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Cubicles amp settings — fedner frontman 10g

The My Chemical Romance guitar tone for “Cubicles”, dialed in for a fedner frontman 10g with a Ibanez GIO GRG170DX. Studio version, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love (2002)

Original rig

Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier, Gibson Les Paul with humbuckers, no major pedals on rhythm tone - raw amp distortion recorded by John Naclerio at Nada Recording

Aggressive mid-scooped post-hardcore crunch with tight palm mutes and raw punk edge
Amp settings — fedner frontman 10g
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GAIN 3 BASS 4 TREBLE 6 REVERB 0 MASTER 5
KnobSetting (0–10)
Gain3
Bass4
Treble6
Reverb0
Master5
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Signal chain

01Behringer SF300 Super Fuzz

Set mode switch to position 2 (mid-scooped distortion) for Rectifier-style scoop. This is your primary gain source - amp stays clean.

Level 6 · Tone 5 · Gain 6
Why these settings

The Frontman 10G cannot produce high-gain distortion - its single preamp stage stays clean even at max. Your SF300 on mode 2 delivers the scooped Rectifier-style saturation this tone needs. Amp gain at 3 keeps it as a clean platform; treble at 6 compensates for the SF300's darker voicing vs a real Recto. Bass at 4 prevents the small 6-inch speaker from farting out on palm mutes.

PRO TIPDig in hard with downstrokes on the low E palm mutes - early MCR tone is about attack aggression, not sustain. Roll tone knob to 8 to tame the fuzz's fizz on open chords while keeping bite on single notes.

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