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Deftones
Tone profile
What makes this tone
Signal chain
Tone Character
Recorded tone character
Gain character
Heavy but smoother than My Own Summer, with dense saturation and long, blended sustain.
Bass
Full and weighty.
Mids
Strong and wide.
Treble
Controlled to keep the wash from becoming harsh.
Brightness / presence
Moderate/dark.
Compression
Dense rack/high-gain compression.
Effects
ADA MP-1/Marshall 9200 core with Rocktron Intellifex providing the era's delay/reverb texture; exact switching is not documented per song.
Evidence / Sources
Tone character: wide, dark, lush, compressed, mid-rich, atmospheric, heavy, slightly ambient
The Around the Fur interview directly establishes Carpenter's core rig. This song is represented as the heavy atmospheric electric tone rather than claiming a separate undocumented amp for every layer.
ADA MP-1/Marshall 9200 core with Rocktron Intellifex providing the era's delay/reverb texture; exact switching is not documented per song.
Guitar
ESP signature/Horizon-style six-string used by Stephen Carpenter in the Around the Fur era
Amp
ADA MP-1 preamp into Marshall 9200 power amp
Channel
High-gain ADA MP-1 rhythm reference, with rack ambience used for the wider texture
Pickup
Seymour Duncan JB bridge humbucker