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Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) amp settings — Maxtone Dhc-15

The Deftones guitar tone for “Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)”, dialed in for a Maxtone Dhc-15 with a ESP LTD EC-1000. Studio version, Around the Fur (1997) — main wall-of-sound heavy chorus riff

Original rig

ESP H-series (Seymour Duncan JB) -> ADA MP-1 / Marshall JMP-1 preamp -> Marshall 9200 power amp -> Marshall 1960B 4x12 (Rocktron Intellifex chorus for intro/verses)

Thick, articulate, mid-forward drop-tuned wall of high gain

Amp settings — Maxtone Dhc-15

CHANNELOverdrive/Drive Channel

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Boss CH-1 Super Chorus

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned (essential for the ethereal intro/verse clean textures)

Effect Level 5 · EQ 5 · Rate 4 · Depth 6

02Electro-Harmonix Big Muff or ProCo Rat

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned (bridges the gap between the small solid-state practice amp and the massive rack-driven wall of sound)

Distortion/Sustain 7 · Filter/Tone 5 · Volume 6

Why these settings

The Maxtone Dhc-15 is a basic solid-state practice amp, so the drive channel is engaged at gain 7 to capture Stef Carpenter's heavy saturation without turning into total mush through an 8-inch speaker. The ESP LTD EC-1000's high-output bridge pickup pushes the front end hard, keeping the mids present at 6 to maintain drop-tuning definition against a boosted low end. Clean intro/verses: roll the guitar volume down to 3-4 on the neck pickup, or switch to the clean channel.

PRO TIPTune to Drop Db (or Stef's signature Drop C# / Drop D# octave tuning variations) and strike all six strings aggressively across full barre chords—the signature wall-of-sound relies on ringing open low notes paired with high octave voicings.

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