Come As You Are amp settings — Marshall MG15CDR
The Nirvana guitar tone for “Come As You Are”, dialed in for a Marshall MG15CDR with a Fender Squier Debut Collection Telecaster 0379670554. Studio version, Nevermind (1991) — iconic watery clean intro riff
1965 Fender Jaguar / 1969 Mustang (neck pickup) -> Electro-Harmonix Small Clone chorus -> Mesa/Boogie Studio Preamp / Vox AC30 clean
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 2 |
| Bass | 6 |
| Mid | 5 |
| Treble | 4 |
| Reverb | 3 |
| Master | 5 |
01Electro-Harmonix Small Clone Chorus
RECOMMENDED — not currently owned; essential for the signature watery Nevermind modulation
The MG15CDR clean channel provides an uncolored solid-state platform with built-in spring reverb to capture the ambient space of Sound City Studios. Treble is dialed down to 4 and the Telecaster tone knob rolled back to 8 to tame the single-coil bridge bite and mimic Kurt's darker, warmer short-scale Mustang neck pickup. The amp lacks an onboard chorus, so getting an EHX Small Clone (or clone) in front is required for the iconic watery detune effect.
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