DSP Rig
Tosin Abasi Tone — Plugins & Amp Sims
Custom 8-string Abasi Concepts guitar through a Mesa Boogie — Abasi's Animals as Leaders playing combines aggressive djent-style riffing with percussive thumb tapping and intricate polyrhythmic arrangements.
Tosin Abasi's signature high-gain tone — built around Axe-Fx voicings — can be replicated in the box using modern amp sim plugins and IR cab loaders. This page maps the full DSP signal chain: guitar sim → amp sim → FX → IR, so you can dial in that complex, thumpy character without physical gear.
Full DSP Chain
Est. £1,527Ibanez Prestige RG5121
£1,299
Archetype: Petrucci
≈ Axe-Fx III
£199
Helix: Hard Gate
Helix: Transistor Tape Delay
Helix: Cosmos Chorus
York Audio V30 Mix Pack (IR)
≈ Celestion Vintage 30 4×12
£29
Hybrid Option
Est. £1,527Real guitar into a DSP amp chain — best of both worlds.
Ibanez Prestige RG5121
£1,299
Archetype: Petrucci
≈ Axe-Fx III
£199
Helix: Hard Gate
Helix: Transistor Tape Delay
Helix: Cosmos Chorus
York Audio V30 Mix Pack (IR)
≈ Celestion Vintage 30 4×12
£29
Tone DNA
Gain Structure
high-gain
Amp References
Axe-Fx
Key FX
Noise Gate, Delay, Chorus
Tonal Character
complex, thumpy, clean-to-high-gain, technical