Lotion amp settings — Orange Crush 35RT

The Deftones guitar tone for “Lotion”, dialed in for a Orange Crush 35RT with a Jackson JS22 Dinky. Studio version, Around the Fur (1997)

Original rig

Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier, ESP Stephen Carpenter 7-string with EMG pickups, drop G# tuning, minimal pedals (tuner, noise gate)

Thick scooped modern metal chug with tight low-end and aggressive pick attack

Amp settings — Orange Crush 35RT

CHANNELDirty

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	8
Bass	6
Mid	3
Treble	7
Reverb	0
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Boss MT-2 Metal Zone or similar high-gain distortion

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. The Crush 35RT's dirty channel is voiced for classic rock/blues gain, not modern metal saturation. A high-gain pedal into the CLEAN channel gets you closer to Rectifier territory.

Level 7 · High 6 · Low 5 · Mid 3 · Mid Freq 5 · Dist 7

Why these settings

The Orange Crush 35RT is voiced warm and British with prominent low-mids, while Carpenter's Rectifier is American-scooped with tighter lows. I dropped mid to 3 to approximate the Rectifier scoop and raised treble to 7 for attack clarity. The Crush's dirty channel maxes out at hard-rock gain, not nu-metal saturation—a dedicated high-gain pedal into the clean channel is the honest path to this tone.

PRO TIPCarpenter's attack comes from picking hard directly over the bridge pickup with the heel of his palm lightly muting—practice that percussive 'chunk' on the low strings to nail the rhythmic aggression, which matters more than any knob setting.

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