My Own Summer (Shove It) amp settings — Freeman G10
The Deftones guitar tone for “My Own Summer (Shove It)”, dialed in for a Freeman G10 with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Studio version, Around the Fur (1997)
ESP Stef B-7 or ESP Horizon 6-string with Seymour Duncan JB humbucker, Marshall JMP-1 preamp into Mesa/Boogie Strategy 400 power amp (or ADA MP-1 into Marshall 9200), Boss FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz for added grit. Tuning: Drop Db.
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 9 |
| Bass | 7 |
| Mid | 3 |
| Treble | 5 |
| Presence | 6 |
| Reverb | 0 |
| Master | 6 |
The Freeman G10 is an unrecognized budget solid-state amp, so knob names may differ on your faceplate. The original used high-output humbuckers into a cranked tube preamp stack—your Strat's single coils are much brighter and lower output, so gain is maxed to compensate, bass is pushed to add thickness, treble is cut to tame the Strat's ice-pick highs, and mids are scooped to approximate the modern metal voicing. Rolling tone knob to 6 warms the bridge pickup. This gets you in the ballpark, but the original's crushing low-end saturation is not fully reachable without a high-gain distortion pedal.
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