Forever Young amp settings — Orange Crush 20
The Alphaville guitar tone for “Forever Young”, dialed in for a Orange Crush 20 with a Squier Affinity Telecaster. Studio version, Forever Young (1984)
No electric guitar on studio cut (PPG Wave 2.3, Roland Jupiter-8, Lexicon 224, Roland SDE-2000 delay); matched for electric guitar arrangement of synth chord melody
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 2 |
| Bass | 4 |
| Mid | 6 |
| Treble | 7 |
| Master | 5 |
01Boss DD-7 Digital Delay
Set Mode to 800ms; tap/dial tempo to dotted-eighth repeats (~400ms at ~74 BPM) to emulate the Lexicon/Roland studio wash (run direct into amp input)
The studio recording contains no physical guitar, relying entirely on PPG Wave 2.3 and Roland Jupiter-8 synthesizers tracked with Lexicon 224 and Roland SDE-2000 studio delays. To adapt these keyboard pads to an Orange Crush 20, the amp stays on the Clean channel with low gain to maximize headroom. Orange solid-state circuits run darker in the low-mids, so the bass is dialed back to 4 and treble pushed to 7 to capture that pristine, glass-like '80s top end on your Telecaster; the TS9 is bypassed. (The Crush 20 panel has no presence or built-in reverb knob, so both are null).
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