Everlong amp settings — Max music 40

The Foo Fighters guitar tone for “Everlong”, dialed in for a Max music 40 with a Max music Stratocaster. Studio version, The Colour and the Shape (1997) — iconic main drop-D verse/chorus riff

Original rig

Gibson Trini Lopez / ES-335 into Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier (Modern high-gain) with Marshall 4x12 cab and ProCo Rat

Punchy, saturated post-grunge crunch with scooped low-mids and sharp pick attack

Amp settings — Max music 40

CHANNELOverdrive / Drive ChannelBOOSTon

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	6
Mid	5
Treble	7
Reverb	2
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01ProCo Rat 2

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned; with this pedal, switch amp to clean channel with gain at 2

Distortion 6 · Filter 5 · Volume 7

Why these settings

The Max Music 40 is a practice solid-state amp with a standard 3-band EQ and drive switch, so we run the built-in overdrive channel at gain 7 to capture the heavy wall-of-sound saturation from the original Dual Rectifier. To compensate for the thin, bright single-coil pickups on the Strat copy versus Dave Grohl's thick humbucker-loaded Gibson, keep treble controlled at 7 and push bass to 6 for low-end body in drop-D. Clean intro: roll guitar volume back to 5 or switch off the amp drive button.

PRO TIPDrop your low E string to D and use aggressive, consistent downstrokes on the octaves and open D string while letting the high strings ring out for that signature massive chord spread.

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