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Layla amp settings — Marshall MG50GFX

The Derek & The Dominos guitar tone for “Layla”, dialed in for a Marshall MG50GFX with a Harley Benton SC-Custom II. Studio version, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970), Criteria Studios Miami

Original rig

1956 Fender Stratocaster ('Brownie') through cranked Fender Champ (5W, dimed), bridge+middle pickup position

Raw, biting, urgent overdrive with prominent upper-mids and natural compression from a small tube amp pushed to its limits

Amp settings — Marshall MG50GFX

CHANNELOD1 (Crunch)BOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	2
Mid	7
Treble	8
Presence	6
Reverb	0
Master	5

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Guitar

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Why these settings

Original was a cranked 5W Fender Champ with Strat single coils — scooped clean amp pushed into natural breakup. Your MG50GFX is solid-state Marshall-voiced (mid-forward), so I've cut bass hard to 2 (matching Clapton's 'bass all the way down') and boosted mids to 7 to replicate the honky, biting quality. Your SC-Custom II has humbuckers vs Clapton's single coils, so treble is pulled back to 8 instead of 10 to avoid harshness, and gain is set to 7 on OD1 to get that saturated-but-not-modern crunch.

PRO TIPClapton's attack on Layla is aggressive and slightly behind the beat — dig in hard with your pick angled toward the bridge, and let notes sustain into feedback by holding the guitar close to the amp speaker.

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