Everlong amp settings — Line 6 Spider II 15

The Foo Fighter guitar tone for “Everlong”, dialed in for a Line 6 Spider II 15 with a Fender American Professional II Stratocaster. Studio version, The Colour and the Shape (1997) — main rhythm/chorus tone

Original rig

Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier + Vox AC30 blend, Gibson Les Paul / ES-335 (humbuckers), Pro Co RAT

Punchy, saturated post-grunge rhythm distortion with tight low-end and articulate bite

Amp settings — Line 6 Spider II 15

CHANNELMetal

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	6
Bass	6
Mid	6
Treble	5
Reverb	2
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Why these settings

The Line 6 Spider II 15 Metal channel delivers the aggressive Mesa Dual Rectifier chunk used across the track, while setting Gain to 6 keeps the fast, driving octaves articulate. To compensate for the brighter, lower-output Stratocaster single-coil versus Grohl's humbuckers, Treble is dialed back to 5 and the guitar's tone knob rolled to 8 to tame ice-pick high frequencies. Clean intro: switch the amp model knob to Clean with the volume rolled back to 7 on the neck+middle position.

PRO TIPEverlong is played in Drop D tuning (D-A-D-G-B-E); use aggressive, uniform downstrokes with a heavy pick (0.88mm+) locked against your palm edge to achieve Dave Grohl's percussive, drum-like rhythm attack.

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