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Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) amp settings — Fender Champion 30

The Deftones guitar tone for “Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)”, dialed in for a Fender Champion 30 with a Maestro Les Paul. Studio version, Around the Fur (1997) — main heavy chorus/riff tone

Original rig

ESP H-series (Seymour Duncan JB bridge humbucker) -> ADA MP-1 Preamp -> Marshall 9200 dual mono-bloc power amp -> Marshall 1960B 4x12 cab

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

Amp settings — Fender Champion 30

CHANNELDrive Channel

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	8
Bass	8
Mid	5
Treble	7
Reverb	1
Master	4

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01ProCo Rat 2 / Boss DS-1

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned; with this pedal, switch amp to Normal channel and drop gain to 2

Distortion 7 · Filter 5 · Volume 6

Why these settings

The Champion 30's solid-state Drive channel provides the needed saturation since you lack an external dirt pedal, but keep mids around 5 to avoid harshness while pushing bass to 8 for low-end punch. Because this small combo has an open back and a 10-inch speaker, treble is kept at 7 to capture the cutting bite of Stephen Carpenter's ADA MP-1 Marshall stack without becoming shrill. Clean verse: roll guitar volume down to 4 on the neck pickup.

PRO TIPTune to Drop C# (Db-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb) and fret the signature full chord voicings across the lower three strings using flat index finger barres with open high strings ringing out to create the massive wall-of-sound drone.

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