August 10 amp settings — Line 6 Spider ii 30

The Julie Doiron guitar tone for “August 10”, dialed in for a Line 6 Spider ii 30 with a Strandberg Boden Standard. Studio version, Broken Girl (originally released 1996 / remastered 2003)

Original rig

Fender Mustang / vintage electric guitar into low-wattage tube combo amp (raw, direct, unpolished lo-fi clean)

Lo-fi, dry, slightly biting and raw indie/slowcore clean tone

Amp settings — Line 6 Spider ii 30

CHANNELClean

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

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Guitar

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Why these settings

Set the Spider II to the Clean amp model with Drive at 4 to simulate the modest tube warmth and low-headroom breakup of a small vintage combo. On the Strandberg, split the humbuckers using the middle switch position to mimic the thinner, spikier single-coil snap of a vintage Fender Mustang. Keep the reverb completely off to preserve the dry, intimate bedroom-recorded space of the original track.

PRO TIPPick with bare fingers or a very thin plectrum close to the bridge to capture the dry, brittle indie-folk attack and intimate vocal-guitar separation.

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