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come as you are amp settings — Fender Blues Junior IV

The nirvana guitar tone for “come as you are”, dialed in for a Fender Blues Junior IV with a Yamaha C40 Classical acoustic guitar. Studio version, Nevermind (1991) — iconic watery clean intro and main riff

Original rig

1965 Fender Jaguar / 1969 Mustang (D-Standard tuning, neck pickup) into Electro-Harmonix Small Clone chorus into Mesa/Boogie Studio Preamp, Crown Power Amp, and Marshall 4x12 cabinet

Warm, watery, dark clean tone with distinctive deep chorus modulation

Amp settings — Fender Blues Junior IV

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Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	3
Bass	6
Mid	5
Treble	4
Reverb	2
Master	4

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Electro-Harmonix Small Clone

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned (run direct into amp input)

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Why these settings

Because the Yamaha C40 is an acoustic nylon-string guitar with no pickups or onboard electronics, the tone is produced purely acoustically and cannot directly drive the Blues Junior without an external microphone or soundhole pickup. On the amp, treble is rolled back to 4 to prevent the typical Fender high-end spike from clashing with the dark studio voicing, while keeping the FAT switch off to preserve pristine clean headroom. Adding an EHX Small Clone is essential to capturing the signature watery modulation of the studio track. Distorted chorus section: step on an owned Boss DS-1 or kick on the amp's FAT boost with gain at 8.

PRO TIPKurt tuned down one whole step to D-Standard (D-G-C-F-A-D) for this track, which adds natural low-end slack and darkness to the riff that standard tuning cannot replicate.

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