Come As You Are amp settings — Singer 100
The Nirvana guitar tone for “Come As You Are”, dialed in for a Singer 100 with a Selder Stratocaster. Studio version, Nevermind (1991)
1965 Fender Jaguar (neck pickup, DiMarzio PAF) → EH Small Clone chorus → Boss DS-1 → Mesa/Boogie Studio .22 preamp → Crown Power Base 2 → Marshall 4x12
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 3 |
| Bass | 5 |
| Mid | 6 |
| Treble | 6 |
| Presence | 5 |
| Reverb | 0 |
| Master | 6 |
01Mooer Ge100 — Chorus effect
This is the signature sound — deep, slow chorus. Keep it on for the entire song. Select the deepest/analog chorus model available on the Ge100.
02Mooer Ge100 — Distortion effect (for chorus sections)
Engage only for the loud chorus sections. Select a DS-1 or 'Orange Dist' style model. Keep chorus running underneath.
Your Selder Strat's single-coil neck pickup is brighter and thinner than Cobain's PAF humbucker, so I rolled tone to 5 and bumped mid +1 to compensate for the lost warmth. The Singer 100 is a practice amp with limited headroom — keep gain low and let the Ge100's distortion do the heavy lifting on chorus sections. The Ge100's chorus won't have the exact Small Clone depth, so max out the depth parameter.
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