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Nutshell amp settings — Orange Crush 35RT

The Alice in chains guitar tone for “Nutshell”, dialed in for a Orange Crush 35RT with a Gibson Les Paul Classic. Studio cut, Jar of Flies (1994) — Electric solo tone

Original rig

G&L Rampage (Seymour Duncan JB) into Bogner Fish Preamp (Brown/Shark channel) / Marshall JCM800, Marshall 1960B 4x12 cab

Warm, singing mid-forward high-gain lead with smooth sustain and ambient plate/hall reverb

Amp settings — Orange Crush 35RT

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Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	5
Mid	6
Treble	5
Reverb	0
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Pod Go (Amp: Brit 2204 / JCM800)

Amp block serving as the primary high-gain preamp tone into clean amp input

Drive 7 · Bass 5 · Mid 7 · Treble 6 · Presence 5 · Ch Vol 7

02Pod Go (Screamer / TS OD block)

Clean boost in front of the amp model to tighten low-end and boost sustain

Gain 1 · Tone 6 · Level 8

03Pod Go (Plate Reverb block)

Provides the lush studio ambience heard on the solo

Decay 6 · Predelay 3 · Tone 5 · Mix 4

Why these settings

The Orange Crush 35RT Clean channel acts as a neutral platform with amp gain dropped to 2 to prevent muddy double-saturation with the Pod Go's high-gain modeling. The Crush 35RT naturally packs thick low-mids and lacks a physical presence knob, so treble is held neutral at 5 while the Pod Go's JCM800 block carries the singing Bogner/Marshall lead bite. Rolling your Les Paul tone knob to 8 rounds off harsh pickup edge to emulate Jerry Cantrell's darker, vocal lead attack.

PRO TIPDig in with heavy pick attack right over the bridge pickup, and roll your guitar tone knob down slightly to 7 or 8 to round off pickup bite for Cantrell's vocal, singing sustain without harsh fret sizzle.

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