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I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor amp settings — M-Vave Blackbox

The Arctic Monkeys guitar tone for “I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor”, dialed in for a M-Vave Blackbox with a Squier Bullet Stratocaster. Studio album cut, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006) - Lead riff / Main rhythm

Original rig

Fender Standard Stratocaster (bridge pickup) -> ProCo Rat 2 / TS808 -> Orange AD30TC / Hiwatt Custom 50

Raw, aggressive British garage-rock crunch with sharp treble bite and mid cut

Amp settings — M-Vave Blackbox

CHANNELUK30 / Vox AC30 Clean or Orange AD30 Clean Model Block (M-Vave Blackbox)BRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	4
Mid	7
Treble	7
Reverb	1
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive

Used into the front of the M-Vave clean amp model as primary dirt stage

Level 7 · Tone 6 · Drive 7

Why these settings

Alex Turner used a Stratocaster into a ProCo Rat pushing clean British tube amps to create the biting, raw distortion on this track. To prevent muddy double-gain, keep the M-Vave Blackbox amp block set completely clean on low gain, using your Boss SD-1 with drive at 7 and level pushed to supply the aggressive clipping. The Strat bridge pickup matches Turner's original Arctic White Strat setup perfectly, providing the necessary cut and high-mid rasp.

PRO TIPPick aggressively close to the bridge saddle with a heavy downstroke attack to get the snappy, percussive garage-rock bite heard in the opening riff.

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