Bored amp settings — NUX Mighty Lite BT MkII

The Deaftones guitar tone for “Bored”, dialed in for a NUX Mighty Lite BT MkII with a Epiphone Les Paul Standard 60s. Studio version, Adrenaline (1995) — signature heavy main riff/chorus

Stephen Carpenter cut Adrenaline using cranked Marshall JCM800/JMP-1 heads with forward mids rather than the scooped nu-metal curve of later years. On the NUX Mighty Lite BT MkII, select the British high-gain/OD amp block and keep mids elevated at 7 to prevent the small 3-inch speaker from sounding thin, while rolling bass back to 5 to avoid speaker farting. Your Epiphone ProBucker bridge pickup has plenty of output to saturate the digital preamp block, so gain at 7 provides plenty of raw bite without turning to digital mush. Verse dynamic: roll your Les Paul volume knob down to around 5-6 to clean up the intro riff without changing channels.

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