my own summer amp settings — Fender 023-1500-000

The deftones guitar tone for “my own summer”, dialed in for a Fender 023-1500-000 with a First Act ME538. Studio version, Around the Fur (1997)

Original rig

ESP Horizon/M-II with Seymour Duncan JB, ADA MP-1 preamp into Marshall 9200 power amp, Boss FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz

Dark, percussive detuned chug with gritty upper-octave fuzz bite, dry and articulate

Amp settings — Fender 023-1500-000

CHANNELOverdrive channel

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	8
Bass	7
Mid	4
Treble	5
Reverb	0
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE6 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Boss FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz (or any modern fuzz/distortion)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. The FZ-2 is discontinued; a Boss HM-2 clone, EHX Big Muff Op-Amp, or Pro Co Rat would approximate the gritty, scooped aggression. Without a fuzz/distortion pedal, you will not achieve this tone — the Frontman's overdrive alone lacks the saturation and harmonic grind Carpenter's rig delivers.

Gain/Fuzz 7 · Tone 4 · Level 6

Why these settings

The Fender Frontman 10G is a small solid-state practice amp with a single overdrive channel, bass, treble (no mid knob), and no presence control. Carpenter's ADA/Marshall rig is mid-scooped and high-gain with power amp saturation — the Frontman cannot replicate this without an external distortion pedal. I maxed the amp's gain and boosted bass to compensate for your guitar's single-coil-style pickups (lower output than Carpenter's JB humbuckers), and rolled treble back to avoid the Frontman's tendency toward fizz at high gain. The tone knob at 6 tames the First Act's brightness.

PRO TIPTune to Drop C# (C#-G#-C#-F#-A#-D#) and use a heavy pick with strict palm-muting right at the bridge saddles — Carpenter's percussive attack comes from muting hard and picking aggressively, letting only the low-end chug through with minimal string ring.

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