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Killing In The Name amp settings — Orange Crush 12

The Rage Against The Machine guitar tone for “Killing In The Name”, dialed in for a Orange Crush 12 with a Ibanez GIO GRG170DX. Studio album version, Rage Against The Machine (1992) — main Drop-D rhythm riff

Original rig

1982 Fender Standard Telecaster ('Sendero Luminoso', neck single-coil pickup, Drop D) into Marshall JCM800 2205 50W head (boost channel cranked) through a Peavey 4x12 cabinet

Raw, punchy British crunch with tight low end and hollow single-coil neck bite

Amp settings — Orange Crush 12

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Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	6
Mid	6
Treble	7
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Boss DS-1 Distortion

Gain source — drives the clean Orange input to emulate cranked JCM800 bite (duplicate DS-1 bypassed)

Tone 4 · Level 7 · Dist 5

Why these settings

Because the Orange Crush 12 is a single-channel analog practice amp with a naturally dark voice, the DS-1 is used as the primary gain stage into a low-gain amp setting (gain 2) to prevent muddy double-gain. Treble on the amp is pushed to 7 to compensate for the Orange's thick low-mids and capture the Marshall 2205 top-end bite. Tone on the DS-1 is pulled back to 4 to prevent the bridge-position humbucker/neck pickup transition from getting shrill.

PRO TIPTom Morello tracked this iconic riff exclusively on his Telecaster's neck single-coil in Drop D; on your Ibanez HSH, switch to the neck pickup and dig in aggressively near the bridge with heavy downstrokes to get that hollow, percussive snap without mud.

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