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Rooster amp settings — Marshall Valvestate 8080

The Alice in Chains guitar tone for “Rooster”, dialed in for a Marshall Valvestate 8080 with a DIA Les Paul Lawsuit Era. Studio version, Dirt (1992) — clean intro and verse arpeggio

Original rig

G&L Rampage (JB humbucker) into EHX Small Stone phaser, Boss flanger, Roland CE-1 chorus, and solid-state/hybrid Vox Super Beatle amp

Dark, watery, chorus-flange modulated clean tone with sustained low-mid warmth

Amp settings — Marshall Valvestate 8080

CHANNELNormal (Clean)BRIGHToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	3
Bass	6
Mid	5
Treble	5
Reverb	3
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Behringer CS100 Compressor Sustainer

Evens out the picking attack across the fingerpicked/arpeggiated intro

Level 7 · Tone 5 · Attack 6 · Sustain 5

02Rocktek FLR-01 Flanger

Set for a slow, deep sweep to emulate the studio phase/flange movement

Speed 3 · Width 6 · Regen 4

03Artec Chorus CHR3

Adds the wide, watery CE-1 texture stacked with the flanger

Speed 4 · Depth 6

04Ibanez Soundtank DL5 Digital Delay

Subtle quarter-note trail for ambient space

Level 3 · Repeat 3 · Time 4

Why these settings

The Valvestate 8080's Normal clean channel provides the clean headroom needed to reproduce Dave Jerden's solid-state Vox Super Beatle studio routing. Keep the bright switch off and roll the Les Paul bridge pickup tone knob to 8 to avoid brittle highs while retaining string separation. Heavy distorted chorus: switch the 8080 to Boost Channel OD2 with Contour at 7 and bypass the modulation pedals.

PRO TIPLet the open B and high E strings ring out continuously while fretting the low bass movements; pick closer to the neck rather than the bridge saddles to get Cantrell's rounded, vocal arpeggio attack.

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