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Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) amp settings — Boss Katana 100 MkII

The Deftones guitar tone for “Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)”, dialed in for a Boss Katana 100 MkII with a Gould Steelport. Studio version, Around the Fur (1997) — main heavy chorus/riff tone

Original rig

ESP H-series (Seymour Duncan JB) -> ADA MP-1 MIDI Preamp -> Marshall 9200 Dual Monobloc Tube Power Amp -> Marshall 1960B 4x12 (Rocktron Intellifex / Boss CE-2 for modulations)

Thick, wall-of-sound alt-metal distortion with pronounced low-mid girth and cutting high-end bite in drop Db

Amp settings — Boss Katana 100 MkII

CHANNELBrown Amp TypeBOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Boss DS-1 Distortion

BOOST — runs into front input to tighten the low-end attack and add high-mid bite to the Brown channel

Tone 4 · Level 8 · Dist 2

Why these settings

The Katana's Brown voice recreates the cascaded tube preamp saturation of Stephen Carpenter's ADA MP-1 and Marshall power section. Running the owned DS-1 as a tight boost (Dist low, Level high) shapes the front-end attack without adding unwanted fizz. Mids are kept at 6 to maintain the dense chord clarity essential for Deftones' drop Db wall of sound. Clean verse: bypass the DS-1 and switch the Katana to Clean with onboard chorus enabled.

PRO TIPStephen Carpenter uses heavy pick attack with all downstrokes across open octave/unison chord shapes in Drop Db (Db-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb); let the open strings ring fully against fretted notes for that signature chorused, phasey wall-of-sound resonance.

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