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Everlong amp settings — Fender Rumble 40

The Foo fighters guitar tone for “Everlong”, dialed in for a Fender Rumble 40 with a Yamaha Pacifica 112V. Studio version, The Colour and the Shape (1997) — main high-gain rhythm wall

Original rig

Gibson ES-335 into Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier (Red Channel) blended with Fender Tone Master, 4x12 cab with Celestion V30s

Thick, high-gain post-grunge wall-of-sound with aggressive upper-mid punch
Amp settings — Fender Rumble 40
CHANNELOverdrive switch ON (Bright: off, Contour: off, Vintage: off)BRIGHToff
GAIN 8 BASS 4 MID 6 TREBLE 7 MASTER 5
KnobSetting (0–10)
Gain8
Bass4
Mid6
Treble7
Master5
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Guitar
PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10
Signal chain

01ProCo Rat 2 (or high-gain distortion)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned; necessary to get true Dual Rectifier saturation into a bass amp

Distortion 7 · Filter 5 · Volume 6
Why these settings

The Fender Rumble 40 is a bass amp with a 4-band EQ (Low-Mid and High-Mid) and no presence/reverb controls; set Low-Mid to 5 and High-Mid to 7 to compensate for the missing guitar speaker top-end. Engage the onboard Overdrive circuit with gain pushed to 8 so you can play the heavy riff today, but keep bass rolled back to 4 to prevent the 10-inch bass cone from muddying up. Adding an external high-gain distortion pedal like a Rat into the clean input will bridge the gap to Dave Grohl's Dual Rectifier crunch. Clean drop-D intro: disengage the Overdrive switch and roll guitar volume to 7.

PRO TIPDrop your low E string to D and hit the open octave power chords with heavy, consistent downstrokes right near the bridge for maximum percussive attack.

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