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Layla amp settings — Sonicake Pocket Master

The Derek & The Dominos guitar tone for “Layla”, dialed in for a Sonicake Pocket Master with a Squier Classic Vibe 60s Stratocaster. Studio version, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970) — iconic opening riff & main lead

Original rig

1956 Fender Stratocaster ('Brownie') into a cranked 1950s Fender Tweed Champ (5F1) / Fender Princeton

Cranked small-tweed tube compression with biting high-mids, singing sustain, and tight truncated bass

Amp settings — Sonicake Pocket Master

CHANNELTweed / US Vintage Clean Model + 1x8/1x10 Tweed Cab IRBRIGHToffBOOSTon

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	8
Bass	4
Mid	7
Treble	6
Reverb	2
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE9 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Onboard Overdrive Block (TS / Vintage OD)

Used as a mid-focused boost in front of the tweed model to simulate a dimed 5F1 small-speaker compression and sustain

Gain 3 · Tone 6 · Level 8

Why these settings

Clapton generated pure power-tube saturation by diming a tiny single-ended 5F1 Tweed Champ into an 8-inch speaker. On the Sonicake Pocket Master, select the Tweed model and stack a mild onboard overdrive block to recreate that blown-out, mid-pushed tweed breakup without the fizz of modern high-gain. Keep the bass rolled down to 4 to mirror the natural low-end truncation of the original small cabinet.

PRO TIPDig hard into the strings near the bridge with medium-heavy pick attack to get that unmistakable stinging, slightly boxy upper-mid chirp Clapton achieved with Brownie.

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