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No Other Heart amp settings — M-Wave AnnBlackBox

The Mac DeMarco guitar tone for “No Other Heart”, dialed in for a M-Wave AnnBlackBox with a RJ Skycaster. Studio version, Another One (2015) / Salad Days era tone

Original rig

1970s Fender Silverface Vibro-Champ + Fender Stratocaster / Teisco + Boss CE-2 Chorus + Roland RE-201 Space Echo / Alesis MicroVerb

Warm, warbly lo-fi clean with pronounced analog chorus wobble, rolled-off highs, and light room ambiance

Amp settings — M-Wave AnnBlackBox

CHANNELUS Clean (Fender-style) amp model + 1x8/1x10 Vintage Cab IRBRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	3
Bass	6
Mid	5
Treble	4
Reverb	4
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPneck+middle TONE7 VOLUME9

Signal chain

01Chorus block (Boss CE-2 style)

Placed before delay/reverb to create the signature slow, deep Pitch/Chorus wobble

Rate 6 · Depth 7

02Spring / Plate Reverb block

Provides the loose vintage small-combo spring reflection

Decay 4 · Tone 4 · Mix 3

Why these settings

The M-Vave AnnBlackBox's US Clean model matches the low-wattage Fender Vibro-Champ clean headroom. Treble is pulled back to 4 and guitar tone to 7 to recreate the warm, tape-saturated top end Mac gets from vintage pickups and tape machines. The built-in CE-2 chorus model is set moderately deep with medium rate for the iconic detuned indie vibrato.

PRO TIPPick lightly with the flesh of your fingers or a thin, flexible pick near the neck pickup to capture Mac's relaxed, rounded transient response.

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