Zombie amp settings — Fender Frontman 10g
The Cranberries guitar tone for “Zombie”, dialed in for a Fender Frontman 10g with a Epiphone SG Standard. Studio version, No Need to Argue album (1994)
Fender Telecaster → Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi → DOD FX68 Super Stereo Chorus → Marshall 6101 30th Anniversary Combo
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 8 |
| Bass | 4 |
| Mid | 7 |
| Treble | 5 |
| Presence | 0 |
| Reverb | 0 |
| Master | 6 |
01Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi (or any fuzz/distortion)
RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. This pedal is essential for the Zombie tone. A Boss DS-1, ProCo RAT, or any Big Muff clone will get you close. Without it, the Frontman's onboard gain will be thin and fizzy rather than thick and fuzzy.
02Chorus pedal (Boss CE-5, MXR Analog Chorus, or similar)
RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Chorus is always on for this tone. Place after the fuzz. A cheap Donner or Joyo chorus will work.
The Frontman 10G is a solid-state practice amp with no presence control and limited gain character. The original Marshall 6101 is a tube combo with rich mids and spongy compression. Your Epiphone SG's humbuckers are hotter and warmer than the original Telecaster single coils, so I dropped treble from the original 7 to 5 and pulled bass from 6 to 4 to avoid mud. Gain is pushed to 8 to compensate for the Frontman's weaker saturation, but without a fuzz pedal in front, you will not achieve the thick, wooly distortion character of the recording.
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