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Living After Midnight amp settings — Traynor Ycv40

The Judas Priest guitar tone for “Living After Midnight”, dialed in for a Traynor Ycv40 with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Studio version, British Steel (1980), recorded at Startling Studios with producer Tom Allom

Original rig

Marshall JMP Master Volume 2203/2204 heads, Gibson Flying V (KK Downing) + Gibson Les Paul Custom/SG (Glenn Tipton), Boss OD-1 Overdrive for boost, minimal effects

Classic British steel crunch with aggressive midrange bark, tight low-end, and searing upper-mid bite — twin-guitar attack with moderate gain and exceptional note clarity

Amp settings — Traynor Ycv40

CHANNELOverdriveBRIGHToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Why these settings

The YCV40 is EL84-based with a Fender-influenced clean channel and a British-voiced overdrive channel — use the Overdrive channel to approximate the JMP's crunch. Your Strat's single coils are brighter and lower output than the original humbuckers, so mid is pushed to 8 (vs original 7) to compensate for the thinner midrange and gain stays moderate at 6 to avoid fizz. Bass dropped to 5 to prevent flub from the Strat's lower-end response. The YCV40 lacks presence and reverb knobs — the recording was dry anyway.

PRO TIPRoll tone knob to 8 to tame the Strat's ice-pick highs on the bridge pickup and get closer to the humbucker's rounder top-end; dig in hard with the pick near the bridge for that aggressive Priest attack, and keep palm mutes tight — this tone lives on articulation, not saturation.

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