High and Dry amp settings — M-VAVE Cube Baby
The Radiohead guitar tone for “High and Dry”, dialed in for a M-VAVE Cube Baby with a Epiphone SG Standard. Studio version, The Bends (1995) — Jonny Greenwood's lead guitar and tremolo-driven lines
Fender Telecaster Plus (bridge pickup) → Marshall ShredMaster (light boost/overdrive) → Demeter Tremulator or Boss TR-2 → Vox AC30 Top Boost (Normal channel, edge of breakup) — recorded at Abbey Road Studios with SM57 off-axis
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 4 |
| Bass | 4 |
| Mid | 6 |
| Treble | 6 |
| Reverb | 2 |
| Master | 6 |
01M-VAVE Cube Baby — Tremolo block
Set rate to match song tempo (~84 BPM) — smooth sine-wave tremolo is essential to this tone
02M-VAVE Cube Baby — Overdrive/Boost block
Use as a light boost for the solo/chorus sections — engage for crunch, bypass for clean verses
The M-VAVE Cube Baby is a modeling unit — select the Vox/AC30-style amp model for that British chime. Your Epiphone SG humbuckers are warmer and hotter than Jonny's Telecaster single coils, so I dropped gain by 1 and raised treble by 1 to recover the jangle and string definition. The original relied on amp edge-of-breakup dynamics; use the internal OD block set very low as a clean boost rather than a distortion source.
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