the metalcore average (8.0); mids at 6.5 are above average (5.4).
Amp: Modded Peavey 5150 / 6505+ (Neural DSP Archetype: Gojira / Fractal Axe-Fx III)
Active humbuckers (Fishman Fluence Modern / Lundgren M7) for tight, articulate drop-tuned djent
Horizon Devices Precision Drive (tight modern overdrive boost), Fortin Zuul noise gate (ultra-tight gating for percussive djent chugs), High-gain amp: modded 5150/6505+ (Neural DSP Archetype: Gojira / Axe-Fx III), Upper-mid EQ boost (Tube Screamer-style) to tighten low end and add bite
crushing, ultra-tight, djent, percussive, ethereal cleans, mid-forward high-gain
Modern metalcore / djent, 2020; drop-tuned active 7-string into a boosted, gated 5150-style high-gain amp
explosive djent groove alternating ethereal cleans and brutal chugs, mid, heavily syncopated tempo, extreme — angelic cleans to crushing breakdowns dynamics · high-gain distortion. This shapes how hard the amp is pushed and where the EQ sits for the Holy Roller sound.
4/5
Both the playing (tight, fast, syncopated djent) and the tone (gated, boosted high-gain) are demanding — a real intermediate-to-advanced challenge.
Set your amp to roughly: gain 7, bass 4.5, mid 6.5, treble 6.5, presence 6, reverb 1. These are community-researched baselines — GuitarToneAdapt re-dials them for your exact guitar and amp.
Original gear/effects: Amp: Modded Peavey 5150 / 6505+ (Neural DSP Archetype: Gojira / Fractal Axe-Fx III); Horizon Devices Precision Drive (tight modern overdrive boost), Fortin Zuul noise gate (ultra-tight gating for percussive djent chugs), High-gain amp: modded 5150/6505+ (Neural DSP Archetype: Gojira / Axe-Fx III), Upper-mid EQ boost (Tube Screamer-style) to tighten low end and add bite.
Yes. Different guitars and amps need different knob positions to sound the same. GuitarToneAdapt models pickup output and wood brightness, then compensates so you match the record on your own rig.
Start with Active humbuckers (Fishman Fluence Modern / Lundgren M7) for tight, articulate drop-tuned djent, the amp EQ above (gain 7, bass 4.5, mid 6.5, treble 6.5, presence 6, reverb 1), and Horizon Devices Precision Drive (tight modern overdrive boost), Fortin Zuul noise gate (ultra-tight gating for percussive djent chugs), High-gain amp: modded 5150/6505+ (Neural DSP Archetype: Gojira / Axe-Fx III), Upper-mid EQ boost (Tube Screamer-style) to tighten low end and add bite. Then let GuitarToneAdapt compensate for the guitar, amp and pedals you actually own so it sits like the record.
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