Mardy Bum amp settings — 3rd avenue GA10

The Arctic Monkeys guitar tone for “Mardy Bum”, dialed in for a 3rd avenue GA10 with a 3rd avenue Modern. Studio version, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006)

The 3rd Avenue GA10 is a small solid-state practice amp with bass/treble only, no mid control or presence. The AC30 is a Class A chime machine with prominent upper-mids and touch-sensitivity. To compensate: gain dropped to 3 (the GA10's solid-state preamp won't bloom like the AC30's tubes, so pushed gain sounds harsh), bass dropped to 4 (the AC30's natural scooped low-end isn't present here), treble at 6 to retain string clarity without ice-pick. The result is intimate and dry, but the GA10's gain structure won't capture the valve compression or sparkle of the original — it will sound flatter and more direct.

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