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Chocolate amp settings — Line 6 Pod Hd500x

The The 1975 guitar tone for “Chocolate”, dialed in for a Line 6 Pod Hd500x with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Studio version, The 1975 debut album (2013)

Original rig

Hiwatt combo + Fano JM6 (P-90s), Blackstar Artisan 30 + Fender Mustang, Boss Compressor, Analogman King of Tone, Boss DD-3, Eventide Space, EHX Clone Theory chorus

Crystal clean with heavy compression, bright shimmery top-end, wide stereo delay/reverb wash, subtle drive on rhythm parts

Amp settings — Line 6 Pod Hd500x

CHANNELHiway 100 model (based on Hiwatt DR103) — clean channelBRIGHTonBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	4
Mid	6
Treble	8
Presence	7
Reverb	0
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPneck+middle TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Red Comp (Boss CS-3 style compressor)

Heavy compression is essential — this is the foundation of the tone

Sustain 7 · Level 6

02Screamer (Tube Screamer style — use as clean boost)

Approximates King of Tone — low drive, used to add presence and subtle grit

Drive 2 · Tone 6 · Level 7

03Analog Chorus

Subtle width — mimics EHX Clone Theory for that '80s shimmer

Speed 3 · Depth 5 · Mix 4

04Digital Delay (DD-3 style)

Set delay time around 350-400ms, dotted-eighth feel

Time 5 · Feedback 4 · Mix 5

05Spring Reverb

Light spring verb for atmosphere — not drenched

Decay 5 · Mix 4 · Tone 6

Why these settings

Your Strat's single coils are brighter and lower output than the original P-90s, so I pushed treble to 8 and added the Screamer as a clean boost to thicken the tone. The Hiway 100 model is the closest to Hann's Hiwatt — transparent and clean with tight low-end. Compression is doing most of the tonal heavy lifting here; crank it.

PRO TIPUse position 4 (neck+middle) with your tone knob at 7 to tame the Strat's ice-pick highs while keeping that glassy clarity. Pick closer to the neck with a light attack — The 1975's guitar parts are about texture and space, not aggression.

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