Venus Isle amp settings — Marshall JMP1
The Eric Johnson guitar tone for “Venus Isle”, dialed in for a Marshall JMP1 with a Fender American stratocaster. Studio version, Venus Isle title track (1996) - signature violin lead tone
1954 Fender Stratocaster ('Virginia') into Chandler Tube Driver / Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face, Echoplex EP-3, cranked 1968 Marshall 50W Plexi (jumped, dark woman-tone EQ)
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 10 |
| Bass | 6 |
| Mid | 10 |
| Treble | 2 |
| Presence | 0 |
| Master | 8 |
01TC Electronic G-Major 2 (Delay Block)
(FX loop) 380ms tape-style delay block emulating Eric's Echoplex EP-3
02TC Electronic G-Major 2 (Parametric EQ Block)
(FX loop) Low-pass shelving cut around 4.5kHz and 800Hz broad boost to sculpt Eric's dark, vocal violin timbre
The JMP-1 faceplate parameters range from 0-20 for Gain/Volume and -6 to +6 for Bass, Mid, Treble, and Presence, so values are scaled precisely to those increments (Mid +6 / maxed, Treble -4, Presence -6). Eric gets his famous smooth top end by rolling treble and presence completely off on his Plexi and rolling the bridge tone pot down; cutting the JMP-1's Treble and Presence prevents standard Marshall buzz and mimics his Chandler Tube Driver into Plexi front-end. Keep the JMP-1 Bass moderate at 0 to avoid muddying the dense, singing low-mid resonance. Clean verse: switch JMP-1 to Clean 1 and bypass G-Major 2 EQ block.
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