The Kill (Bury Me) amp settings — Boss Katana Air
The Thirty Seconds to Mars guitar tone for “The Kill (Bury Me)”, dialed in for a Boss Katana Air with a Gretsch G5220 Electromatic. Studio version, A Beautiful Lie (2005) - Main heavy chorus/riff tone
Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier (Modern High Gain channel) blended with Vox AC30, Gibson Les Paul Custom, Fulltone OCD, Line 6 DL4
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 7 |
| Bass | 6 |
| Mid | 5 |
| Treble | 7 |
| Reverb | 2 |
| Master | 5 |
The Katana-Air physically lacks a presence control, so high-end cut is achieved by pushing treble to 7 while relying on the Brown model's modern high-gain voicing to mimic the Dual Rectifier. Your Gretsch Broad'Tron pickups have a bit more top-end chime and less low-mid thickness than a Gibson Les Paul, so bass is nudged up to 6 to maintain the track's heavy wall-of-sound thump. For the clean, delay-heavy verse sections, simply roll the guitar volume down to 6 or switch to the Clean amp type with an onboard delay active.
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