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Sunshine of your love amp settings — Boss Katana 100 MkII

The Cream guitar tone for “Sunshine of your love”, dialed in for a Boss Katana 100 MkII with a Squier Contemporary Stratocaster. Studio version, Disraeli Gears (1967), Atlantic Studios

Original rig

1964 Gibson SG Standard ('The Fool') with humbuckers, neck pickup, tone rolled off → 1966 Marshall JTM45/100 head into Marshall 1960B 4x12, all controls at 10

Fat, vocal, honking midrange with no treble bite — the classic 'woman tone'

Amp settings — Boss Katana 100 MkII

CHANNELBrown amp typeBRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	6
Mid	10
Treble	4
Presence	3
Reverb	0
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE0 VOLUME10

Why these settings

Your Strat's single coils are brighter and lower output than Clapton's SG humbuckers, so I dropped treble from 10 to 4 and pushed mids to max to compensate for the Strat's naturally scooped voicing. The Katana's Brown channel emulates the JTM45's breakup character. The tone knob at 0 is non-negotiable — that's the entire woman tone secret.

PRO TIPPick closer to the neck with your thumb or the fleshy part of your pick hand to further darken the attack and get that round, singing sustain Clapton achieved — picking near the bridge will undo everything the rolled-off tone knob is doing.

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