New faces in the dark amp settings — Fender Blues Junior IV

The Loathe guitar tone for “New faces in the dark”, dialed in for a Fender Blues Junior IV with a Squier Affinity Stratocaster. Studio version, I Let It in and It Took Everything (2020) — main heavy rhythm riff

The Blues Junior IV is a vintage-voiced tube combo with high clean headroom, so hitting the 'FAT' boost switch and pushing Volume/Gain to 9 is required to extract maximum natural overdrive from your unboosted rig. Bass is dialed back to 4 to prevent flub from low tunings on an open-back cabinet, while mids are pushed to 8 to compensate for Fender's inherent mid-scoop and deliver modern metal attack. With an added high-gain overdrive or distortion pedal, you would set the amp clean with Gain around 3 and let the pedal shape the saturation. Clean ambient bridge: engage the guitar volume roll-back to 5 with neck pickup.

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