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Hotel California amp settings — Zoom G3Xn

The Eagles guitar tone for “Hotel California”, dialed in for a Zoom G3Xn with a ESP LTD EC-256. Studio version, Hotel California (1976) — Don Felder opening solo / harmony lead tone

Original rig

1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard plugged straight into a cranked narrow-panel 1950s Fender Tweed Deluxe (5E3) combo, Maestro Echoplex

Warm, mid-rich, harmonically saturated Tweed drive with smooth top-end roll-off

Amp settings — Zoom G3Xn

CHANNELFD_DLXR (or FD_TWNR) amp model block with matching cabBRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	6
Mid	7
Treble	5
Reverb	3
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Zoom G3Xn: RC_CLST (RC Booster / Clean Boost block)

Used as subtle input drive into the amp block

Gain 3 · Bass 5 · Treble 5 · Volume 7

02Zoom G3Xn: TAPE_ECO (Tape Delay block)

Emulates Felder's studio Maestro Echoplex tape slap

Time 3 · F.Back 2 · Mix 3

Why these settings

Felder cut the famous solo using a '59 Les Paul neck pickup straight into a cranked Tweed Deluxe, which has thick, singing midrange and zero harshness. On your LTD EC-256 humbuckers, rolling the guitar tone back to 7 takes off modern pickup bite, while setting the Zoom's Fender Deluxe amp model with boosted mids and moderate gain faithfully replicates that cranked small-tweed compression.

PRO TIPSwitch to the neck pickup and dig in with pick attack near the middle of the body for that signature vocal, fluty sustain Don Felder gets on the opening bends.

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