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Up Around the Bend amp settings — Marshall Mg15cfr

The Creedence Clearwater Revival guitar tone for “Up Around the Bend”, dialed in for a Marshall Mg15cfr with a Samick Greg Bennett Torino TR-1. Studio version, Cosmo's Factory (1970), Wally Heider Studios San Francisco

Original rig

Rickenbacker 325 with Gibson humbucker conversion → Kustom K200 solid-state combo, no pedals, clean with presence

Bright, ringing, clean with cutting treble and midrange clarity — no breakup, all attack and chime

Amp settings — Marshall Mg15cfr

CHANNELCleanBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	3
Bass	4
Mid	7
Treble	7
Reverb	2
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE9 VOLUME10

Why these settings

The MG15CFR lacks a presence knob so that control is unavailable. The Kustom K200 was a bright, clean solid-state amp; the MG Clean channel is darker and more compressed, so I pushed mid and treble +0.5 each vs the original to recover the cutting high-register clarity. Gain stays low — Fogerty's tone has zero breakup. Your Samick's humbucker is hotter than the converted Rickenbacker, so backing gain to 3 prevents unwanted grit.

PRO TIPPlay the riff with a stiff pick angled slightly toward the bridge and dig in hard on the attack — the tone's bite comes from pick dynamics, not amp drive. Roll tone knob to 9 to tame any ice-pick harshness on the high E string.

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