Paranoid Android amp settings — NUX MG-300

The Radiohead guitar tone for “Paranoid Android”, dialed in for a NUX MG-300 with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Studio version, OK Computer (1997) — heavy middle section and outro riffs

The NUX MG-300 replicates Jonny Greenwood's clean solid-state Fender Eighty-Five platform via the clean Twin Reverb model, letting the high-gain distortion block provide all the clipping. Because the Player Strat single-coil has less low-end output than Greenwood's Lace Sensor Dually humbucker, the amp bass is boosted to 6 while keeping the mids scooped to capture that signature fizzy ShredMaster bite. Clean intro and outro acoustic sections switch off the distortion block and engage a subtle phaser block.

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