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Forgotten amp settings — Orange Crush 12

The The Plot In You guitar tone for “Forgotten”, dialed in for a Orange Crush 12 with a Ibanez Gio RGR221PA. Studio version, Vol. 1 EP (2024)

Original rig

The Plot In You typically uses high-gain setups with Mesa Boogie and/or Axe-Fx/Kemper modeling for studio work, 7-string guitars with active pickups, octave pedals, and heavily processed tones with tight low-end characteristic of modern metalcore production

Tight, compressed modern metalcore with djent-influenced palm mutes, scooped mids, aggressive high-gain saturation, and octave-down effects on specific riffs
Amp settings — Orange Crush 12
CHANNELSingle channel (Dirty mode engaged)
GAIN 9 BASS 4 MID 3 TREBLE 7 REVERB 0 MASTER 6
KnobSetting (0–10)
Gain9
Bass4
Mid3
Treble7
Reverb0
Master6
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Guitar
PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10
Signal chain

01Noise Gate (RECOMMENDED — not owned)

RECOMMENDED — Essential for tight palm mutes and silence between chugs. Boss NS-2 or TC Sentry would work.

Threshold 6 · Decay 2

02Tube Screamer-style OD (RECOMMENDED — not owned)

RECOMMENDED — Run as a clean boost to tighten the low end and add pick attack. Drive at zero, level pushing the front end. TS Mini or EHX East River Drive are budget options.

Drive 0 · Tone 7 · Level 8

03Octave Pedal (RECOMMENDED — not owned)

RECOMMENDED — Used on specific riffs per the official tab. Boss OC-3 or Digitech Drop can approximate this. Engage only on marked sections.

Octave Down 7 · Dry 10 · Octave Up 0
Why these settings

The Orange Crush 12 is a practice amp with limited gain and no FX loop, so this tone will be approximated rather than replicated. I pushed gain to 9 and cut bass to 4 to prevent mud—Orange amps are naturally thick in the low-mids. Treble at 7 compensates for the Crush's warmth. Your Gio's passive IBZ-6 humbuckers are lower output than the active pickups used on the record, so the TS boost is critical for tightness and cut.

PRO TIPPalm mute extremely close to the bridge—within 1 inch—and use aggressive downpicking with your wrist locked. The tightness of modern metalcore chugs comes more from right-hand technique and a noise gate than from amp settings alone.

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