The Like a Stone by Audioslave guitar tone is built on a Marshall JCM800 2205, dialed in at gain 7/10, bass 7, mid 7.5, treble 7, presence 6.5 (community-researched baseline). Full breakdown below — then adapt every knob to your exact guitar and amp, free.
Community-researched baseline. Your rig is different — GuitarToneAdapt re-dials every knob for your specific guitar, amp and pickups.
Original gear
Amp: Marshall JCM800 2205 (50W, overdrive channel) into a Peavey 4x12
Pickups
bridge humbucker (Seymour Duncan Hot Rails)
Effects / signal chain
distortion, pitch-shifter, reverb
Tone character
thick mid-forward gain, Marshall chime, expressive, effects-driven
Recording context
studio
How it’s played
thick, mid-forward JCM800 high-gain distortion. This shapes how hard the amp is pushed and where the EQ sits for the Like a Stone sound.
What makes the Like a Stone part tricky
Whammy technique, kill-switch rhythms, expressive bends. GuitarToneAdapt gets the tone right so you can focus on the playing.
Note: Like a Stone is two sides: clean, arpeggiated verses (neck pickup, roll the volume back) and a soaring Whammy solo into the JCM800. For the solo you need a DigiTech Whammy., Tom Morello kept the same rig from Rage Against the Machine into Audioslave: a 50-watt Marshall JCM800 2205 (overdrive channel only) into a Peavey 4x12. His long-standing settings are roughly Presence 7, Bass high, Middle high, Treble 7, Gain ~9 — a thick, mid-forward high-gain with Marshall chime. (Sources vary between bass/mid maxed and bass/mid ~4 with treble up; the maxed version is the most-cited.), The signature moves are effects: a DigiTech Whammy (the Like a Stone solo, plus Cochise / Revelations) and a Boss DD-2/DD-3 delay set to a fast slapback with high feedback (the helicopter intro of Cochise). Guitars are his 'Soul Power' (Seymour Duncan Hot Rails, kill switch) and 'Arm the Homeless'., Settings are community-researched starting points, not official recall sheets — a Whammy and a slapback delay get you most of the way to the signature parts.