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Silent Night, Bodom Night amp settings — Fender Mustang LT25

The Children of Bodom guitar tone for “Silent Night, Bodom Night”, dialed in for a Fender Mustang LT25 with a PRS SE Custom 24. Studio version, Hatebreeder (1999)

Original rig

ESP Alexi signature (EMG HZ pickups) → Marshall JCM800/900 with possible external preamp boost, heavy compression, scooped EQ typical of Scandinavian melodic death metal production

Tight high-gain with scooped mids, razor treble for neoclassical leads, aggressive palm-muted low-end chunk

Amp settings — Fender Mustang LT25

CHANNELMetal 2000 preset (or create custom using the METAL 2000 amp model)

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	8
Bass	6
Treble	7
Reverb	0
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Why these settings

The LT25 has only Bass/Treble EQ (no mid or presence knobs). The METAL 2000 amp model is the closest voicing to the scooped, tight high-gain Marshall-derived tone Laiho used. Your PRS SE Custom 24 humbuckers are warmer and lower-output than EMG actives, so gain stays at 8 rather than backing off, and treble at 7 compensates for the pickup's softer attack. Reverb at 0 because the original is bone-dry with tight studio compression.

PRO TIPFor the signature Alexi attack on fast alternate-picked runs, anchor your picking hand firmly on the bridge and use very small pick strokes close to the bridge pickup—this tightens the low end and adds the ice-pick treble bite that defines the Bodom lead tone.

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