Send The Pain Below amp settings — Orange Crush 12
The Chevelle guitar tone for “Send The Pain Below”, dialed in for a Orange Crush 12 with a Ibanez GIO GRG170DX. Main heavy riff/chorus, Wonder What's Next (2002)
Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier (Modern high-gain channel), PRS Custom 22 (Bridge Humbucker), drop-C tuning, straight into amp with tight low end
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 2 |
| Bass | 6 |
| Mid | 4 |
| Treble | 7 |
| Master | 6 |
01Boss DS-1 Distortion
Gain source — provides the modern saturated crunch into the clean amp
02Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9
Tightening boost — cuts flubby sub-bass and adds aggressive upper-mid punch (run before DS-1 or as pre-EQ)
The single-channel Crush 12 cannot recreate a Dual Rectifier's cascading high gain on its own, so the DS-1 acts as the primary gain engine with the amp gain dialed back to 2 to prevent muddy stacking. The TS9 is placed with zero drive and high level to tighten the low end and replicate the Rectifier's characteristic upper-mid attack through a small 6-inch speaker. Treble is pushed to 7 on the naturally dark Orange EQ while mids are pulled to 4 to mimic the modern scooped wall of sound. Clean verse: bypass both the DS-1 and TS9.
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