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God Save the Queen amp settings — Fender Frontman 10g

The Sex Pistols guitar tone for “God Save the Queen”, dialed in for a Fender Frontman 10g with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Studio version, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (1977), Wessex Studios

Original rig

1974 Gibson Les Paul Custom (bridge humbucker) → Fender Twin Reverb (silverface) cranked to 10, no pedals

Thick, grinding power-chord crunch with congested low-mids around 500Hz, relatively scooped upper-mids, raw and aggressive

Amp settings — Fender Frontman 10g

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE6 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Distortion (unspecified type)

REQUIRED — the Frontman 10G is a solid-state practice amp with no power tube breakup; your distortion pedal must provide ALL the gain. Set amp gain low to keep it clean, let the pedal do the work.

Gain/Dist 6 · Tone 4 · Level 7

Why these settings

Jones got his crunch from a 100W Twin dimed — your 10W solid-state Frontman cannot replicate power tube saturation, so the distortion pedal is essential. Your Strat's single-coil bridge is brighter and thinner than his Les Paul humbucker, so I've rolled tone_knob to 6 to tame icepick highs, boosted bass +2 vs a neutral starting point, and cut treble to 4. The pedal's tone knob at 4 further darkens things toward that thick, midrange-heavy Pistols grind.

PRO TIPJones layered multiple guitar tracks on the album — to get closer to that wall-of-sound density, palm-mute aggressively on the low strings and dig in hard with downstrokes only; the attack transient is half the tone.

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