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The Adults Are Talking amp settings — Marshall MG30CFX

The The Strokes guitar tone for “The Adults Are Talking”, dialed in for a Marshall MG30CFX with a Stanburry Stratocaster. Studio version, The New Abnormal (2020) — Albert Hammond Jr. rhythm guitar tone

Original rig

Fender Stratocaster into Fender Hot Rod DeVille / Super-Sonic with MXR Micro Amp boost

Punchy, dynamic edge-of-breakup single-coil rhythm with crisp upper-mid attack and tight low end

Amp settings — Marshall MG30CFX

CHANNELCrunchBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	4
Bass	4
Mid	6
Treble	7
Reverb	2
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Why these settings

The MG30CFX lacks a presence control (set to null) and has a naturally punchy solid-state midrange. We use the Crunch channel with gain kept low at 4 to emulate the clean tube amp breakup of Hammond Jr.'s Fender DeVille, trimming bass to 4 to prevent low-end mud on rapid sixteenth-note patterns.

PRO TIPPick close to the bridge with a medium-thin pick and light palm-muting dynamics to get the sharp, mechanical percussive snap defining the intro riff.

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