Iron Man amp settings — Squier Frontman 10g

The Black Sabbath guitar tone for “Iron Man”, dialed in for a Squier Frontman 10g with a Squier Classic Vibe 60s Stratocaster. Studio version, Paranoid album (1970)

The Frontman 10G is a small solid-state practice amp with only gain, bass, treble, and volume controls — no mid, presence, or reverb knobs exist on this amp. The original tone came from a cranked Laney with a Rangemaster treble booster pushing P90 humbuckers. Your Strat's single coils are brighter and lower output, so I rolled treble back to 5 to avoid ice-pick highs and pushed bass to 6 to compensate for the thinner single-coil low end. Tone knob at 6 darkens the bridge pickup to approximate the fatter P90 midrange honk. The amp's small speaker and limited gain stage cannot produce the thick saturation of the original — this is the closest honest match without a distortion pedal.

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