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Post subject: What settings should I use for my frontman 25R amp?
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 9:39 pm
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I am a new guitarist and just bought a Jay Turser guitar (not sure what model) and a Fender Frontman 25R amp. My favorite band is Green Day and I want my guitar to sound the same as theirs (early songs from 91-97). Right now it sounds like AC/DC or Black Sabbath and I dont want that. What settings do I need to use or what do I need to buy to get this sound?


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Post subject: Re: What settings should I use for my frontman 25R amp?
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 11:59 pm
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Check out Green Day Authority.

http://www.greendayauthority.com/band/equipment.php

What works for me on the songs I like doing like Basket Case and Brain Stew is a humbucker, crunchy gain, and a noise gate (Brain Stew, you can hear it click in), a gain gate for Basket Case and for other songs, no reverb on the songs I fiddled with.

Based on what I am hearing, he uses different settings on his amps, different amps, different guitars, and there's stuff going on after his signal too.

If you've got single coils, a quick fix is an Electro Harmonix Hum Debugger, adjust the treble and mid-range down, mid-range more, boost or bury the bass if you need to!

If you can't get good crunch from the Frontman, get a crunch pedal and use it with low or no gain on the amp and back-off the tone/mids on the pedal.

Even with a humbucker, you may still need a hum debugger depending upon your how clean the electrical is on your guitar and where you are playing when you add some real crunch.

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