Dream Warriors amp settings — Neural DSP Quad Cortex
The Dokken guitar tone for “Dream Warriors”, dialed in for a Neural DSP Quad Cortex with a Charvel San Dimas. Studio version, Back for the Attack (1987) / A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 (Main Riff)
ESP Custom / Tiger Charvel with Seymour Duncan Distortion into modded Marshall Super Lead (SIR #39 / Tim Caswell style mod) blended with Randall RG100ES, boosted with Boss OD-1 / TS808 and subtle studio chorus/delay
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 7 |
| Bass | 6 |
| Mid | 7 |
| Treble | 7 |
| Presence | 6 |
| Reverb | 2 |
| Master | 7 |
01Chief OD1 (Boss OD-1 model)
Tight boost in front of the amp model
02Vintage Chorus
Post-amp block in stereo path for classic Lynch dimension
03Digital Delay
Post-amp block set to ~380ms subtle tape/digital echo
George Lynch's tone relies on a hot-rodded British amp pushed by a tight front-end overdrive to slice through the mix without low-end flub. On the Quad Cortex, running the Chief OD1 block with low drive and high level into the Brit 800 or Freeman model perfectly recreates this cascaded preamp saturation. Keep the mids pushed to 7 to match Lynch's signature aggressive harmonic growl. Clean intro/verse: switch scene to Brit Clean model with the Vintage Chorus mix up to 5.
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