Somewhere I Belong amp settings — Fender Blues Junior IV

The LINKIN PARK guitar tone for “Somewhere I Belong”, dialed in for a Fender Blues Junior IV with a Fender American Ultra Stratocaster. Studio version, Meteora (2003) — signature heavy chorus and riff tone

The Blues Junior IV is a low-to-medium gain vintage tube platform that cannot reach modern Mesa Dual Rectifier saturation on its own, so the MXR Distortion+ acts as the dedicated high-gain engine into a clean amp setting with gain kept low to prevent double-gain mud. To counter the Stratocaster's bright single-coil bridge pickup and the Fender amp's naturally piercing upper-shelf frequencies, treble is pulled back to 4 on the amp and tone is rolled down to 8 on the guitar, while mids and bass are pushed up to simulate the thick, wall-of-sound humbucker chunk of the original PRS. Clean intro: bypass the MXR Distortion+ and switch to the neck pickup.

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