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Still got the blues amp settings — Stagg Be-100

The Garry Moore guitar tone for “Still got the blues”, dialed in for a Stagg Be-100 with a Ibanez Grx120sp. Studio album cut, Still Got the Blues (1990) - signature lead tone

Original rig

1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard into Marshall The Guv'nor pedal into a 1989 prototype Marshall JTM45 reissue head through a 1960B 4x12 cab (with EVM12L speakers) and Roland SDD-320 Dimension D chorus/rack reverb

Singing, ultra-smooth sustain with thick pushed midrange and rounded top end (woman tone)

Amp settings — Stagg Be-100

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

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE6 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Marshall The Guv'nor (or vintage-voiced Marshall MIAB style overdrive/distortion)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned

Gain 7 · Bass 7 · Middle 10 · Treble 8 · Level 6

Why these settings

The Stagg BE-100 is an obscure/practice-grade solid-state amplifier with a simplified control layout lacking dedicated mid, presence, and reverb knobs, so those are set to null. Because you own no overdrive or distortion pedals, push the amp's onboard drive/gain to 7 to deliver the necessary lead sustain and roll treble back to 4 to prevent the solid-state high end from sounding raspy. If you add a Guv'nor or Tube Screamer in the future, roll the amplifier's gain back down to 2 and let the pedal supply the thick midrange saturation. Clean rhythm parts: roll guitar volume down to 5.

PRO TIPFlip to the Ibanez Infinity neck humbucker and roll your guitar tone control back to roughly 6—this rounds off the attack and re-creates Gary Moore's famous singing, fluty 'woman tone' sustain without flubbing out.

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