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Welcome to the Black Parade amp settings — Boss Katana 50 MkII

The My Chemical Romance guitar tone for “Welcome to the Black Parade”, dialed in for a Boss Katana 50 MkII with a Charvel Charvel Joe Duplantier Signature Pro- Mod San Dimas Style 2. Studio version, The Black Parade (2006) — main rhythm/lead rock explosion

Original rig

Marshall JCM800 (Rob Cavallo's 100W head) + Gibson Les Paul (Duncan Phat Cat / Duncan JB) + Boss GE-7 / TS9 boost

Punchy, saturated British high-gain crunch with upper-mid cut and tight low-end attack

Amp settings — Boss Katana 50 MkII

CHANNELBrown amp typeBOOSTon

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Katana Built-In Booster (TS / Clean OD model)

Built-in booster block (set type to Tube Screamer / OD-1 style)

Drive 2 · Tone 6 · Bottom 5 · Effect Level 8

Why these settings

The Katana's 'Brown' amp type captures the cranked hot-rodded Marshall JCM800 used by Ray Toro on the record. Because the Joe Duplantier Charvel features high-output passive Duncan humbuckers (PAF Pro / Fortitude), amp gain is set to 6 rather than pushed to extremes, using the Katana's internal OD booster to tighten the low end and add upper-mid bite. Presence is omitted as the Katana 50 MkII panel does not feature a physical presence knob.

PRO TIPDig in aggressively near the bridge on palm-muted eighth-note rhythms to get the percussive, mechanical chug that defines the full-band transition.

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