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No Stranger To You... amp settings — Fender Concert

The LOATHE guitar tone for “No Stranger To You...”, dialed in for a Fender Concert with a Fender Squier Stratocaster. Studio version, A Stranger to You (2024) — closing dream-metal/shoegaze track

Original rig

Fender Bassman (silver-panel), Fender Telecaster/Stratocaster, Lothario baritone, Universal Audio and Neural DSP plugins for processing, heavy reverb/delay layering

Lush, atmospheric clean-to-shimmer with warm low-mids, pillowy reverb wash, and gentle drive on swells — dreamy and emotional rather than aggressive

Amp settings — Fender Concert

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Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	3
Bass	6
Mid	5
Treble	5
Reverb	8
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE6 VOLUME8

Signal chain

01Boss DS-1 Distortion

Use as a very mild boost/texture for the louder swells only — bypass for the clean ambient sections. Dist at 1 adds harmonic warmth without actual distortion

Tone 3 · Level 6 · Dist 1

02Delay (digital or tape-style)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Essential for this tone; aim for 400-500ms delay with high repeats. A Boss DD-3/DD-7 or TC Electronic Flashback would work

E.Level 5 · F.Back 6 · D.Time 7

Why these settings

Your Fender Concert shares DNA with Bickerstaffe's Bassman — both are Fender blackface/silverface voiced with strong cleans and a similar EQ curve, so translation is direct. I rolled treble back to 5 (Bassman originals run warmer than modern Fenders) and pushed reverb to 8 to approximate the heavy plugin-based wash on the recording. The Strat neck pickup into a Fender clean is exactly the platform used here.

PRO TIPThe emotional swell dynamics on this track come from riding your guitar's volume knob — start verses at volume 6-7 for glassy shimmer, push to 10 for the climactic sections. This lets the amp compress naturally without needing more gain, and it's how Bickerstaffe creates that 'breathing' quality in the dream-metal sections.

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