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Change (In the House of Flies) amp settings — Fender Rumble 500

The Deftones guitar tone for “Change (In the House of Flies)”, dialed in for a Fender Rumble 500 with a les paul junior Epiphone. Studio version, White Pony (2000) — iconic heavy chorus riff

Original rig

Marshall JMP-1 MIDI Preamp (OD2 channel) into Marshall 9200 Power Amp, ESP Stef custom 7-string (Drop C tuning: C-G-C-F-A-D)

Massive, wall-of-sound down-tuned alt-metal distortion with thick low-mids and heavy saturation

Amp settings — Fender Rumble 500

CHANNELClean (Overdrive/Drive off)BRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	4
Mid	6
Treble	6
Master	4

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Boss MT-2 Metal Zone

Primary gain source; run into front input

Level 6 · High 6 · Low 5 · Middle 7 · Mid Freq 4 · Dist 8

02Boss DD-8 Digital Delay

Set Mode to Warm or Standard; engage for the atmospheric intro/verse chord swells, bypass for the heavy chorus

E.Level 4 · Feedback 5 · Time 5 · Mode 1

Why these settings

Because the Fender Rumble 500 is a bass amp with massive clean headroom and a 4-band EQ (set Low-Mid to 6 and High-Mid to 5), the amp gain is kept low at 2 with overdrive disabled so the MT-2 acts as the entire gain source. The MT-2's parametric Mid Freq is parked around 800Hz with a slight boost to replicate the Marshall JMP-1's aggressive midrange rather than a scooped metal tone. Verse delay switch: engage the DD-8 with light repeats and pick near the neck for the ambient intro before slamming the chorus riff dry.

PRO TIPTune the guitar to Drop C (C-G-C-F-A-D) and strike the open low-C power chords with heavy downpicking right near the bridge to tighten up the P-90 pickup's low-end attack.

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