Cry amp settings — Marshall Mini Jubilee
The Cigarettes After Sex guitar tone for “Cry”, dialed in for a Marshall Mini Jubilee with a Squier Affinity Stratocaster. Studio version, Cry album (2019) — recorded Mallorca, Spain
Greg Gonzalez uses a Fender Jazzmaster or Jaguar with heavy reverb and delay, likely through a clean Fender-style amp (Twin Reverb or similar). The tone is defined by shimmering clean guitar drenched in ambient reverb and delay, not amp distortion.
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 2 |
| Bass | 5 |
| Mid | 4 |
| Treble | 6 |
| Presence | 4 |
| Reverb | 8 |
| Master | 4 |
The Mini Jubilee is voiced for British crunch, but Cigarettes After Sex runs bone-clean with the guitar doing nothing but providing shimmer for the reverb/delay wash. Gain at 2 keeps it glassy. Treble 6 adds the Strat's natural sparkle without ice-pick. The Jubilee's onboard reverb maxed at 8 gets you partway there, but the original uses studio reverb far beyond any amp spring — this is the closest honest match without pedals. Rolling the Strat's tone to 6 on the neck pickup softens the single-coil bite to approximate a Jazzmaster's warmer voicing.
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