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While my guitar gently weeps amp settings — Fender Twin Reverb

The George Harrison (hall of rock n roll prince) guitar tone for “While my guitar gently weeps”, dialed in for a Fender Twin Reverb with a Fender Jimi Hendrix Stratocaster. Live at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction (2004) - Prince outro solo

Original rig

H.S. Anderson MadCat Telecaster into Boss DS-1 / Boss BF-2 / multi-effects into Mesa/Boogie or Soldano backline

Searing, singing high-gain solo with rich upper mids, heavy sustain, and tape/flanged harmonic bite

Amp settings — Fender Twin Reverb

CHANNELVibrato ChannelBRIGHToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Jim Dunlop Cry Baby GCB95

Used as an active expressive filter and cocked-wah harmonic booster during solo runs

02Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9

Tightens low end and pushes the OD-3 with strong mid-hump focus

Drive 2 · Tone 6 · Level 8

03Boss OD-3 OverDrive

Primary high-gain saturation block cascading into the clean Fender front-end

Drive 8 · Tone 5 · Level 6

04Boss RV-6 Reverb

Set mode to Plate or Room for ambient hall decay

E.Level 3 · Tone 4 · Time 4 · Mode 1

Why these settings

The Fender Twin Reverb is a pristine, high-headroom clean platform with no presence knob and a naturally scooped mid profile, so the bright switch must stay off and mids are boosted to 7. All gain is generated by stacking the TS9 as a mid-focused overdrive boost directly into the Boss OD-3 running hot to emulate Prince's searing, compressed Soldano/Mesa lead tone. Tone on the Stratocaster bridge pickup is rolled back slightly to 8 to tame single-coil ice-pick frequencies through the Twin's high-frequency shelf.

PRO TIPPrince leaned hard into controlled harmonic feedback and heavy vibrato: park the Cry Baby toe-forward during fast runs for screaming presence, and pick aggressively close to the bridge saddles to coax out natural pinch harmonics.

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