Heaven amp settings — Boss Katana 100 MkII
The Bryan Adams guitar tone for “Heaven”, dialed in for a Boss Katana 100 MkII with a Cort M600. Studio version, Reckless (1984) — main lead guitar tone played by Keith Scott
1976 Fender Stratocaster ('The Beast') into cranked vintage Marshall Super Lead / JCM800, Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer, studio plate reverb & analog delay
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 6 |
| Bass | 5 |
| Mid | 7 |
| Treble | 6 |
| Presence | 5 |
| Reverb | 6 |
| Master | 5 |
01Katana Built-in Booster (Tube Screamer / T-Scream Model)
Engage onboard yellow Booster
02Katana Built-in Delay (Digital / Analog Delay)
Set to roughly 380ms for 80s arena space
The Katana 100 MkII on the Lead voice paired with its onboard TS-style boost replicates Keith Scott's cranked Marshall and TS9 front-end drive without requiring external pedals. Because the Cort M600 has humbuckers instead of Scott's vintage Strat single-coils, rolling the guitar's tone knob back to 8 and keeping amp gain at 6 prevents low-end mud while preserving the singing upper-mid vocal sustain. The Katana 100's presence control is set to 5 to deliver bite without the harsh top-end fizz of high-gain digital models.
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