like a rollinng stone amp settings — Vox VT40X
The Bob dillan guitar tone for “like a rollinng stone”, dialed in for a Vox VT40X with a Fender American Ultra Telecaster. Studio version, Highway 61 Revisited (1965) — Mike Bloomfield on lead guitar
1954 Fender Telecaster → Fender Twin Reverb (clean/edge-of-breakup), no pedals — direct amp tone with studio compression
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 4 |
| Bass | 4 |
| Mid | 5 |
| Treble | 6 |
| Presence | 5 |
| Reverb | 2 |
| Master | 5 |
Your American Ultra Telecaster with the Noiseless pickups is slightly warmer than Bloomfield's vintage '54 Tele, so I pushed treble to 6 to recover that bite. The VT40X Tweed 4x10 model replicates the scooped Fender mids and clean headroom of the original Twin. Gain at 4 gives that pushed-clean, just-starting-to-compress feel without actual breakup.
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