Paranoid amp settings — Fender Mustang LT25

The Black Sabbath guitar tone for “Paranoid”, dialed in for a Fender Mustang LT25 with a Jackson JS22 Dinky. Studio version, Paranoid (1970) — main riff & rhythm

Original rig

1965 Gibson SG Special (P-90s) into modified Dallas Rangemaster treble booster into Laney Supergroup LA100BL cranked into Laney 4x12 cab

Dry, biting, midrange-heavy classic proto-metal crunch with tight clipped low-end

Amp settings — Fender Mustang LT25

CHANNEL70S ROCK amp model

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	4
Mid	8
Treble	7
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01OVERDRIVE

Used as a clean treble boost in front of the amp model to emulate Tony Iommi's Dallas Rangemaster

Drive 2 · Tone 8 · Level 8

Why these settings

The 70S ROCK model captures the cranked British EL34 power-section crunch of Iommi's Laney Supergroup. To emulate his modified Dallas Rangemaster treble booster, the onboard OVERDRIVE is placed in front with low drive, high tone, and high level to push upper-mid bite and shave flubby low end. Because your Jackson JS22 ceramic humbuckers have higher output and darker response than vintage P-90s, the bass is trimmed to 4 and mids pushed to 8 via the encoder to keep the iconic E-to-D power chords tight and articulate.

PRO TIPHit the main riff with aggressive downstrokes close to the bridge saddles; keeping your picking hand rigid accentuates the sharp, clipped attack Iommi achieved with his custom prosthetic plastic fingertips.

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