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Cant stop amp settings — Deviser TG-15

The Red Hot Chilli Peppers guitar tone for “Cant stop”, dialed in for a Deviser TG-15 with a Thomson Les Paul. Live performance — standard setlist version, commonly played on Telecaster with clean/edge-of-breakup tone

Original rig

1960 Fender Custom Telecaster or 1962 Stratocaster, Marshall Major 200W ('The Pig') or Marshall JMP, Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble preamp for body

Bright, percussive, funky rhythm attack — dry, mid-forward, clean with slight edge

Amp settings — Deviser TG-15

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	3
Bass	4
Mid	7
Treble	6
Reverb	0
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Why these settings

The Deviser TG-15 is an unrecognized small practice amp — knob names may differ on your faceplate; no presence control assumed. Frusciante's live clean tone is dry and percussive with moderate mids for funk cut-through. Your Les Paul's humbuckers are warmer and higher-output than his single-coil Tele/Strat, so I dropped gain to 3 (vs original 5-6) to stay clean, cut bass by 1 to reduce muddiness, and raised mid to 7 for that snappy attack. Treble at 6 prevents harshness from the humbucker. Reverb is 0 — the original tone is bone dry.

PRO TIPFrusciante's staccato funk attack comes from aggressive palm-muting and snapping the strings with the pick angled sharply — practice the 16th-note muting pattern more than the notes themselves; the tone is 50% technique.

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