Basket Case amp settings — Nux Mg 300 mk2

The Green Day guitar tone for “Basket Case”, dialed in for a Nux Mg 300 mk2 with a PRS Custom 22. Studio version, Dookie (1994) — signature rhythm crunch

Original rig

Fernandes RST-50 'Blue' (Seymour Duncan JB bridge humbucker) straight into modified 1959SLP Marshall Plexi 100W heads ('Pete' Bradshaw mod & 'Meat' SE+ mod) into Marshall 4x12 cabs

Punchy, dry, aggressive 90s pop-punk crunch with sharp pick attack and tight low end

Amp settings — Nux Mg 300 mk2

CHANNELPlexi 100 (Brit 1959) amp block + 1960A 4x12 Greenback cab IRBRIGHTonBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	5
Mid	7
Treble	7
Presence	6
Reverb	0
Master	8

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Why these settings

The NUX MG-300 Brit 1959 model replicates the cranked Marshall Plexi response that defined Dookie. We keep mids and treble pushed to 7 to recreate the upper-mid bite of the Bradshaw mod, while pulling bass to 5 to prevent low-end flub on fast palm mutes. The tone is completely dry without reverb to preserve the punchy in-your-face room sound.

PRO TIPDig in hard near the bridge with a thick, rigid pick (0.88mm to 1.0mm) and hit aggressive, full-wrist downstrokes to get the percussive string snap essential to Billie Joe's attack.

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