You Shook Me All Night Long amp settings — Hughes & Kettner GrandMeister Deluxe 40
The AC/DC guitar tone for “You Shook Me All Night Long”, dialed in for a Hughes & Kettner GrandMeister Deluxe 40 with a Ibanez GIO GRG170DX. Studio version, Back in Black (1980)
Gibson SG Standard (bridge PAF humbucker) → Marshall 1959SLP Plexi Super Lead (100W, cranked)
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 6 |
| Bass | 5 |
| Mid | 4 |
| Treble | 7 |
| Presence | 7 |
| Reverb | 0 |
| Master | 6 |
Your GRG170DX has hotter ceramic humbuckers vs the original PAF-style pickups, so I dropped mid from 6 to 4 (the H&K already has forward mids vs the Plexi's naturally scooped stack) and pushed treble/presence +1 each to recover the Plexi's cutting top-end. The Boost engaged compensates for the lower output of a cranked non-master-volume Plexi — your H&K's Lead channel with Boost approximates that power-section saturation at manageable volume.
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