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Personal Jesus amp settings — Lux Mighty air

The Depeche Mode guitar tone for “Personal Jesus”, dialed in for a Lux Mighty air with a Fender Mustang. Studio version, Violator (1989)

Original rig

Gretsch hollowbody with Filter'Tron-style pickups into Vox AC30 on edge of breakup, bottleneck slide on verses, produced by Flood

Chiming, bluesy twang with gritty edge-of-breakup crunch, slide-driven verses with rhythmic stomp

Amp settings — Lux Mighty air

CHANNELClean or AC-style voicing if availableBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	4
Bass	4
Mid	6
Treble	6
Reverb	1
Master	6

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Guitar

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Why these settings

The Lux Mighty Air is an unrecognized amp model — controls may differ on your faceplate. Original AC30 has chimey highs and mid-forward grind; the Mustang's single coils are brighter and lower output than Gore's Filter'Trons, so I dropped treble from 7 to 6 and bass from 5 to 4 to avoid ice-pick highs while preserving the attack. Gain set just below breakup — this tone lives on the edge, not fully clean. Presence set to null as this amp likely lacks it.

PRO TIPUse a glass slide on your pinky for the verse riff on the high E string — the original's slippery, vocal-like sustain comes from bottleneck technique, not the amp. Dig in with your pick attack on the chorus stabs to push the amp into natural grit.

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