As You Please amp settings — Vox Pathfinder 10

The Citizen guitar tone for “As You Please”, dialed in for a Vox Pathfinder 10 with a Squier Classic Vibe 60s Stratocaster. Studio version, As You Please (2017)

Original rig

Marshall JCM800 → Janice 4x12 (Celestion Vintage 30s), Fender Classic Player Jazzmaster, TS9 Tube Screamer, EHX Nano Big Muff, Boss DD-3, Boss CH-1, EHX Holy Grail

Warm, driven midrange crunch with shoegaze-adjacent fuzz swells and ambient delay/reverb washes

Amp settings — Vox Pathfinder 10

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

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE6 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Tube Screamer (TS9 or clone)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Essential for this tone. The TS9 is the primary gain source pushing the JCM800 on the record. Budget options: Ibanez TS Mini, Joyo Vintage Overdrive, Behringer TO800.

Drive 5 · Tone 4 · Level 7

02Big Muff (Nano or standard)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Used for the wall-of-fuzz sections and sustained lead swells. Budget option: Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi Nano, Donner Dark Mouse.

Volume 5 · Tone 4 · Sustain 6

03Digital Delay (Boss DD-3 style)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Set to 300-400ms for the atmospheric repeats. Budget option: Donner Yellow Fall, Behringer VD400.

E.Level 4 · F.Back 4 · D.Time 5 · Mode 6

04Reverb (EHX Holy Grail style)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Hall setting for the spacious wash. Budget option: TC Electronic Skysurfer, Caline Snake Bite.

Reverb 5 · Mode 0

Why these settings

The Pathfinder 10 is a 10W solid-state practice amp with no breakup headroom—it cannot replicate the JCM800's pushed midrange crunch on its own. Amp gain is set low (2) because ALL overdrive must come from pedals; any higher and stacking will mud out. Treble at 5 compensates for your Strat's brighter single coils vs the Jazzmaster's warmer humbucking output. Without any pedals, you will only get a clean foundation—the TS9 is non-negotiable for this tone.

PRO TIPRoll your Strat's neck pickup tone knob to 6 to approximate the Jazzmaster's darker, rounder wound-string response. For the fuzz sections, engage the Big Muff and dig in with your pick near the neck—the Pathfinder's speaker will compress naturally at higher volumes, adding some thickness.

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