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

The Deftones guitar tone for “Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)”, dialed in for a Fender Frontman with a Leo jaymz ST series. Studio version, Around the Fur (1997)

Original rig

ESP H-series (Seymour Duncan JB bridge humbucker) → ADA MP-1 preamp → Marshall 9200 power amp. Chorus pedal (Boss CE-2 or Rocktron Intellifex) on clean intro/interlude sections. Tuning: Drop C# (C# G# C# F# A# D#)

Scooped, tight high-gain wall with clinical articulation; verses are mid-forward crunch via neck pickup and rolled-back volume

Amp settings — Fender Frontman

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	9
Bass	8
Mid	2
Treble	7
Reverb	1
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Why these settings

Fender Frontman is naturally scooped and lacks the ADA MP-1's tight mid-scoop, so mids are pushed to 2 (vs the MP-1's near-zero) to keep definition under this much gain. Bass is raised to 8 (vs original 6-7) because Frontman's bass control is loose and needs more to fill low-end at drop C#. Gain is maxed at 9 because single-coil Strat pickups have lower output than the JB humbuckers—your bridge pickup wide-open gets closest. For the verse tone, switch to neck pickup and roll guitar volume back to 6.

PRO TIPThe verses aren't a clean channel—they're the same saturated amp with neck pickup and volume rolled to 6, which is why they still bloom when you dig in. Roll volume back up to 10 and snap to bridge pickup for the chorus crunch.

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