🎸 Metal · 2010s

Rules of Nature (Riff · Distorted) — Guitar Tone

by Metal Gear Rising · riff

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.

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Amp settings (0–10)

7.5
GAIN
5
BASS
5.5
MID
6.5
TREBLE
6
PRESENCE
1.5
REVERB

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.

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Settings are community-researched estimates, not official. GuitarToneAdapt adapts them to your gear. guitartoneadapt.com