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Bleed the freak amp settings — Roland Cube 30 cosm

The Alice in chains guitar tone for “Bleed the freak”, dialed in for a Roland Cube 30 cosm with a Behringer iAxe 393. Studio version, Facelift (1990)

Original rig

1985 G&L Rampage with Seymour Duncan JB (bridge humbucker) → Bogner-modified Marshall JCM800 4010 ('The Snorkler') → Marshall 4×12 Greenback cab. No effects. Recording chain: SM57 → Neve 1073 → Teletronix LA-2A.

Raw, mid-heavy crunch with harmonic saturation; aggressive but not excessively gainy; thick low-mids with controlled high-end bite

Amp settings — Roland Cube 30 cosm

CHANNELR-FIER (Rectifier model) or BRIT COMBO (JC-120 lacks gain; avoid CLEAN/JC CLEAN)BRIGHToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	5
Mid	8
Treble	5
Presence	4
Reverb	0
Master	6

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Guitar

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Why these settings

The Roland Cube's R-FIER model approximates the saturated Bogner/Rectifier character better than the BRIT COMBO for this tone. Mids pushed to 8 to compensate for the Cube's inherent mid-scoop on high-gain models — Cantrell's tone is notably mid-forward. Treble dropped to 5 because your Behringer's ceramic humbucker is brighter and harsher than Cantrell's Seymour Duncan JB in an all-maple body. Tone knob at 7 tames the ice-pick frequencies your guitar adds.

PRO TIPCantrell's attack on this track is deliberate and heavy — plant your pick firmly into the strings with consistent palm-mute pressure rather than light strumming. The weight comes from pick attack, not gain. Tune to Eb standard if possible; standard tuning will sound thinner on the low chugs.

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