505 amp settings — YAMAHA GA-15

The Arctic monkeys guitar tone for “505”, dialed in for a YAMAHA GA-15 with a Fender American Professional II Stratocaster. Studio version, Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007) - iconic clean/edge-of-breakup intro and verse rhythm

Original rig

Fender Stratocaster into Selmer Zodiac Twin 30 / Vox AC30 with amplifier spring reverb and Ibanez TS808 / Boss DSD-3

Moody, warm British vintage clean with gentle top-end roll-off and atmospheric spring reverb

Amp settings — YAMAHA GA-15

CHANNELClean

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Bass	6
Mid	5
Treble	4
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE7 VOLUME9

Why these settings

The Yamaha GA-15 has a 3-band EQ (Gain/Drive switch is bypassed on Clean) with no onboard presence or reverb. To replicate the dark Selmer/Vox tone on a small solid-state speaker, treble is pulled back to 4 while bass is bumped to 6. Rolling the Strat tone knob to 7 removes bridge/single-coil spikiness to nail the haunting chord texture.

PRO TIPAlex Turner plays the Dm to Em chord progression with soft downward thumb and finger brushes rather than a heavy pick stroke to keep the attack mellow.

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