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ヴェル・エール「Bel Air」 amp settings — Fender Mustang 1

The Hikaya guitar tone for “ヴェル・エール「Bel Air」”, dialed in for a Fender Mustang 1 with a Fender Player Telecaster. Original studio version — MALICE MIZER, 'merveilles' era (1998). Cover versions may vary.

Original rig

Mana: ESP custom guitars (humbuckers), Marshall JCM800/900-style amps, Boss CE-series chorus, digital delay, light overdrive

Lush, atmospheric clean-to-edge-of-breakup with deep chorus modulation and ambient delay — gothic, ethereal, mid-rich

Amp settings — Fender Mustang 1

CHANNELBritish 70s (via FUSE software) — closest to Marshall JCM voicingBRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	3
Bass	5
Mid	7
Treble	5
Presence	4
Reverb	3
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE6 VOLUME8

Signal chain

01Mustang Built-in Chorus (via FUSE)

Essential for this tone — lush, slow chorus is the defining texture

Speed 3 · Depth 6 · Level 7

02Mustang Built-in Delay (via FUSE)

Moderate delay adds atmosphere without washing out notes — sync to ~350-400ms

Time 5 · Feedback 4 · Level 4

Why these settings

Your Telecaster's single coils are brighter and thinner than Mana's humbuckers. Compensate by using the neck pickup with tone rolled to 6, boosting mids +2 over a typical Marshall setting, and keeping treble conservative. The Mustang's British 70s model via FUSE gets closest to the JCM warmth. Volume at 8 allows subtle clean-up dynamics.

PRO TIPPick closer to the neck with the fleshy part of your fingers grazing the strings for that pillowy, rounded attack Mana uses on arpeggiated passages — this matters more than any knob setting for achieving the gothic atmosphere.

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