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Quiet amp settings — Fender Frontman 15G

The The Smashing Pumpkins guitar tone for “Quiet”, dialed in for a Fender Frontman 15G with a Fender Player Telecaster. Studio version, Siamese Dream (1993)

Original rig

1984 Marshall JCM 800 ('soul head') + Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi fuzz + 1957 reissue Fender Stratocaster, tracked through 4x12 Marshall cabinet

Massive wall-of-fuzz saturation with scooped mids, creamy sustain, and aggressive attack — the definitive 90s alternative fuzz tone

Amp settings — Fender Frontman 15G

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	5
Treble	6
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01EHX Big Muff Pi

This is your primary gain source — amp stays clean

Volume 7 · Tone 4 · Sustain 8

Why these settings

The Frontman 15G has no mid or presence control and cannot produce high-gain on its own — keep amp gain low (2) so the Big Muff drives the tone cleanly without stacking into mud. Corgan's original used a cranked JCM 800 with a Big Muff; your Muff into a clean solid-state platform gets the fuzz character but loses some tube compression. Rolling tone knob to 7 on your Tele tames the bridge pickup's brightness to approach his Strat's warmer attack.

PRO TIPCorgan layered multiple fuzz tracks panned hard left/right with slight timing differences — for the full 'wall of sound,' double-track the riff and pan each take 80% opposite; a single guitar will always sound thinner than the record.

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