Earned It amp settings — Fender Mustang LT25
The The Weeknd guitar tone for “Earned It”, dialed in for a Fender Mustang LT25 with a Yamaha Pacifica 112V. Studio version, Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack / Beauty Behind the Madness (2014)
Fender/Gretsch hollowbody/Strat clean DI into vintage tube preamp / Fender Twin Reverb + subtle studio plate reverb and compression
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 3 |
| Bass | 6 |
| Mid | 5 |
| Treble | 4 |
| Reverb | 3 |
| Master | 5 |
01Compressor (Mustang onboard block)
Onboard Mustang stomp slot
02'65 Spring / Plate Reverb (Mustang onboard block)
Onboard Mustang FX slot
The studio track uses a warm, unhyped direct/Fender clean sound played with dynamic restraint. On the Mustang LT25, the '65 Twin Clean model provides the right clean headroom, but the LT25 treble is tamed to 4 and the Pacifica's tone knob is rolled back to 7 to smooth out the single-coil bite. Note that the Mustang LT25 has no physical presence control on its panel, so presence is omitted.
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