🎸 Pop-Punk · 2010s

That's What You Get (Riff · Distorted) — Guitar Tone

by Paramore · riff

The That's What You Get by Paramore guitar tone is built on a Marshall JCM2000, dialed in at gain 6/10, bass 5, mid 6, treble 6.5, presence 6 (community-researched baseline). Full breakdown below — then adapt every knob to your exact guitar and amp, free.

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Amp settings (0–10)

6
GAIN
5
BASS
6
MID
6.5
TREBLE
6
PRESENCE
1.5
REVERB

Community-researched baseline. Your rig is different — GuitarToneAdapt re-dials every knob for your specific guitar, amp and pickups.

Original gear

Amp: Marshall JCM2000 (heavier parts: Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier)

Pickups

bridge humbucker

Effects / signal chain

overdrive, distortion, delay

Tone character

thick overdrive, present mids, punchy, pop-punk crunch

Recording context

studio

How it’s played

mid-rich overdrive distortion. This shapes how hard the amp is pushed and where the EQ sits for the That's What You Get sound.

What makes the That's What You Get part tricky

tight rhythm strumming, dynamic clean-to-driven shifts. GuitarToneAdapt gets the tone right so you can focus on the playing.

Note: That's What You Get is peak Riot!-era crunch — let the Blues Driver thicken the rhythm and keep mids up for that punchy attack., Paramore's guitar sound (Josh Farro / Taylor York) is a thick, mid-rich OVERDRIVEN pop-punk/emo tone built on a Marshall JCM2000 (and a Mesa Dual Rectifier for heavier parts), pushed by a Boss Blues Driver as an always-on drive, with an MXR Distortion III stacked for lead boosts and a Boss Giga Delay for ambience. Guitars are humbucker Telecaster Deluxe and Les Paul (Farro), Jagmaster / Thinline Tele (York)., No official per-song amp numbers were published, so these knob values are a community-researched translation of that documented JCM2000-plus-Blues-Driver setup, voiced to the era of the song. Treat them as an honest STARTING POINT, not a recall sheet — the Blues-Driver-into-crunch character matters more than the exact numbers., Tip: Paramore's tone is punchy and present, not scooped — keep the mids up around 6 and let the overdrive pedal, not the amp gain, do the saturating.

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Settings are community-researched estimates, not official. GuitarToneAdapt adapts them to your gear. guitartoneadapt.com