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Apocalypse amp settings — Fender Twin Reverb

The Cigarettes after sex guitar tone for “Apocalypse”, dialed in for a Fender Twin Reverb with a Ibanez Artcore AS73. Studio version, recorded December 2015 in Brooklyn, NY

Original rig

Fender American Professional II Stratocaster (neck pickup) → Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man → Fender '65 Twin Reverb Reissue

Whisper-quiet ambient clean with lush analog delay wash

Amp settings — Fender Twin Reverb

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Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	6
Mid	5
Treble	5
Presence	5
Reverb	3
Master	4

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE7 VOLUME4

Signal chain

01Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man

RECOMMENDED — not owned. ~600ms delay time, one repeat. Essential to the tone's ambient character.

Delay 6 · Feedback 2 · Blend 5

Why these settings

Your AS73 humbuckers are warmer and fatter than the Strat singles used on the original. Bass pushed +1 to compensate for the humbucker's natural low-mid thickness, treble dropped -1 because humbuckers lack the Strat's glassy high end. Volume knob at 4 (matching the original's whisper dynamics) keeps the neck pickup dark and round. The Twin Reverb is identical voicing to the original amp, so EQ translation is minimal.

PRO TIPArpeggiate with bare thumb and index finger only — no pick. Let every note ring across chord changes (open strings sustaining into the next chord). The G-Em-C-D progression lives in this overlap, and the delay smears it into one continuous shimmer.

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