The Rules of Nature by Metal Gear Rising guitar tone is built on a Tight modern metalcore high-gain, dialed in at gain 7.5/10, bass 5, mid 5.5, treble 6.5, presence 6 (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: Tight modern metalcore high-gain (exact rig not documented)
Pickups
bridge (high-output, downtuned)
Effects / signal chain
distortion, noise gate
Tone character
tight modern metalcore, chuggy and melodic, gated, high-gain
Recording context
studio
How it’s played
tight modern metalcore high-gain distortion. This shapes how hard the amp is pushed and where the EQ sits for the Rules of Nature sound.
What makes the Rules of Nature part tricky
tight palm-muting, melodic leads, downtuning. GuitarToneAdapt gets the tone right so you can focus on the playing.
Note: Rules of Nature exact rig is not documented, so this is an educated modern-metalcore estimate. The tone is a tight, high-gain metalcore sound: palm-muted chugs, melodic leads, downtuned-ish, hard-gated. Keep the low end tight., Tune down a bit, use a tight high-gain amp with a hard gate, mids present, and palm-mute precisely; add reverb/delay for the soaring leads., Settings are estimated by genre, not from an official rig rundown.