Bags amp settings — Blackstar ID:Core 20 V3

The Clairo guitar tone for “Bags”, dialed in for a Blackstar ID:Core 20 V3 with a Ibanez GIO GRG170DX. Studio version, Immunity (2019) — recorded at Truth Studios on Telecaster through Fender Twin, later produced with Rostam Batmanglij

Original rig

Fender Telecaster into Fender Twin Reverb with SM57, Danielle Haim on drums, Rostam co-production with synth layers and choppy guitar textures

Warm, slightly overdriven chug with jangly mids, lo-fi indie rock texture with rhythmic chop — not high-gain, more gritty clean-to-edge-of-breakup

Amp settings — Blackstar ID:Core 20 V3

CHANNELCrunch (ISF at 9 o'clock — American/Fender-leaning)BOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPneck+middle TONE7 VOLUME10

Why these settings

Original was a Telecaster into a clean Fender Twin pushed to light breakup. Your ID:Core's Crunch voice with ISF set American-side (9 o'clock) approximates that Fender-ish clean-edge grind. Gain at 4 gives the slight grit without full distortion — the Bags guitar loop is rhythmic chug, not saturated. Your GRG170DX humbuckers are hotter than Tele single coils, so gain stays conservative and tone knob rolled to 7 to soften the brightness gap.

PRO TIPThe iconic Bags guitar is a tight, choppy palm-muted rhythm pattern — keep your picking hand close to the bridge and mute aggressively between strums to get that percussive, almost synth-like chop that defines the track.

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