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Hotel California amp settings — Sonicake Pocketmaster

The Eagles guitar tone for “Hotel California”, dialed in for a Sonicake Pocketmaster with a Cort X100. Studio version, Hotel California album (1976), recorded at Criteria Studios Miami

Original rig

1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard (PAF humbuckers) → Fender Tweed Deluxe 5E3 (narrow panel, ~1955, cranked) → Maestro Echoplex (tape delay)

Fat, singing lead tone with edge-of-breakup compression, prominent midrange, and slapback delay swell

Amp settings — Sonicake Pocketmaster

CHANNELAmp voice selector set to cleanest/American voicing if available

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	6
Bass	4
Mid	6
Treble	5
Presence	5
Reverb	0
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Delay (use Pocketmaster's onboard delay if available, or RECOMMENDED: any basic analog/tape-style delay pedal)

Echoplex-style slapback, ~300-350ms delay time, moderate repeats for the sustaining solo swell. Critical to the tone's spaciousness.

Time 4 · Feedback/Repeats 3 · Level/Mix 4

Why these settings

The Pocketmaster is a headphone/practice amp with limited headroom compared to a cranked tube Tweed. Push gain to 6 to simulate the Tweed's power-section breakup. Your Cort X100's humbuckers are hotter than vintage PAFs, so tone knob rolled to 7 tames the upper-mid harshness and mimics the LP's rounder attack. Mid boosted +1 from neutral to compensate for any scoop in the Pocketmaster's voicing.

PRO TIPFelder's sustain came from the cranked amp compressing naturally — on a practice amp, use a lighter pick attack on the initial note strike, then dig in as the note blooms. This mimics tube sag dynamics and keeps the solo singing rather than stabbing.

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