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Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Remastered 2012) amp settings — Boss GT-1

The The Smashing Pumpkins guitar tone for “Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Remastered 2012)”, dialed in for a Boss GT-1 with a Jackson JS22 Dinky. Studio album version, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995 / 2012 Remaster) — explosive chorus fuzz tone

Original rig

'57 Reissue Fender Stratocaster (Lace Sensor pickups) -> EHX Op-Amp Big Muff Pi / Boss FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz -> Marshall JCM 800 2203 / Marshall JMP-1 into Mesa Strategy 500

Massive, aggressive op-amp fuzz wall with tight low-end and cutting upper-mid bite

Amp settings — Boss GT-1

CHANNELCLEAN TWIN model + 2x12 cabBRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	6
Mid	5
Treble	6
Presence	4
Reverb	1
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01OD/DS (MUFF FUZZ block)

Gain source — emulates the Op-Amp Big Muff hitting a clean amp block

Drive 8 · Tone 7 · Level 6

02FX1/COMP (Parametric EQ block)

Placed after fuzz to restore the upper-mid bite (around 2kHz) lost by humbuckers

Low-Mid Freq 5 · Low-Mid Gain 3 · High-Mid Freq 6 · High-Mid Gain 5

Why these settings

Because the GT-1 Muff Fuzz block acts as the primary gain source, the Twin Clean preamp is set very clean to prevent double-gain flub. The Jackson JS22 ceramic humbuckers have a thicker low-end and darker attack than Corgan's Lace Sensor Stratocaster, so post-fuzz mids and treble are bumped to keep the chord walls articulate rather than muddy. Quiet verse clean: bypass the MUFF FUZZ block and roll guitar volume to 7.

PRO TIPHit full barre chords with an aggressive, downward pick stroke and let open strings chime where possible; the op-amp fuzz circuit compresses heavily, creating that distinct thick sustain only when driven by hard right-hand attack.

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