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My Own Summer (Shove It) amp settings — fender Frontman 10G

The Deftones guitar tone for “My Own Summer (Shove It)”, dialed in for a fender Frontman 10G with a Squier Classic Vibe 60s Stratocaster. Studio version, Around the Fur (1997)

Original rig

ESP 7-string (Seymour Duncan JB bridge humbucker) → Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier or ADA MP-1/Marshall JMP-1 preamp → Mesa/Boogie Strategy 400 power amp

Dark, percussive, saturated mid-gain chug with tight low-end and gritty upper-mids

Amp settings — fender Frontman 10G

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	10
Bass	8
Treble	3
Master	4

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Guitar

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Why these settings

The Frontman 10G has no mid or presence controls and runs a scooped Fender voicing into a solid-state gain stage—opposite of the original's mid-forward Mesa Rectifier. Gain is maxed because the amp cannot produce the preamp saturation of a Dual Rectifier without it. Bass is pushed to 8 to recover low-end body lost in the Fender scoop. Treble is cut hard to 3 because single-coil Strat bridge pickups are ice-picky and the amp's treble shelf sits higher than a Mesa's. This gets you into the percussive chug zone, but the Frontman's 6.5-inch speaker and lack of power-amp thump means the original's cabinet roar and string-to-string definition won't translate—expect compressed fuzz instead of articulate distortion.

PRO TIPTune to drop C# (C#-G#-C#-F#-A#-D#) and palm-mute with the heel of your picking hand directly over the bridge pickup to tighten the low-end attack—Carpenter's percussive chug lives in the muting dynamics, not the gear alone.

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