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hotel California amp settings — Yamaha THR10II

The Eagles guitar tone for “hotel California”, dialed in for a Yamaha THR10II with a Yamaha Pacifica 112V. Studio version, Hotel California album (1976), Criteria Studios Miami

Original rig

1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard (PAF humbuckers) → Fender Narrow-Panel Tweed Deluxe 5E3 (~1955, cranked) → Maestro Echoplex EP-3

Fat, singing lead tone with smooth breakup, prominent midrange, tape-delay swell on sustained notes

Amp settings — Yamaha THR10II

CHANNELBoutique (Crunch) — closest to cranked Tweed Deluxe voicingBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	5
Bass	6
Mid	7
Treble	5
Presence	4
Reverb	2
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01THR10II Built-in Tape Echo

Use the Tape Echo effect in the THR Remote app to replicate the Echoplex slapback/swell character

Time 4 · Feedback 3 · Mix 3

Why these settings

Your Pacifica's Alnico V humbucker is brighter and lower-output than Felder's PAF-loaded Les Paul, so I pushed mid +1 and cut treble -1 vs the original to compensate for the thinner voicing. The THR10II's Boutique channel approximates the Tweed Deluxe's midrange-forward, no-negative-feedback compression. Gain stays moderate—the original was edge-of-breakup, not saturated.

PRO TIPRoll your guitar's tone knob to 7 and use your pick angle to control the 'bloom'—Felder's singing sustain comes from picking closer to the neck and letting notes swell into the Echoplex repeat, not from high gain.

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