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I'm Full Riff Guitar Tone Settings — Wallows
Wallows · 2010s+ · rock
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Original Recording
Guitar
Rickenbacker 360 (black, 1996)
Pickups
Rickenbacker Hi-Gain single coils
Amp
Fender Hot Rod DeVille 212
Pickup Position
Bridge pickup
Studio recording, 2022 (Tell Me That It's Over era); both Braeden Lemasters and Dylan Minnette used Hot Rod DeVille 212s for core tones. Pedalboard details from interviews and pedalboard photos from this album cycle. No explicit evidence of alternate guitars or amps for this song's riff section.
Amp Settings
Mids6.5
Bass6
Gain4.5
Reverb3
Treble7
Presence6
Effects Chain
- R3D Kentaur · overdrive
- Chorus pedal (model unknown) · chorus
Rickenbacker 360 → R3D Kentaur → Chorus pedal → Fender Hot Rod DeVille 212 (spring reverb)
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Tone Character
- slightly gritty edge-of-breakup
- punchy and articulate attack
- clear note separation
- jangly top end
- tight low end
- present mids
- modulated shimmer
- indie rock clarity
- not heavily saturated
- dynamic response to picking
Sources
Tone Story / Why This Tone Works
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