The pretender amp settings — Fender Pr 241
The Foofighters guitar tone for “The pretender”, dialed in for a Fender Pr 241 with a Squier Affinity Telecaster. Studio version, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007)
Gibson Trini Lopez Standard (PAF-style humbuckers) → Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier (Modern channel) for chorus; Vox AC30 for clean intro/verse sections
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 3 |
| Bass | 4 |
| Mid | 6 |
| Treble | 5 |
| Presence | 0 |
| Reverb | 0 |
| Master | 6 |
01Boss DS-1 Distortion
RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Essential for chorus high-gain wall. The Fender PR 241 cannot produce Rectifier-level saturation on its own. A DS-1 (~$50) or RAT clone gets you there.
The original runs a semi-hollow humbucker into a Mesa Rectifier's scooped modern high-gain — your Fender PR 241 is a solid-state practice amp with clean Fender voicing and no high-gain channel. Without a distortion pedal, you cannot reach this tone. I've set the amp nearly clean (gain 3) so the recommended DS-1 provides all the saturation; mid pushed to 6 to compensate for the Telecaster's brighter single-coil bridge vs the original's warm PAF humbucker.
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