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Paranoid android amp settings — Zoom G1X Four

The RadioHead guitar tone for “Paranoid android”, dialed in for a Zoom G1X Four with a Fender Vintera 50s Telecaster. Studio version, OK Computer (1997) — focusing on the iconic heavy middle section ('kicking squealing Gucci little piggy') as the most-requested tone

Original rig

Fender Telecaster Plus with Lace Sensors, Marshall Shredmaster pedal into Fender Eighty-Five amp (transistor), Electro-Harmonix Small Stone phaser for clean sections, DOD 440 envelope filter for solos

Aggressive, fizzy, saturated distortion with scooped mids and cutting high-end — raw and abrasive, not refined

Amp settings — Zoom G1X Four

CHANNELMS 800 (Marshall 800 model) or MS CRUNCH — closest to Shredmaster-into-clean-amp characterBOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01ZNR (Noise Reduction) — built into G1X Four

Tame the fizz between phrases

Depth 3

02Dist+ or RAT (Distortion block in G1X Four)

Stacked before the amp model to emulate Shredmaster — set amp model to cleaner base

Gain 7 · Tone 6 · Level 7

03Phaser (for clean verse sections only)

Bypass for heavy section — use only on clean arpeggiated verse

Rate 3 · Depth 5

04AutoWah/Envelope Filter (for solo section 5:38+)

Emulates DOD 440 — sweep manually by picking dynamics; bypass elsewhere

Sens 7 · Peak 6

Why these settings

The Shredmaster into a solid-state Fender was the actual rig — the G1X Four's Marshall-style models get close but lack the specific Shredmaster fizz. Using a Dist+ or RAT block before a cleaner amp model approximates the pedal-into-clean-amp topology. Scooped mids (-2 from neutral) match the aggressive but hollow character. Your Vintera Tele with its vintage-output single coils is brighter than Greenwood's Lace Sensors, so tone knob at 7 tames the ice-pick.

PRO TIPGreenwood's attack on the heavy section is loose and almost sloppy — palm-mute lightly and dig in hard with the pick near the bridge for that raw, unpolished aggression. Don't try to make it sound refined; the chaos is the point.

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