Monster amp settings — Boss Katana 50 MkII

The Skillet guitar tone for “Monster”, dialed in for a Boss Katana 50 MkII with a Fabio Stratocaster. Studio version, Awake (2009) — Ben Kasica on lead guitar

Original rig

Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier (Red Modern channel), Gibson Les Paul with humbuckers, Tube Screamer-style boost, noise gate

Tight, aggressive modern metal rhythm with slightly scooped mids and defined low end

Amp settings — Boss Katana 50 MkII

CHANNELBrownBRIGHToffBOOSToff

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

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Guitar

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Signal chain

01Katana Built-in Booster (set to CLEAN or TREBLE type)

Mimics the Tube Screamer boost Kasica used to tighten the Rectifier's low end — use Katana's BOOSTER effect in front of the amp model

Drive 0 · Bottom 5 · Tone 5 · Level 7

02Katana Built-in Noise Suppressor

Essential at this gain level for tight palm-muted chug without hiss between phrases

Threshold 4

Why these settings

The Katana's Brown voice approximates a hot-rodded Marshall rather than the original Rectifier's scooped modern voicing. Compensate by dropping mid from the original's 4 to 4 (no change needed — Brown is already mid-forward) and pushing treble to 7 for the aggressive bite. Your Strat's single-coil bridge pickup is thinner and brighter than Kasica's Les Paul humbuckers, so bass stays at 5 (not 6) to avoid flabbiness and gain goes to 7 for comparable saturation. The built-in booster is critical to tighten the low end the way a TS does on a Rectifier.

PRO TIPTune to Drop C as on the original recording. With a Strat, use heavier strings (.012-.054 minimum) to maintain tension and low-end authority in the drop tuning — without this, the open C power chords will sound loose and undefined regardless of amp settings.

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