Paranoid amp settings — Orange Crush pro 60

The Black sabath guitar tone for “Paranoid”, dialed in for a Orange Crush pro 60 with a Yamaha Revstar RSS20. Studio version, Paranoid album (1970)

Original rig

Gibson SG Standard → Dallas Rangemaster treble booster → Laney LA100BL with presence/mid/treble maxed, bass at 0

Aggressive, mid-forward British crunch with treble bite and tight low-end — the Rangemaster adds compressed upper-mid snarl

Amp settings — Orange Crush pro 60

CHANNELDirty channel

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	3
Mid	8
Treble	7
Reverb	0
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Treble Booster or TS-style Overdrive (e.g., TC Electronic Spark Booster, Ibanez TS9, or EHX Soul Food)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. The Rangemaster is essential to Iommi's tone on this record; without it you lose the compressed upper-mid bite. A treble booster clone (like the BSM RM or TC Spark set bright) is ideal, but a TS9 with low drive and high tone gets you 75% there. Run into the amp's dirty channel.

Level/Volume 7 · Tone/Treble 8 · Gain/Drive 3

Why these settings

The Orange Crush Pro is warmer and more compressed in the low-mids than Iommi's Laney, so bass is dropped from his 0 to a still-conservative 3 to prevent mud. Mid pushed to 8 (vs his maxed 10) because the Orange is already mid-forward. Treble at 7 compensates for the Orange's darker voicing vs the bright Laney. Without the Rangemaster booster, you will lack the signature compressed snarl — the amp alone cannot replicate it.

PRO TIPIommi's picking hand sits close to the bridge for a tight, percussive attack on the main riff. Dig in hard with downstrokes and let the pick scrape slightly across the strings — that aggressive pick attack is half the tone.

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