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Quiet amp settings — Orange Crush 35RT

The The Smashing Pumpkins guitar tone for “Quiet”, dialed in for a Orange Crush 35RT with a Epiphone Slash Les Paul Standard. Studio version, Siamese Dream (1993)

Original rig

Marshall JCM 800 (1984 'soul head') into Mesa/Boogie power section, 1957 reissue Fender Stratocaster, EHX Big Muff Pi, multiple layered guitar tracks

Massive wall-of-sound distortion with searing sustain, scooped mids, and aggressive high-gain saturation
Amp settings — Orange Crush 35RT
CHANNELCleanBOOSToff
GAIN 3 BASS 6 MID 4 TREBLE 6 REVERB 2 MASTER 5
KnobSetting (0–10)
Gain3
Bass6
Mid4
Treble6
Reverb2
Master5
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Guitar
PICKUPbridge TONE7 VOLUME10
Signal chain

01EHX Big Muff Pi

Primary gain source - amp must stay clean to avoid mud

Volume 7 · Tone 4 · Sustain 8
Why these settings

Corgan's Siamese Dream tone stacks Big Muff into a Marshall pushed by Mesa power section for massive saturation. Your Crush 35RT cannot replicate that amp saturation, so the Big Muff becomes your sole gain source with the amp on Clean channel at low gain to stay defined. Orange amps are naturally warm with thick low-mids, so bass is moderate and mids scooped slightly to approximate the wall-of-fuzz character. Treble at 6 compensates for your Les Paul's darker humbuckers versus Corgan's brighter Strat single coils.

PRO TIPCorgan's tone on Siamese Dream came from layering 40+ guitar tracks - live, use your neck pickup rolled to tone 5 for the verse clean sections, then kick in the Big Muff and switch to bridge for the explosive chorus to mimic that dynamic shift.

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