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seasons amp settings — Tostar BTS3

The wave to earth guitar tone for “seasons”, dialed in for a Tostar BTS3 with a Tostar TST-320 ST. Studio recording, summer flows 0.02 EP (2020)

Original rig

Fender Stratocaster / Jazzmaster into Fender Twin Reverb / Deluxe Reverb (clean) with subtle compression, lush chorus, analog delay, and hall reverb

Lush, warm indie neo-soul clean with rich modulation, ambient reverb decay, and rounded top end
Amp settings — Tostar BTS3
CHANNELCleanBRIGHToffBOOSToff
GAIN 3 BASS 6 MID 5 TREBLE 5 REVERB 7 MASTER 6
KnobSetting (0–10)
Gain3
Bass6
Mid5
Treble5
Reverb7
Master6
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Guitar
PICKUPneck+middle TONE7 VOLUME9
Signal chain

01Analog Chorus

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned; essential for the signature shimmering Wave to Earth movement

Rate 4 · Depth 6

02Tape / Analog Delay

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned; adds rhythmic depth and spatial trails

Time 5 · Feedback 4 · Level 4
Why these settings

The Tostar BTS3 is an unrecognized practice amp, so controls are kept strictly to standard universal knobs with presence nulled. Because Daniel Kim's tone relies on a pristine Fender clean platform draped in chorus and ambient decay, the amp is kept clean at low gain with built-in reverb raised to 7. Rolling the guitar tone back slightly warms up the Strat-style single-coils to capture that mellow neo-soul warmth.

PRO TIPPlay with a light fingerstyle or hybrid-picking technique over the neck joint rather than using a hard pick strike to capture the soft, airy transient response heard on the record.

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