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Tears Don't Fall, Pt. 2 amp settings — Fender SR-15CE

The Bullet for My Valentine guitar tone for “Tears Don't Fall, Pt. 2”, dialed in for a Fender SR-15CE with a Fender American Ultra Stratocaster. Studio version, Temper Temper (2013) — main rhythm riff

Original rig

Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier, Gibson Les Paul with EMG 81/85 pickups, Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer boost

Tight modern metal crunch with scooped mids, aggressive palm-muted chugs, and harmonic lead saturation

Amp settings — Fender SR-15CE

CHANNELOverdrive (Drive switch ON)

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	6
Treble	7
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Tube Screamer (TS9)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned; tightens low-end flub on modern metal tones

Drive 1 · Tone 7 · Level 9

Why these settings

The Fender SR-15CE is an acoustic/electric practice amp with an onboard drive switch and 2-band EQ (no mid, presence, or reverb controls), so high-gain metal requires pushing its internal drive to 7 while keeping bass at 6 to prevent small-speaker farting. Your Strat's single-coil bridge pickup lacks the compression and output of Matt Tuck's active EMG 81s, so roll tone down to 8 to tame high-end harshness. Adding an external high-gain distortion or overdrive pedal will drastically tighten the palm-mute tracking.

PRO TIPAnchor the fleshy base of your picking hand directly over the bridge saddles and dig in aggressively on downstrokes to force tight, percussive chugs out of low-output single-coil pickups.

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