Heaven amp settings — Marshall Origin 50C

The Bryan Adams guitar tone for “Heaven”, dialed in for a Marshall Origin 50C with a Gibson Les Paul Standard 60s. Studio version, Reckless (1984) — signature melodic guitar solo & fills

Original rig

1976 Fender Stratocaster ('The Beast') into cranked vintage Marshall Super Lead / JCM800, Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer, Bob Clearmountain studio plate/hall reverb & delay

Sustaining, melodic 80s arena rock lead tone with smooth upper-mid push and ambient studio reverb/delay

Amp settings — Marshall Origin 50C

CHANNELSingle channel (Tilt at 6)BOOSTon

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE9 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive

Used as a gain boost pushing the Marshall front-end for singing sustain

Level 8 · Tone 5 · Drive 4

02Digital / Analog Delay (e.g. Boss DD-3 or DD-8)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned (FX loop, set to ~380ms quarter-note delay)

E.Level 4 · F.Back 4 · D.Time 5

Why these settings

Keith Scott played a single-coil Strat into a cranked Plexi, so on your Les Paul humbuckers, rolling the guitar tone back to 9 and setting the SD-1 Tone to 5 prevents excessive harshness while retaining bite. The Marshall Origin 50C has lower native gain than a JCM800, so running the pull-boost engaged with the SD-1 pushing the front end delivers the required compression and singing sustain. To fully replicate the Power Station mix, add a delay pedal in the FX loop.

PRO TIPPick with the edge of a heavy pick right above the bridge pickup and dig in with deliberate, wide vibrato — Keith Scott's vocal-like sustain relies heavily on expressive left-hand finger vibrato holding each note against the amp's feedback threshold.

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