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Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) amp settings — NUX MG-300

The Deftones guitar tone for “Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)”, dialed in for a NUX MG-300 with a Gibson SG Modern. 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 cab (Rocktron Intellifex chorus for clean verses)

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

Amp settings — NUX MG-300

CHANNELBrit 800 (Marshall JCM800 model) + 1960A 4x12 IRBOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01NUX MG-300 Tube Screamer (TS9 Block)

Used as a clean boost to tighten low-end tracking in Drop Db tuning

Drive 0 · Tone 6 · Level 8

02NUX MG-300 Chorus Block

Bypassed for heavy chorus riff; engage for intro and verse sections

Rate 4 · Depth 5

Why these settings

The NUX MG-300's Brit 800 model captures the Marshall JMP-1 preamp bite, while the Gibson SG Modern's bridge humbucker supplies the upper-mid punch of Stef Carpenter's Seymour Duncan JB. Running the onboard TS9 model as a pure front-end boost tightens the flubby low frequencies inherent to the Drop Db tuning without over-saturating the preamp. Clean verses: bypass the TS9 block, switch to clean amp model or roll guitar volume back, and engage the chorus block.

PRO TIPTune down to Drop Db (Db-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb) and fret Stef's signature full 4-string power chords across the bottom strings with aggressive downpicking to achieve the iconic wall-of-sound resonance.

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