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Go with the flow amp settings — Boss Katana

The Queens of the stone age guitar tone for “Go with the flow”, dialed in for a Boss Katana with a Harley benton St modern. Studio version, Songs for the Deaf (2002)

Original rig

Gibson Marauder (bridge humbucker) → ZVEX Super Hard On → Stone Deaf PDF-1 → Hughes & Kettner Tube Rotosphere → Boss GE-7 → Peavey Decade

Tight, grinding mid-forward distortion with gated attack and subtle rotary swirl

Amp settings — Boss Katana

CHANNELCrunchBRIGHToffBOOSTon

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	6
Bass	4
Mid	8
Treble	5
Presence	6
Reverb	0
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE6 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Katana Built-in Booster (Clean Boost type)

Use the Booster effect set to Clean Boost mode to replicate ZVEX Super Hard On pushing the front end

Level 7 · Tone 5

02Katana Built-in Parametric EQ

Approximates the Stone Deaf PDF-1's mid-focused filtering — boost 400-800Hz range

Low 4 · Low-Mid 7 · High-Mid 6 · High 4

03Katana Built-in Phaser (set slow)

Subtle stand-in for the Rotosphere rotary effect — keep it slow and barely audible

Rate 2 · Depth 3

Why these settings

Your Strat-style single coils are brighter and lower output than Homme's Marauder humbucker, so mids are pushed to 8 and treble dropped to 5 to compensate. The Katana's Crunch channel with Boost engaged replicates the pushed-but-tight Peavey Decade character. Roll the tone knob to 6 to thicken the single coil's attack.

PRO TIPHomme's pick attack is aggressive and downstroke-heavy with palm muting riding right on the edge of the bridge — anchor your palm firmly and dig in hard to get that percussive, gated thump that defines this riff.

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