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The house of gold and bones amp settings — Glarry GA-20

The Stone sour guitar tone for “The house of gold and bones”, dialed in for a Glarry GA-20 with a Epiphone Les Paul Standard 60s. Studio version, House of Gold & Bones Part 1 (2012)

Original rig

Gibson Les Paul Custom (passive humbuckers) → EVH 5150III / Mesa Dual Rectifier, tuned to Drop C#, various drive and modulation pedals

Thick, modern high-gain metal with tight low-end, aggressive mids, and controlled top-end sizzle—downtuned chunk with clarity
Amp settings — Glarry GA-20
GAIN 8 BASS 4 MID 6 TREBLE 5 PRESENCE 0 REVERB 0 MASTER 5
KnobSetting (0–10)
Gain8
Bass4
Mid6
Treble5
Presence0
Reverb0
Master5
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PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10
Signal chain

01Tubescreamer-style Overdrive (e.g., Ibanez TS9, Joyo Vintage OD)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Essential for tightening the low-end on downtuned riffs and adding mid-focus. Run into the amp's dirty channel as a boost, not a standalone distortion.

Drive 1 · Tone 6 · Level 7
Why these settings

The Glarry GA-20 is a budget solid-state practice amp with limited headroom and a basic EQ section—it cannot replicate the 5150/Rectifier saturation or tight low-end response. Gain is pushed to 8 to maximize available dirt, but mids are boosted to 6 (vs a scooped Rectifier setting) because the GA-20 lacks the natural mid-presence of tube high-gain amps. Bass is restrained at 4 to prevent flub on downtuned material since the small speaker will mud out quickly. Your Epiphone LP 60s with ProBuckers is actually well-matched to the original Les Paul Customs—no guitar compensation needed.

PRO TIPThis tone requires Drop C# tuning (C# G# C# F# A# D#) to match the recording. Without a boost pedal, palm-mute harder and pick closer to the bridge to artificially tighten the attack. A $30 TS-clone (Joyo Vintage OD, Donner Morpher) running into the GA-20 with drive at minimum and level cranked will get you 60% closer to the tight modern metal sound than any amp-only setting can achieve on this rig.

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