Light My Fire amp settings — Fender Frontman

The The Doors guitar tone for “Light My Fire”, dialed in for a Fender Frontman with a Fender Fender squire. Studio version, The Doors (1967)

The original was cut clean with high headroom on a Fender Twin Reverb using P-90s, so keep the Frontman on its clean channel with gain low to avoid harsh solid-state clipping. Single-coil Squier pickups are brighter and thinner than Krieger's P-90s, so treble is pulled back to 5 and the guitar tone knob is rolled down slightly to round out the high end. Bass is set moderately low at 4 to prevent the small Frontman practice speaker from farting out on low notes.

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