My chemical romance amp settings — Ashdown engineering Killer Tone KT-15
The Give'em hell kid guitar tone for “My chemical romance”, dialed in for a Ashdown engineering Killer Tone KT-15 with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Studio version, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (2004)
Gibson Les Paul with humbuckers into Marshall JCM2000 DSL100, high-gain channel. Ray Toro used Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer for lead boosts; main rhythm tones were amp-driven distortion.
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 8 |
| Bass | 6 |
| Mid | 7 |
| Treble | 6 |
| Master | 6 |
01TS-style Overdrive (e.g. Ibanez TS9, Boss SD-1, or Behringer TO800)
RECOMMENDED — not owned. A Tube Screamer-style pedal tightens the low end, adds mid-push, and gets you closer to the Marshall DSL saturation character. Run it into the amp's clean channel if you add this pedal, with amp gain at 2-3.
The KT-15 is a small solid-state practice amp with limited gain and a compact speaker — it cannot replicate the Marshall DSL100's saturated tube crunch at high gain alone. I've maxed the overdrive channel's usable gain (8) and boosted mids +1 and bass +0.5 vs original to compensate for the Strat's thinner single-coil output vs the Les Paul humbuckers. Rolling tone to 7 warms the bridge pickup's ice-pick frequencies. For the real MCR chunk, a TS-style pedal into a cleaner amp setting is the proven path.
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