About A Girl amp settings — Fender Mustang LT25

The Nirvana guitar tone for “About A Girl”, dialed in for a Fender Mustang LT25 with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Studio version, Bleach (1989) — recorded December 1988 at Reciprocal Recording

Original rig

Epiphone ET270 guitar → Boss DS-1 → 1968 Fender Twin Reverb into BFI Bullfrog 2x12 cabinet with Celestions

Clean, slightly gritty with subtle edge-of-breakup warmth; dry and direct with no reverb

Amp settings — Fender Mustang LT25

CHANNELFender '65 Twin Reverb model (or closest clean Fender voicing available)BRIGHToffBOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPneck+middle TONE7 VOLUME10

Why these settings

The original used a Twin Reverb — your Mustang LT25's Twin model is a direct match. Your Strat's single coils are brighter and have less output than the Epiphone's humbuckers, so I raised mid +1 and rolled tone knob to 7 to warm the attack. The recording is bone dry — reverb stays at 0. For the clean rhythm tone, no DS-1 is needed; gain at 3 gives slight tube warmth without breakup.

PRO TIPTune to E♭ standard (half-step down). Use consistent downstroke strumming on the Em-G progression and dig in slightly harder on the G to match Cobain's dynamic accent on the chord change.

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