Knife Prty amp settings — Fender Deluxe Reverb

The Deftones guitar tone for “Knife Prty”, dialed in for a Fender Deluxe Reverb with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Studio version, White Pony (2000) — main heavy chorus/riff tone

Original rig

Stephen Carpenter: ESP Stef-B7 / 7-string with EMG pickups, Marshall JMP-1 preamp into Mesa/Boogie power amps and cabs, Boss delay/reverb units

Saturated, wall-of-sound drop-tuned alternative metal distortion with scooped lower-mids and heavy low-end thump

Amp settings — Fender Deluxe Reverb

CHANNELVibrato (Input 1)

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Bass	7
Treble	4
Reverb	2
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01High-Gain Distortion (e.g. Boss DS-1 / ProCo Rat / Horizon Precision Drive)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned

Distortion 8 · Filter/Tone 4 · Level 7

02Digital Delay

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned

Time 5 · Feedback 4 · Level 3

Why these settings

The Fender Deluxe Reverb is a pristine clean tube platform that physically cannot reach Stephen Carpenter's cascaded Marshall JMP-1/Mesa high-gain saturation without an external pedal. For playing right now, keep the amp around Volume 6-7 for edge-of-breakup grit, trim Treble to 4 and Tone to 7 to compensate for bright single coils, and boost Bass to 7 to replicate low-tuned weight. With an added high-gain distortion pedal, switch the amp volume down to 3 for clean headroom and let the pedal supply the crushing distortion. Atmospheric intro/verses: roll the guitar volume down to 6 and play lightly with amp reverb up.

PRO TIPDeftones' drop-tuned massive wall of sound relies on hard pick attack right near the bridge saddles; tune your low E string down to Drop D (or lower) and dig in firmly on power chords to replicate the percussive, palm-muted chug.

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