I Only Wanna Be With You amp settings — Vox Pathfinder 10
The Volbeat guitar tone for “I Only Wanna Be With You”, dialed in for a Vox Pathfinder 10 with a Ibanez GRX70QA-TKS GIO. Studio version, The Strength/The Sound/The Songs (2005)
Gibson SG GT (JB bridge humbucker) → Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer → Marshall JCM800/Laney VH100R
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 10 |
| Bass | 4 |
| Mid | 0 |
| Treble | 6 |
| Presence | 0 |
| Reverb | 0 |
| Master | 7 |
01Tube Screamer style OD (TS9/TS808)
RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Essential for this tone. A Behringer TO800 ($25) or Joyo Vintage Overdrive ($30) gets you 90% there. Without this pedal, the Pathfinder cannot produce the tight, saturated crunch of the original.
The Vox Pathfinder 10 is a solid-state practice amp with limited gain and no mid control — it cannot replicate a cranked Marshall JCM800's saturated tube breakup. Gain is maxed because the Pathfinder's overdrive stage is weak compared to a tube amp; bass is dropped to 4 (vs Marshall's typical 5-6) because the Pathfinder gets muddy fast at volume; treble is raised to 6 to compensate for the amp's darker solid-state voicing. The recording is bone-dry, so reverb stays at 0. A Tube Screamer is non-negotiable for this tone — it provides the mid-hump and compression that defines Volbeat's crunch.
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