Naive amp settings — Bogner Uberschall

The The Kooks guitar tone for “Naive”, dialed in for a Bogner Uberschall with a Ibanez GIO GRG170DX. Studio version, Inside In/Inside Out (2006)

Original rig

Vox AC30 (Top Boost channel), Duesenberg Starplayer TV or Fender Stratocaster, light Tube Screamer for edge

Jangly, chimey clean with slight edge-of-breakup grit, airy and bright

Amp settings — Bogner Uberschall

CHANNELClean channel (if available) — NOTE: The Uberschall is designed for high-gain metal and has no true clean channel. Use the lowest-gain channel with gain floored.BRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	1
Bass	4
Mid	6
Treble	5
Presence	3
Reverb	0
Master	4

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE7 VOLUME8

Signal chain

01Tube Screamer (TS9 or clone) — RECOMMENDED, not currently owned

RECOMMENDED — not owned. Use as a light clean boost to add subtle grit without saturating. Without this, the tone will be either too sterile or too aggressive on the Uberschall.

Drive 2 · Tone 5 · Level 6

Why these settings

This is a significant mismatch. The Uberschall is a tight, scooped, high-gain monster designed for djent and metal—it has no Vox-style chime or Class A breakup. I've set gain to absolute minimum (1) and pulled presence down to 3 to tame the fizz and aggression. Your Ibanez GIO has ceramic humbuckers (hotter than the original's single coils or low-output Duesenberg humbuckers), so I've rolled guitar volume to 8 and tone to 7 to soften the attack. Mids pushed to 6 to counter the Uberschall's natural scoop. Honestly, you'll get closer to this tone by buying a £30 TS clone and keeping gain floored than any Uberschall setting.

PRO TIPPick closer to the neck with the fleshy part of your fingers for a rounder attack—this song's strumming is loose and jangly, not tight and percussive. The Uberschall will punish hard picking with unwanted grit, so lighten your touch dramatically.

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