This Old Dog Guitar Tone - Amp Settings for Every Track
Translate any This Old Dog track to your gear
Median knob positions across the 12 guitar tracks we've broken down from this record, on the amps they were tracked with. A starting point for the album's sound; pick a track below for its exact recipe.
- Gain
- 2.5
- Bass
- 5
- Mid
- 6
- Treble
- 6
- Presence
- 5
- Volume
- 5.5
What Mac DeMarco Used on This Old Dog
Every This Old Dog Tone You Can Dial In
- Moonlight on the RiverFender Champion 40
- For the First Time
- Watching Him Fade Away
- Still Beating
- Baby You're Out
- On the Level
- Dreams from Yesterday
- My Old Man
- A Wolf Who Wears Sheeps Clothes
- One Another
- This Old Dog
- One More Love Song
12 of this record's tracks are broken down so far. Most popular first.
Common Questions About the This Old Dog Tone
What amp was This Old Dog recorded with?
Every one of the This Old Dog tracks in our catalog was tracked on a Fender Champion 40. ToneMirror rewrites those settings for whatever amp you own - a different EQ curve and gain structure landing on the same recorded sound.
What guitar was used on This Old Dog?
The Teisco Del Rey Spectrum 5 appears on the most This Old Dog tracks in our catalog. You don't need one - the settings are calibrated to the recorded tone, so they translate to the guitar you already have.
What amp settings do I need for the This Old Dog sound?
Across the 12 guitar tracks from This Old Dog we've catalogued, the median is gain 2.5 (range 2–2.5), with bass 5, mid 6, treble 6 on a 0–10 scale. That's the record's window rather than any one song's recipe - pick a track above for the exact knob positions it was recorded with.
What pedals are on This Old Dog?
The Boss CE-2 Chorus shows up on the most tracks here, alongside the Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man. Every track breakdown lists that song's full signal chain in order, and the match engine substitutes what you own for what you don't.
How many This Old Dog songs can I dial in here?
ToneMirror has 12 tracks from This Old Dog broken down, including "Moonlight on the River" and "For the First Time". Each carries the original amp settings, pickup position, tuning, and pedal chain, plus a per-rig adaptation for your own gear.