Creep amp settings — Cort Cm15r
The Radio head guitar tone for “Creep”, dialed in for a Cort Cm15r with a Fender Squire. Studio version, Pablo Honey (1992) — clean verse tone. The distorted chorus tone requires a high-gain pedal you don't own.
Fender Telecaster Plus with Lace Sensor pickups → Fender Deluxe 85/Twin Reverb (clean) → Marshall Shredmaster (for distorted sections)
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 2 |
| Bass | 4 |
| Mid | 5 |
| Treble | 5 |
| Presence | 0 |
| Reverb | 2 |
| Master | 6 |
01ProCo RAT 2 or Boss DS-1
RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Essential for the crushing chorus tone. Without this pedal, you can only achieve the clean verse sound. A RAT or DS-1 clone ($30-50) gets you 90% there.
Your Cort CM15R is a basic solid-state practice amp with limited headroom — actually ideal for this clean tone since the original used clean Fender amps as a neutral platform. I dropped bass to 4 (vs original's 5) because small practice amp speakers get muddy fast. Treble stays moderate because your Squier's ceramic single coils are brighter than Greenwood's Lace Sensors. The distorted chorus is impossible without a dirt pedal — the CM15R's gain circuit won't produce that wall-of-sound crunch.
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