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3月5日 amp settings — Fender Mustang LT25

The Plastic Tree guitar tone for “3月5日”, dialed in for a Fender Mustang LT25 with a Squier Affinity Stratocaster. Studio version, Puppet Show album (1998)

Original rig

Plastic Tree guitarist Tadashi Hasegawa used ESP guitars with humbuckers through Marshall JCM900 or similar British-voiced tube amps with moderate gain, light chorus, and delay for this era's shoegaze-influenced visual kei sound

Dreamy, slightly overdriven shimmer with chorus modulation and ambient delay - melancholic visual kei shoegaze
Amp settings — Fender Mustang LT25
CHANNEL70s British (closest to Marshall voicing)BOOSToff
GAIN 5 BASS 5 MID 6 TREBLE 6 REVERB 4
KnobSetting (0–10)
Gain5
Bass5
Mid6
Treble6
Reverb4
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Guitar
PICKUPneck TONE6 VOLUME10
Why these settings

The Mustang LT25 70s British model approximates the mid-forward Marshall character Hasegawa used. Your Strat's single coils are brighter and lower output than his ESP humbuckers, so mid is pushed +1 and treble kept moderate to avoid ice-pick highs. Gain at 5 gives the soft-clipping shimmer without modern chunk. Use the amp's built-in modulation (chorus) and delay effects at subtle settings via the Fender Tone app.

PRO TIPRoll your tone knob to 6 and use the neck pickup to approximate humbucker warmth - pick lightly near the neck for that dreamy, pillowy attack characteristic of 90s visual kei clean-ish tones.

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