Iron Man amp settings — Fender Mustang Micro
The Black Sabbath guitar tone for “Iron Man”, dialed in for a Fender Mustang Micro with a Glarry Red stratocastor single coil pickups. Studio version, Paranoid (1970) - Main Riff
1965 Gibson SG Special (P-90 bridge pickup) into custom Dallas-Arbiter Rangemaster treble booster into Laney Supergroup LA 100 BL with Laney 4x12 cab (Celestion G12-25M speakers)
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 7 |
| Bass | 6 |
| Treble | 7 |
| Reverb | 0 |
| Master | 7 |
01Dallas-Arbiter Rangemaster Treble Booster (or Naga Viper)
RECOMMENDED — not currently owned; adds the signature Tony Iommi low-cut bite and drives the preamp into saturated fuzz-crunch
On the Mustang Micro, select the '70s British amp model and push gain to 7 to replicate the cranked Laney Supergroup's power amp saturation. Since your Glarry Strat has lower-output, brighter single coils compared to Tony Iommi's P-90s, roll the guitar tone knob back to 8 and keep the amp EQ adjusted with bass at 6 to fill out the low-mid thump. If you add an external treble booster later, run it into a cleaner Plexi setting to mimic the exact Dallas-Arbiter circuit push.
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