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Come As You Are amp settings — Nux Mighty Lite BT MkII

The Nirvana guitar tone for “Come As You Are”, dialed in for a Nux Mighty Lite BT MkII with a Squier Affinity Stratocaster. Studio version, Nevermind (1991)

Original rig

1965 Fender Jaguar (DiMarzio PAF neck pickup) → EH Small Clone chorus → Mesa/Boogie Studio .22 preamp (clean) → Crown Power Base 2 → Marshall 4x12

Warm, watery clean with deep chorus modulation; slightly broken-up edge on attack

Amp settings — Nux Mighty Lite BT MkII

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

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE5 VOLUME8

Signal chain

01Electro-Harmonix Small Clone (or chorus effect)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. This pedal IS the tone. The Nux Mighty Lite BT MkII has a built-in chorus effect; if accessible via app, set Rate slow (~3) and Depth full (10). Without chorus, you will not achieve this sound.

Rate 3 · Depth 10

Why these settings

Your Squier Strat's single-coil neck pickup is brighter and thinner than Cobain's DiMarzio PAF humbucker. I raised mid +1 from the original to compensate for the Strat's natural mid-scoop, and dropped treble -1 to tame single-coil ice-pick. The Nux Mighty Lite is a practice amp with digital voicing—keep gain low to preserve that slightly-breaking clean character rather than full distortion.

PRO TIPRoll your tone knob to 5 and pick lightly over the neck pickup—the chorus effect blooms when you give it a soft, consistent attack. The hypnotic quality comes from relaxed, even picking, not from digging in.

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