Hunted down amp settings — Marshall MG30CFX
The Soundgarden guitar tone for “Hunted down”, dialed in for a Marshall MG30CFX with a Squier Affinity Stratocaster. Studio version, Screaming Life EP (1987) / Sub Pop debut single
1970s Guild S-100 (bridge humbucker) into Ampeg bass amp / Leslie 147 rotating speaker with aggressive fuzz/distortion
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 2 |
| Bass | 7 |
| Mid | 4 |
| Treble | 5 |
| Reverb | 2 |
| Master | 6 |
Because the Boss DS-1 acts as the primary gain source to capture Kim Thayil's early heavy fuzz-distortion tone, the MG30CFX is parked strictly on the clean channel with gain dropped to 2 to avoid muddy double-clipping. On your Squier Strat's bright single-coil bridge pickup, rolling the guitar tone to 7 and pulling the DS-1 tone knob down to 4 fattens the attack and simulates Thayil's thick Guild humbuckers. Bass is bumped to 7 on the amp to reproduce the low-end rumble of his early Ampeg rig. (Clean verse: roll guitar volume down to 6).
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