Everlong amp settings — Fender Twin Reverb

The Foo Fighters guitar tone for “Everlong”, dialed in for a Fender Twin Reverb with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Studio version, The Colour and the Shape (1997) — main drop-D chorus wall-of-sound

The Twin Reverb is a high-headroom clean platform that cannot produce Mesa Rectifier high-gain on its own, so we crank volume and mids while taming treble to push the power section into natural breakup for playability today. To compensate for single-coil Strat pickups versus Grohl's humbucking ES-335, roll your guitar tone back slightly to thicken the low-mids and soften single-coil icepick. Adding a distortion pedal like a ProCo Rat 2 will provide the true aggressive 90s saturation; with the pedal, drop amp volume back down to clean levels. Clean verse: pick lightly over the neck or middle pickup with guitar volume rolled back to 7.

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