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Slow Dancing in a Burning Room amp settings — Fender Twin Reverb

The John Mayer guitar tone for “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room”, dialed in for a Fender Twin Reverb with a PRS SE Custom 24. Studio version, Continuum (2006)

Original rig

1964 Fender Stratocaster (neck-middle position) → Klon Centaur → Fender Deluxe (main), Two-Rock Custom Reverb (overdubs), Dumble SSS + Marshall (solo)

Warm, glassy clean with touch-sensitive edge-of-breakup, transparent boost sustain, lush room reverb

Amp settings — Fender Twin Reverb

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

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Guitar

PICKUPneck+middle TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Klon Centaur (use HX Stomp 'Minotaur' model)

Always-on transparent boost — low gain, level pushed to drive the Twin's preamp into touch-sensitive breakup

Gain 2 · Treble 5 · Level 7

02Tube Screamer (use HX Stomp 'Scream 808' model)

Stack on top of Minotaur for solo sections only — adds mid-push and sustain

Drive 2 · Tone 5 · Level 6

03Delay (use HX Stomp 'Vintage Digital' or 'Transistor Tape')

Subtle slapback ~300-350ms, low in mix — adds depth without washing out note definition

Time 4 · Feedback 3 · Mix 3

Why these settings

Your Twin Reverb is the closest match to the original Deluxe voicing — same Fender clean platform but louder and more headroom, so gain stays moderate at 4 to achieve edge-of-breakup rather than pristine clean. Your PRS SE Custom 24 has hotter humbuckers than Mayer's vintage single-coil Strat, so I dropped treble from the typical 6 to 5 and rolled your guitar's tone knob to 7 to tame the upper-mid harshness and approximate that glassy Strat quack.

PRO TIPMayer's dynamics come from his right hand — pick softly for clean passages and dig in hard for the singing lead lines. The Klon's low gain lets your attack control the breakup; if it sounds too clean, pick harder near the bridge rather than adding gain.

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