Polyamorous amp settings — Orange Crush 12

The Breaking Benjamin guitar tone for “Polyamorous”, dialed in for a Orange Crush 12 with a Epiphone Les Paul Special II. Studio cut, Saturate (2002) — main heavy rhythm riff

The Orange Crush 12 is a single-channel analog solid-state practice amp with Gain, Overdrive, Bass, Middle, Treble, and Volume controls (no presence, no reverb). Pushing both the amp's Gain and Overdrive controls on an aggressive Drop-C riff makes the small 6-inch speaker fart out and turn mushy, so your Boss DS-1 handles the heavy lifting as the primary gain source while the amp stays relatively clean (Gain at 3, Overdrive kept low/off). Treble is bumped to 7 and mids kept flat at 5 to counteract the naturally dark, warm voicing of the Crush circuit and replicate the razor-sharp Mesa Rectifier bite on the record. Drop your guitar to Drop C (C-G-C-F-A-D) to match the low-end tension and register properly.

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