Hysteria amp settings — Orange Crush Bass 50
The Muse guitar tone for “Hysteria”, dialed in for a Orange Crush Bass 50 with a Squier Affinity Jazz Bass. Studio version, Absolution (2003)
Pedulla Rapture RB5 into a three-way split: clean Marshall DBS 7400, Sovtek 'Civil War' / Black Russian Big Muff Pi, and Human Gear Animato, doubled with a Roland JP-8080/Kyma synth
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 2 |
| Bass | 7 |
| Mid | 6 |
| Treble | 5 |
| Master | 5 |
01Boss ODB-3 Bass Overdrive
Clean-blend low-end anchor: Balance set around 11 o'clock retains clean punch underneath
02ProCo RAT2
Provides the biting, abrasive Animato-style upper-mid grind; into clean amp input
The Orange Crush Bass 50 does not have a presence or reverb knob (both null), but its Mid Freq knob should be set to roughly 700Hz with Middle bumped to 6. Wolstenholme used parallel rigs to blend clean low-end with Big Muff fuzz and Animato distortion; we replicate this by running the ODB-3 with its Balance knob favoring clean to preserve the sub-bass foundation while the RAT2 provides the biting, synth-like top-end teeth into your clean amp. Keep the Orange's onboard Gain and Blend at minimum so the pedals shape the overdrive cleanly without muddy amp clipping.
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