🎸 Metalcore · 2020

Holy Roller (Riff · Distorted) — Guitar Tone

by Spiritbox · riff

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.

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Amp settings (0–10)

7
GAIN
4.5
BASS
6.5
MID
6.5
TREBLE
6
PRESENCE
1
REVERB

Community-researched baseline. Your rig is different — GuitarToneAdapt re-dials every knob for your specific guitar, amp and pickups.

Original gear

Amp: Modded Peavey 5150 / 6505+ (Neural DSP Archetype: Gojira / Fractal Axe-Fx III)

Pickups

Active humbuckers (Fishman Fluence Modern / Lundgren M7) for tight, articulate drop-tuned djent

Effects / signal chain

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

Tone character

crushing, ultra-tight, djent, percussive, ethereal cleans, mid-forward high-gain

Recording context

Modern metalcore / djent, 2020; drop-tuned active 7-string into a boosted, gated 5150-style high-gain amp

How it’s played

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.

What makes the Holy Roller part tricky

drop-tuned 7-string with fast, tight palm-muted djent syncopation, precise pick-scrape and percussive attack, huge dynamic shifts from ethereal clean to brutal chug, dialling an ultra-tight gated high-gain tone. GuitarToneAdapt gets the tone right so you can focus on the playing.

Note: Tightness is everything: cut the bass, push the mids, and run a tight overdrive (Horizon Precision Drive) + a hard noise gate (Fortin Zuul) into a high-gain 5150-style amp. Gain 5-7, not maxed. Drop-tuned 7-string with active pickups. Knob numbers are community-researched estimates.

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