Iron Man amp settings — Orange Crush 20

The Black Sabbath guitar tone for “Iron Man”, dialed in for a Orange Crush 20 with a Squier Sonic Stratocaster. Studio version, Paranoid (1970) - Main heavy riff

Original rig

1965 Gibson SG Special (P90 bridge pickup) into modified Dallas-Arbiter Rangemaster Treble Booster into 100W Laney Supergroup MK 1 head and 4x12 cab

Thick, mid-heavy, boxy British tube crunch pushed into fuzzy overdrive

Amp settings — Orange Crush 20

CHANNELDirty

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Dallas-Arbiter Rangemaster Treble Booster (or clone)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned; when added, run into the dirty channel to recreate Iommi's pushed midrange bark

Boost 7

Why these settings

The Orange Crush 20 naturally shares British midrange authority with Iommi's Laney, but your thin Strat single-coil requires rolling the guitar tone knob down to 7 to replicate the fat low-mid punch of his P90s. We push the amp's Dirty channel gain to 8 so you get adequate grit and saturation without an external boost pedal. Treble is pulled back to 5 to tame harsh single-coil glassiness while keeping the mids pushed to 7 for that boxy sabbath roar.

PRO TIPTony Iommi played with extremely light gauge strings (.008s tuned standard for this record) and prosthetic plastic fingertips, giving the notes a distinct rounded attack; pick closer to the neck rather than directly over the bridge to soften the Stratocaster's sharp pick attack.

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