Everlong amp settings — Line 6 Spider Jam

The Foo Fighters guitar tone for “Everlong”, dialed in for a Line 6 Spider Jam with a Ovation Acoustic. Studio version, The Colour and the Shape (1997)

Original rig

Gibson ES-335/Trini Lopez with PAF-style humbuckers → Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier (high gain channel) → Mesa 4x12 with V30s. ProCo Rat available for overdubs, Boss DD-3 delay, MXR Phase 90.

Aggressive mid-forward crunch with tight low-end, compressed attack, and modern high-gain saturation

Amp settings — Line 6 Spider Jam

CHANNELInsane (closest to Rectifier voicing on Spider Jam)

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

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Guitar

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Why these settings

This tone is fundamentally unobtainable on an acoustic guitar. The Ovation's piezo pickup and acoustic body produce a completely different frequency response, attack envelope, and harmonic content than the PAF humbuckers and solid-body resonance the recording requires. The settings above will produce a distorted acoustic sound, not the 'Everlong' tone. To genuinely achieve this tone, you need a solid-body electric guitar with humbuckers.

PRO TIPIf you proceed anyway, tune to Drop D and play near the soundhole for maximum output to drive the amp's input harder—but understand you're creating an experimental distorted-acoustic texture, not replicating Grohl's tone. For the actual song, a used Epiphone Les Paul or similar humbucker-equipped guitar starts around $150 and would get you 90% of the way there.

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