The Suffocate by Knocked Loose guitar tone is built on a EVH 5150 / Bogner Überschall, dialed in at gain 8/10, bass 5.5, mid 6, treble 6, 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 8 sits right around the metalcore average (8.0); mids at 6 are right around average (5.4).
Amp: EVH 5150 / Bogner Überschall (Neural DSP Quad Cortex modeling 5150 III live)
High-output / active 7-string humbuckers (DiMarzio Fusion Edge) for crushing, defined drop-A chug
Way Huge Swollen Pickle fuzz / Maxon ST9 or TS9 Tube Screamer boost (grit + tightness), High-gain amp: EVH 5150 / 5150 III / Bogner Überschall 'hell tone' (Neural DSP Quad Cortex live), ISP Decimator II noise gate (dead-tight breakdown stops), Boss DD-3 delay / CE-5 chorus for texture
brutal, crushing, ultra-low, tight breakdowns, gated, high-gain
Modern hardcore/metalcore, 2024; Drop-A 7-string into a boosted, hard-gated 5150 / Bogner Uberschall
crushing modern hardcore/metalcore — pummeling breakdowns with dynamic clean-sung sections, mid, heavy and pummeling tempo, extreme — eerie cleans to bone-crushing breakdowns dynamics · high-gain distortion. This shapes how hard the amp is pushed and where the EQ sits for the Suffocate sound.
3/5
More about brutal groove, tightness and tone than fast technique — the low tuning, gated high-gain and heavy feel define it.
Set your amp to roughly: gain 8, bass 5.5, mid 6, treble 6, presence 6, reverb 0. These are community-researched baselines — GuitarToneAdapt re-dials them for your exact guitar and amp.
Original gear/effects: Amp: EVH 5150 / Bogner Überschall (Neural DSP Quad Cortex modeling 5150 III live); Way Huge Swollen Pickle fuzz / Maxon ST9 or TS9 Tube Screamer boost (grit + tightness), High-gain amp: EVH 5150 / 5150 III / Bogner Überschall 'hell tone' (Neural DSP Quad Cortex live), ISP Decimator II noise gate (dead-tight breakdown stops), Boss DD-3 delay / CE-5 chorus for texture.
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 High-output / active 7-string humbuckers (DiMarzio Fusion Edge) for crushing, defined drop-A chug, the amp EQ above (gain 8, bass 5.5, mid 6, treble 6, presence 6, reverb 0), and Way Huge Swollen Pickle fuzz / Maxon ST9 or TS9 Tube Screamer boost (grit + tightness), High-gain amp: EVH 5150 / 5150 III / Bogner Überschall 'hell tone' (Neural DSP Quad Cortex live), ISP Decimator II noise gate (dead-tight breakdown stops), Boss DD-3 delay / CE-5 chorus for texture. Then let GuitarToneAdapt compensate for the guitar, amp and pedals you actually own so it sits like the record.
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