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Teenagers amp settings — Boss Katana 50 MkII

The My chemical romance guitar tone for “Teenagers”, dialed in for a Boss Katana 50 MkII with a Squier Affinity Telecaster. Studio version, The Black Parade (2006) — main rhythm crunch tone

Original rig

Marshall JCM800 / DSL + Gibson Les Paul (humbuckers) with light overdrive

Mid-forward, punchy 70s glam-rock crunch with tight low-end and vocal upper mids

Amp settings — Boss Katana 50 MkII

CHANNELCrunch amp typeBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	6
Bass	6
Mid	7
Treble	5
Reverb	2
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Why these settings

The Katana's Crunch mode captures the Marshall JCM800 bite, while pushing the mids to 7 supplies the vocal glam-punk punch of the original record. To compensate for the Squier Telecaster's brighter, thinner single-coil bridge pickup compared to Ray Toro's humbuckers, bass is bumped to 6 and the guitar tone knob is rolled back to 8 to tame the top-end spike.

PRO TIPDig in hard with downstrokes close to the bridge to emulate the percussive, snappy attack of the verse chords.

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