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I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor amp settings — Peavey 5150

The Arctic Monkeys guitar tone for “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor”, dialed in for a Peavey 5150 with a Gibson Les Paul Standard 50s. Studio version, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006), produced by Jim Abbiss

Original rig

Fender American Vintage '52 Telecaster (bridge pickup) → Fulltone OCD V2 → Vox AC30 C2 (Top Boost channel)

Biting, urgent indie crunch with upper-mid attack and minimal reverb — punchy rhythm stabs and nervous single-note runs

Amp settings — Peavey 5150

CHANNELRhythm (Green) — cleanest availableBRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	4
Bass	4
Mid	7
Treble	6
Presence	5
Reverb	0
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Fulltone OCD V2

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. A Boss SD-1 or EHX Soul Food gets you 80% there as budget alternatives. This pedal is essential to the tone — the AC30 crunch comes from the OCD, not the amp's preamp.

Volume 6 · Drive 5 · Tone 6 · HP/LP Switch HP (high-peak)

Why these settings

Your 5150 is a high-gain monster where the AC30 is a chimey Class A — use the Rhythm channel to stay clean and let a pedal provide the grit. The Les Paul's humbuckers are darker and hotter than Turner's Tele single coil, so I dropped bass -1 and pushed mids +1 to recover that wiry attack. Roll your tone knob to 7 to tame the humbucker warmth and fake some Tele spank.

PRO TIPThe urgency of this tone is 90% picking hand — use stiff picks (1mm+), anchor near the bridge, and dig in with aggressive alternate picking on the single-note runs. The frantic energy comes from attack dynamics, not gain.

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