Running Away amp settings — Marshall Code 50
The Three Days Grace guitar tone for “Running Away”, dialed in for a Marshall Code 50 with a Gibson Les Paul Modern. Studio version, One-X (2006 bonus track)
Diezel VH4 & Marshall JCM800 + Ibanez SZ / PRS guitars (Adam Gontier & Barry Stock)
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 7 |
| Bass | 7 |
| Mid | 6 |
| Treble | 6 |
| Presence | 6 |
| Reverb | 1 |
| Master | 5 |
01Boss DS-1 Distortion
Used as a tight front-end drive boost to tighten low-end tracking into the high-gain preamp
The Code 50 is a digital modeling amp, so we select the 'OD American' preamp block to emulate the cascading saturation and punch of Howard Benson's Diezel/Mesa/Marshall wall of sound. The DS-1 is set as a clean/tightening boost with low distortion and high level, sharpening the attack on your Les Paul Modern's bridge humbucker. Clean verse: roll guitar volume down to 6 and bypass the DS-1.
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