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Change (In the House of Flies) amp settings — Fender Mustang LT25

The Deftones guitar tone for “Change (In the House of Flies)”, dialed in for a Fender Mustang LT25 with a ESP LTD EC-256. Studio version, White Pony (2000) — produced by Terry Date at Larrabee Sound/The Plant

Original rig

ESP Custom Horizon with EMG 81 pickups → Marshall JMP-1 + ADA MP-1 preamps → Marshall 9200 power amp → Marshall 1960B 4x12 cabs. Line 6 POD for digital processing. Drop C tuning.

Haunting, spacious clean verse with shimmering delay/chorus; chorus sections build into warm, defined mid-forward crunch with tight low-end despite the drop tuning

Amp settings — Fender Mustang LT25

CHANNEL70s British (for verse clean) / Metal 2000 (for chorus drive)

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	4
Bass	4
Mid	7
Treble	6
Presence	5
Reverb	3
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Mustang Built-in Delay (Mono Delay)

Essential for verse atmosphere — dotted 8th feel, ~350-400ms

Level 4 · Delay Time 5 · Feedback 4

02Mustang Built-in Chorus (Sine Chorus)

Subtle shimmer for verse sections — disengage for heavy chorus

Level 3 · Rate 3 · Depth 5

Why these settings

Your EC-256 has passive humbuckers vs the original EMG 81 actives — gain pushed +1 to compensate for lower output, but kept restrained at 4 to maintain the tight, defined character Carpenter achieves. Mids boosted to 7 (vs ~5-6 on original Marshall settings) because the Mustang's digital amp models are inherently more scooped than a real JMP-1. Bass rolled to 4 to prevent mud in Drop C — the Mustang's low-end can get boomy fast with downtuned guitars.

PRO TIPThis song lives and dies on dynamics — use your picking hand to control the verse-to-chorus intensity shift rather than stomping effects. Carpenter barely changes his gain settings between sections; it's all right-hand attack and letting the clean tone breathe before digging in hard on the heavy parts.

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