The Just Pretend by Bad Omens guitar tone is built on a Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier, dialed in at gain 7/10, bass 5, mid 5.5, treble 6.5, presence 6 (community-researched baseline). Full breakdown below — then adapt every knob to your exact guitar and amp, free.
🎛️ These settings are for the original rig — re-dial them for YOUR amp in 10 seconds. Free, no signup →Measured against the 28 metalcore tones in our researched catalog: Gain 7 sits right around the metalcore average (8.0); mids at 5.5 are right around average (5.4).
Amp: Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier (Neural DSP Archetype: Gojira studio / Kemper Triple Rectifier live)
Active humbuckers (EMG 81 / Fishman Fluence Modern) for the tight drop-tuned chorus; neck pickup for warm cleans
High-gain amp: Mesa Dual Rectifier / Neural DSP Archetype: Gojira (Kemper Triple Recto live) for the heavy chorus, Overdrive boost to tighten the low end, Boss NS-2 noise gate, Clean/ambient patch with reverb + delay + modulation for the verses
anthemic, clean-to-heavy dynamics, ambient cleans, tight drop chorus, emotional, high-gain
Modern metalcore, 2022; drop-tuned active guitar, clean/ambient verses into a boosted gated high-gain chorus
emotional, anthemic — soft cinematic verse building to a crushing, soaring chorus, mid, building tempo, huge — clean ambient verses to heavy drop chorus dynamics · high-gain distortion. This shapes how hard the amp is pushed and where the EQ sits for the Just Pretend sound.
3/5
More about emotive dynamics and clean-to-heavy tone switching than technical speed.
Set your amp to roughly: gain 7, bass 5, mid 5.5, treble 6.5, presence 6, reverb 3. These are community-researched baselines — GuitarToneAdapt re-dials them for your exact guitar and amp.
Original gear/effects: Amp: Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier (Neural DSP Archetype: Gojira studio / Kemper Triple Rectifier live); High-gain amp: Mesa Dual Rectifier / Neural DSP Archetype: Gojira (Kemper Triple Recto live) for the heavy chorus, Overdrive boost to tighten the low end, Boss NS-2 noise gate, Clean/ambient patch with reverb + delay + modulation for the verses.
Yes. Different guitars and amps need different knob positions to sound the same. GuitarToneAdapt models pickup output and wood brightness, then compensates so you match the record on your own rig.
Start with Active humbuckers (EMG 81 / Fishman Fluence Modern) for the tight drop-tuned chorus; neck pickup for warm cleans, the amp EQ above (gain 7, bass 5, mid 5.5, treble 6.5, presence 6, reverb 3), and High-gain amp: Mesa Dual Rectifier / Neural DSP Archetype: Gojira (Kemper Triple Recto live) for the heavy chorus, Overdrive boost to tighten the low end, Boss NS-2 noise gate, Clean/ambient patch with reverb + delay + modulation for the verses. Then let GuitarToneAdapt compensate for the guitar, amp and pedals you actually own so it sits like the record.
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