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All Hope Is Gone coverPsychosocial · Slipknot

Psychosocial

Tone for HOTONE Pulze Mini · by @faldy · Humbuckers · Drop A · updated 11 October 2026 · Made with AI

Crushing, tight modern high-gain rhythm tone based on Jim Root's Orange Rockerverb 100 rig from All Hope Is Gone.

Plays it on your Pulze Mini without changing your saved presets.

On the Pulze Mini

Every block in the order the signal goes through it. Dial these in by hand, or play it on your Pulze Mini above to send them all at once.

DYN

Gate 2

Threshold
42
Attack
15
Release
45
PRE

TS Drv

Based on Ibanez® TS-808®

Gain
10
Tone
65
Volume
75
AMP

Tang R100

Based on Orange® Rockerverb 100™ amp

Gain
72
Master
50
Bass
48
Middle
56
Treble
62
CAB

Tang 4x12

Based on Orange® PPC412 cabinet

Volume
50
Low Cut
90
High Cut
7000
EQ

Guitar EQ 1

Off
FX1

Digi Dly

Off
FX2

Room

Mix
16
Pre Dly
0 ms
Decay
35
Low Damp
50
Hi Damp
50
Mod
50

How it works

  • AMPThe Tang R100 delivers the thick, saturated Orange Rockerverb distortion heard across the album.
  • PREA TS Drv pedal running low gain and high output tightens up the massive low-end of Drop A tuning before hitting the preamp.
  • DYNSince your guitar has passive medium-output humbuckers instead of Jim and Mick's active EMGs, the amp gain is bumped to 72 and boosted out front to match their heavy compression and punch.
  • DYNGate 2 clamps down quickly between palm mutes to deliver Slipknot's razor-sharp syncopated stops.

Tuning

AEADF#B

The record is in Drop A, low to high: A E A D F# B.

Tune your guitar the same way. Or make your version above, say how yours is tuned, and your Pulze Mini shifts it to match.

On the guitar

Made for a humbucker guitar (Les Paul / SG style).

NeckBridge123
  1. 1Pickup Bridge
  2. 2Volume 10
  3. 3Tone 10

Keep all knobs on 10 and select the bridge pickup for immediate punch and cutting high-end attack.

The original rig

The crushing rhythm tone on Psychosocial is driven by Drop A-tuned guitars with active pickups feeding high-gain tube amplifiers, kept tight and dry without ambient effects and layered via multi-tracking. Jim Root blended an Orange Rockerverb 100 with a Diezel Herbert, while Mick Thomson pushed his signature high-gain Rivera KR-7 head into matching Rivera 4x12 cabs.

Jim Root (Rhythm and solo): Fender Jim Root Signature Telecaster Prototype, Maxon TS808 Overdrive, Little Labs PCP Instrument Distro, Orange Rockerverb 100, Diezel Herbert, Rivera K412-MT / KR7 4x12 Cabinet, Stereo Double-Tracking

Mick Thomson (Rhythm and solo): Ibanez MTM1 Signature, Rivera KR-7, Rivera K412-MT / KR7 4x12 Cabinet, Stereo Double-Tracking

See the full original rig, with every setting and its sources

Playing it

  • Anchor your picking hand firmly near the bridge saddles to get tight, percussive palm muting on the lowest strings.
  • Pick aggressively downward on the main syncopated staccato riffs to let the noise gate cleanly cut off the silence between hits.
  • Keep your fretting hand relaxed when sliding between chords in Drop A to avoid accidentally sounding open strings.

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Shared by @faldy under CC BY 4.0: use it, share it and change it, crediting @faldy. Version 1, updated 11 October 2026.