Zero amp settings — Orange Crush 12

The Smashing pumpkins guitar tone for “Zero”, dialed in for a Orange Crush 12 with a Epiphone Les Paul Standard 60s. Studio version, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995) — main riff

Original rig

Fender Stratocaster (Lace Sensor Blue/Silver/Red) -> EHX Big Muff Pi -> Marshall JCM900 4100 Dual Reverb

Ultra-distorted, buzzing wall of fuzz with aggressive upper-mid bite and tight low end

Amp settings — Orange Crush 12

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	5
Mid	6
Treble	7
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01EHX Op-Amp Big Muff

Tone switch set to ON. Pedal acts as primary gain source into clean amp.

Volume 6 · Tone 7 · Sustain 9

Why these settings

The Op-Amp Big Muff is the entire source of saturation here, so the single-channel Crush 12's Gain must sit down at 2 to keep headroom clean and prevent double-gain flub. Because your Les Paul humbuckers have rounder top end and heavier low-mids than Billy's Lace Sensor Strat, push the amp's Treble to 7 and keep Bass at 5 to stop the fuzz from getting boomy. The Orange naturally has a warm, thick midrange, so running Mid at 6 maintains the cutting grind of the Mellon Collie recordings without extra presence available on this amp faceplate.

PRO TIPFor the signature 'Zero' muted octave chugs, clamp down hard with your fretting-hand index finger across unplayed strings while digging into the bridge pickup with a heavy pick angle to accentuate pick harmonics.

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