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Wicked Game amp settings — Positive Grid Spark 40

The Chris Isaak guitar tone for “Wicked Game”, dialed in for a Positive Grid Spark 40 with a Harley Benton Fusion-III HH. Studio version, Heart Shaped World (1989) — iconic clean lead guitar by James Calvin Wilsey

Original rig

1962 Fender Stratocaster Reissue (neck pickup) into 1964 Fender Deluxe / Silverface Twin Reverb, Roland SDE-3000 delay, TC Electronic 2290, and Eventide H3000 Rich Chorus

Pristine, atmospheric clean with lush spring reverb, subtle ambient delay, and glassy top-end twang

Amp settings — Positive Grid Spark 40

CHANNELBlack Duo (Fender Twin Reverb model)BRIGHTonBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	5
Mid	4
Treble	7
Reverb	8
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE9 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Spark Mod Block: Chorus (Stereo Chorus)

Recreates the subtle Eventide H3000 chorus shimmer

Depth 4 · Rate 3 · Level 5

02Spark Delay Block: Vintage Delay

Set delay time to roughly 350-400ms to match the Roland SDE-3000 spatial ambience

Time 5 · Feedback 3 · Level 4

Why these settings

The Spark's Black Duo model captures the wide clean headroom of Wilsey's Fender Twin/Deluxe setup. Because your Harley Benton has humbuckers instead of vintage single-coils, keep the bass tight at 5 and push treble to 7 with the bright switch engaged to restore single-coil chime. Split your neck humbucker if your Fusion-III coil-tap is available for even closer Strat bite.

PRO TIPUse a gentle whammy bar vibrato at the tail of each plucked note or chord, letting the notes dip and float into the heavy reverb trail exactly like Wilsey's expressive Strat tremolo technique.

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