My sacrifice amp settings — Marshall Code 25

The Creed guitar tone for “My sacrifice”, dialed in for a Marshall Code 25 with a Gibson Les Paul Standard 60s. Studio version, Weathered (2001) - heavy chorus/main riff tone

Original rig

PRS Mark Tremonti Signature + Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier (blended with Bogner Uberschall) + Mesa 4x12 cab

Saturated, thick post-grunge wall-of-sound with heavy low-end chunk and scooped upper-mids

Amp settings — Marshall Code 25

CHANNELAmerican High Gain (Dual Rectifier model) + 1960V 4x12 CabBRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	8
Mid	4
Treble	6
Presence	5
Reverb	2
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Joyo JF-01 Vintage Overdrive

BOOST — used as a clean overdrive boost in front of the high-gain amp model to tighten low-end tracking on drop-D riffs.

Drive 0 · Tone 6 · Level 8

Why these settings

The Marshall Code 25 is a digital modeling amp, so we select the onboard 'American High Gain' model to recreate Tremonti's Dual Rectifier core rather than relying on a Marshall Plexi voice. Your Les Paul humbuckers deliver the thick low-mid punch, while the owned Joyo overdrive acts strictly as a front-end clean boost with drive at zero to shave off flub without muddying the amp saturation. Tune down to Drop D (or Open D5: D-A-D-A-D-D as recorded) to capture the authentic physical string rattle. Clean intro: switch to an American Clean preset with chorus enabled, Joyo off.

PRO TIPTremonti recorded the song in open D tuning (D-A-D-A-D-D); dig hard right next to the bridge saddles on the heavy drop chugs to accentuate the percussive pick attack through the high-gain saturation.

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