Regular john amp settings — Roland Cube 30x
The Queens of the stone age guitar tone for “Regular john”, dialed in for a Roland Cube 30x with a Squier Affinity Stratocaster. Studio version, Queens of the Stone Age (1998)
Ovation GP / Maton hollowbody into Ampeg VT-40 / Peavey Decade with mid-focused parametric/cocked-wah EQ
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 2 |
| Bass | 7 |
| Mid | 9 |
| Treble | 3 |
| Reverb | 0 |
| Master | 5 |
The Roland Cube 30X has no presence control, so presence is nulled. To compensate for single-coil Strat pickups against Josh Homme's thick humbucker tone, we use the neck pickup with the tone rolled down to 5 and bump the amp mids to 9. The DS-1 provides the primary gain on the clean channel, with its Tone dialed back to 3 to tame treble fizziness and capture that boxy, mid-forward Ampeg/Peavey crunch.
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