King Krule Amp Settings & Guitar Tone

Out Getting Ribs (2013)

Fender Standard Telecaster (Mexican / 'MIM'), Arctic White finish, circa late-2000s production — identified as 'Mexican Telecaster' in the published account of Marshall's East Dulwich home demos and photographed on stage repeatedly through the Zoo Kid / early King Krule era (Letterman 2013, Field Day 2013). The often-cited vintage 1960s Fender Jaguar was bought later on a Japan tour AFTER 6 Feet Beneath the Moon and is NOT the guitar on this recording. → Vox Valvetronix AD100VT (100W modeling combo, 2x12) — the only amp physically documented in his bedroom recording environment via The Guardian photo of his home studio. Clean amp model selected, likely one of the Fender 'Black 2x12' or Tweed voicings in the Valvetronix model set.

A thin, bell-like clean Telecaster single-coil tone — bright enough that finger-on-wound-string squeaks are clearly audible — drowned in a long, murky, hall-leaning reverb tail that blurs the jazz-voiced chord edges into each other. It sounds exactly like what it is: a cheap white Tele close-mic'd in a small carpeted bedroom through a modeling combo with its internal spring reverb cranked, then wetted further at mix. There is no drive and no obvious modulation — the lo-fi aesthetic comes from the room, the mic and the sheer reverb quantity, not from any particular pedal. Washed-out, distant, and melancholic.