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In my dreams amp settings — Soldano SLO-100

The Gary moore guitar tone for “In my dreams”, dialed in for a Soldano SLO-100 with a Squier Affinity Stratocaster. Studio version, How Blue Can You Get (mid-2000s session, lead tone)

Original rig

1959 Gibson Les Paul + Marshall DSL100/JTM45 + Marshall Guv'nor / Ibanez TS10 + Roland SDE-3000

Searing, vocal blues-rock lead tone with endless sustain, rich midrange compression, and warm ambient space

Amp settings — Soldano SLO-100

CHANNELOverdrive (Lead)BRIGHToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Distortion

Used strictly as a clean/mid boost in front of the Lead channel to tighten the low end and extend sustain

Dist 2 · Tone 5 · Level 8

02Reverb

(FX loop) Recreates the spacious studio plate/room ambience behind the dry lead

Decay 6 · Tone 4 · Mix 4

Why these settings

The Soldano SLO-100 Overdrive channel supplies immense singing sustain naturally, perfectly matching Gary Moore's saturated lead voice without needing an external gain source. To compensate for the Squier Strat's thinner single-coil neck pickup compared to a 1959 Les Paul humbucker, amp mid is pushed to 7, treble and presence are softened, and the tone knob is rolled back to 8 to thicken the note attack. Your distortion pedal is set with low drive and high level as a dedicated front-end boost to push the front stage into smooth, controlled feedback.

PRO TIPSelect the neck pickup and roll the guitar tone knob down to around 7-8 to take the glassy single-coil bite off the top end, creating the thick, 'woman-tone'-style vocal bloom Moore used on sustained bends.

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