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Every Breath You Take (Alternate Mix) Guitar Tone Settings
The Police · 1980s · rock
studio
Original Recording
Guitar
Fender Telecaster (custom, 1961, with humbucker in neck and single-coil in bridge)
Pickups
Bridge single-coil (Fender Telecaster bridge pickup), Neck humbucker (Gibson PAF-style, but riff is bridge)
Amp
Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus
Pickup Position
Bridge pickup (Telecaster single-coil)
Studio recording, 1982-1983. Andy Summers used his custom Telecaster with a bridge single-coil into a Roland JC-120 for the clean, chorus-laden riff. Effects were mostly pedals, not amp-based. Alternate Mix uses the same core setup as the original studio version.
Amp Settings
Mids6.5
Bass5.5
Gain0
Reverb3
Treble7.5
Presence5
Effects Chain
- MXR Dyna Comp · compression
- Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble (or Roland JC-120 built-in chorus) · chorus
- Maestro Echoplex EP-3 · delay
Fender Telecaster (bridge single-coil) → MXR Dyna Comp → Boss CE-1 Chorus (or JC-120 chorus) → Maestro Echoplex EP-3 → Roland JC-120 (with spring reverb)
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Tone Character
- crystal-clear and bright
- lush, swirling chorus modulation
- tight and percussive attack
- shimmering top end
- compressed and even dynamics
- articulate chord voicings
- studio-polished clarity
- minimal breakup, pure clean
- spangly, alive sound
- signature 1980s clean chorus