Movie amp settings — Boss Katana 50 MkII

The Tom Misch guitar tone for “Movie”, dialed in for a Boss Katana 50 MkII with a Ibanez GIO GRG170DX. Studio version, Geography album (2018)

Original rig

Fender-style clean amp, semi-hollow or Stratocaster-type guitar, Moog Moogerfooger MF-101 lowpass filter for the envelope sweep effect

Warm, clean neo-soul fingerstyle with subtle envelope filter sweep, jazzy and laid-back with rolled-off highs

Amp settings — Boss Katana 50 MkII

CHANNELClean amp typeBRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	6
Mid	5
Treble	4
Presence	3
Reverb	2
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE5 VOLUME8

Signal chain

01Auto-Wah (Katana built-in effect)

Use Katana's T-Wah or Auto-Wah in Boss Tone Studio set to 'LPF' (lowpass filter) mode with slow sensitivity to approximate the Moogerfooger MF-101 envelope filter. Subtle setting—this is not a funky quack, it's a gentle vowel sweep.

Sens 4 · Freq 3 · Peak 5 · Level 6

Why these settings

Your GRG170DX has humbuckers which are darker and hotter than Misch's likely single-coil setup, so I dropped treble to 4 and presence to 3 to avoid harshness. The neck humbucker with tone rolled to 5 approximates his warm, round attack. The Katana Clean channel is the right tool here—no dirt needed.

PRO TIPTom Misch fingerpicks this entire track with his thumb and fingers, not a pick—this is 70% of his tone. Plant your palm lightly near the bridge for a slightly muted, pillowy attack, and use the fleshy part of your fingertips rather than nails for maximum warmth.

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