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We're In This Together Guitar Tone Settings — Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails · 1990s · metal
studio
Original Recording
Guitar
Gibson Les Paul Standard (likely 1990s, possibly with EMG or stock humbuckers)
Pickups
Humbucker (exact model unknown, likely stock or EMG 81/85 based on era and NIN's known gear)
Amp
Marshall JCM900 (likely, based on NIN's 1990s studio/live rigs and genre conventions)
Pickup Position
Bridge pickup
Studio recording, 1998 (The Fragile sessions). No direct evidence for exact guitar/amp, but Les Paul and Marshall high-gain amps are strongly associated with NIN's heavy riff tones in this era. No evidence of live-specific settings or alternate guitars for this section.
Amp Settings
Mids4.5
Bass6
Gain8.5
Reverb1
Treble7
Presence6
Effects Chain
- Distortion pedal (model unknown) · distortion
- Noise gate (model unknown) · noise_gate
Guitar → Distortion pedal → Noise gate → Marshall JCM900 (light digital reverb)
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Tone Character
- tight and percussive
- bright and grinding
- compressed and focused
- aggressive palm muting
- saturated distortion
- clear note separation
- dense layered wall of sound
- minimal ambience
- rhythmic precision
- modern industrial metal