Hysteria amp settings — Zoom G2X Four

The Def Leppard guitar tone for “Hysteria”, dialed in for a Zoom G2X Four with a Gretsch G5220 Electromatic. Studio version, Hysteria (1987) — iconic clean chorus intro & verse arpeggio tone

Original rig

Fender Stratocaster / Gibson Les Paul into Tom Scholz Rockman X100 (Clean 2 setting) with Boss CE-2 chorus and TC 2290 digital delay

Compressed, shimmering '80s studio-clean with lush analog chorus and dotted-eighth style delay

Amp settings — Zoom G2X Four

CHANNELFD TWNR (Fender Twin Reverb model) + 2x12 IRBRIGHTonBOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge+middle TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01RackComp (Zoom Compressor Block)

Placed first in chain to mimic the built-in Rockman compression/limiting

Threshold 6 · Ratio 5 · Level 7

02Chorus (Boss CE-2 Style Block)

Essential for the wide, shimmering 80s chorus texture

Depth 6 · Rate 4 · Tone 6

03AnalogDly (Delay Block)

Set tempo to ~118 BPM for dotted-eighth / 380ms repeats

Time 4 · Feedback 3 · Mix 4

Why these settings

The original clean track relied heavily on the hyper-compressed, mid-focused Rockman X100 headphone amp. On your Zoom G2X Four, using the clean FD TWNR amp block paired with an upfront compressor and analog chorus recreates that processed studio sheen. The middle pickup position on your Gretsch Broad'Tron humbuckers cleans up the attack and captures the percussive chime of the original arpeggio.

PRO TIPPick right over the bridge saddles with a stiff pick to emphasize string separation, and let every note in the arpeggiated chords ring cleanly into the chorus and delay trails.

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