Snow amp settings — Fender Mustang Micro Plus
The Red hot chilli peppers guitar tone for “Snow”, dialed in for a Fender Mustang Micro Plus with a Cort G290 Modern. Studio version, Stadium Arcadium (2006)
1962 Fender Stratocaster → Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble → Marshall Major 200W (clean)
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 2 |
| Bass | 6 |
| Mid | 5 |
| Treble | 6 |
| Presence | 7 |
| Reverb | 2 |
| Master | 7 |
01Chorus (Mustang Micro Plus onboard effect)
Essential to the tone — use the modulation slot, set to a warm analog-style chorus. The CE-1 is slow and deep, not fast and watery.
Frusciante used a Marshall Major clean, which is surprisingly Fender-like at low gain — big, glassy headroom. Your Mustang Micro's 65 Twin model nails this voicing directly. Your Cort's humbuckers are hotter than Frusciante's vintage Strat single coils, so I dropped gain to 2 and pulled treble back one notch to prevent harshness. The neck pickup with tone at 8 softens the attack slightly to match single-coil sweetness.
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