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Be quiet and drive amp settings — Marshall DSL40CR

The Deftones guitar tone for “Be quiet and drive”, dialed in for a Marshall DSL40CR with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Studio version, Around the Fur (1997) — clean verse tone (the iconic opening)

Original rig

ADA MP-1 preamp (clean channel) → Marshall 9200 power amp, ESP Custom with Seymour Duncan JB humbucker, chorus pedal (Rocktron Intellifex or Boss CE-2)

Shimmery, mid-forward clean with subtle chorus — atmospheric and haunting, not sterile

Amp settings — Marshall DSL40CR

CHANNELClean (green crunch off)BRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	5
Mid	6
Treble	5
Presence	5
Reverb	3
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE7 VOLUME10

Why these settings

Original used ADA MP-1 clean channel into Marshall power section — the DSL40CR clean channel with gain near zero replicates that studio-grade headroom. Your Strat's single coils are brighter and lower output than Carpenter's JB humbucker, so mid +1 and treble -1 vs a humbucker baseline to warm it up. Rolling tone to 7 tames the Strat's ice-pick highs. The song needs chorus for authenticity — you don't own one, so reverb at 3 adds spatial depth as a partial substitute.

PRO TIPCarpenter played this in Db tuning (Eb standard, drop Db) — if you stay in standard, the riff lands differently; consider tuning down or capoing to taste. For the full effect, a used Boss CE-5 or TC Electronic Corona (~$40) would nail the original shimmer the Big Muff and RAT cannot provide.

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