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Zombie Eyed amp settings — Boss Katana 50

The The Dirty Nil guitar tone for “Zombie Eyed”, dialed in for a Boss Katana 50 with a Ibanez AS153. Studio version, Higher Power (2016) — produced by Shehzaad Jiwani and Adam Bentley, mixed by John Goodmanson

Original rig

Luke Bentham uses Gibson Les Paul-style guitars with humbuckers into cranked Marshall-style amps (JCM800/Plexi territory) with heavy gain staging; thick, clear production with punk intensity and arena-rock ambitions

Thick, saturated punk-rooted alt-rock crunch with aggressive upper-mids, full low-end, and screaming vocal-range harmonics — raw but polished

Amp settings — Boss Katana 50

CHANNELBrownBOOSToff

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

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Why these settings

Brown channel replicates the Marshall-derived saturation Luke Bentham uses. Your AS153's semi-hollow body with Super 58 humbuckers naturally adds low-mid warmth similar to a Les Paul — mid at 7 pushes the aggressive bark that cuts through on this track. Gain at 8 reaches the saturated-but-defined crunch without fizzing out; the Katana's Brown voice compresses similarly to a cranked Plexi. No presence knob exists on Katana 50.

PRO TIPDig in hard with downstrokes on the palm-muted sections — Bentham's attack is aggressive and the Katana's Brown channel responds dynamically to picking intensity, so lighter touch cleans up while heavy attack gets the feral punk grind.

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