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Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt Guitar Tone Settings — The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta · 2000s · rock
studio
Original Recording
Guitar
Ibanez RG series (likely RG2550 or similar, early 2000s spec, stock pickups)
Pickups
Ibanez/DiMarzio HSH (stock or DiMarzio/IBZ, ceramic magnet humbuckers and single coil)
Amp
Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier (early 2000s revision, likely Trem-O-Verb head)
Pickup Position
Bridge humbucker
Studio recording, 2002-2003. Omar Rodríguez-López was known to use Ibanez RG guitars and Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier amps for De-Loused in the Comatorium sessions. No direct source for exact serial/model, but this is widely documented for this album era. No evidence of alternate guitars or amps for this riff section.
Amp Settings
Mids6.5
Bass6
Gain7.5
Reverb1.5
Treble7
Presence6.5
Effects Chain
- Distortion pedal (model unknown) · distortion
Ibanez RG → Distortion pedal (model unknown, possibly fuzz or overdrive) → Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier (spring reverb low)
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Tone Character
- molten, saturated distortion
- harmonic richness
- aggressive attack
- tight and percussive
- complex, layered overtones
- liquid-like runs
- satisfyingly scrambled squelch
- dense and hallucinatory
- edgy and experimental
- snarling, rabid riffing