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Sweet child o mine amp settings — M-Vave Tank G V2

The Gun's and rose's guitar tone for “Sweet child o mine”, dialed in for a M-Vave Tank G V2 with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Studio version, Appetite for Destruction (1987) — intro riff and main solos

Original rig

Kris Derrig 1959 Les Paul replica (Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro pickups) into modded Marshall Super Lead (S.I.R. Stock #36/39) / Silver Jubilee, Dunlop Cry Baby wah (cocked), Roland SRV-2000 digital delay (420ms)

Warm, singing mid-focused lead tone with rolled-off top end and cocked-wah vocal honk
Amp settings — M-Vave Tank G V2
CHANNELAMP Type 6 (Marshall JCM800 / British High-Gain Model) + 4x12 Greenback Cab IRBOOSToff
GAIN 6 BASS 6 MID 7 TREBLE 4 REVERB 2 MASTER 6
KnobSetting (0–10)
Gain6
Bass6
Mid7
Treble4
Reverb2
Master6
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Guitar
PICKUPneck TONE6 VOLUME10
Signal chain

01Tank-G Delay Block

Set to roughly 420ms with 3-4 subtle repeats behind the lead

Time 5 · Feedback 3 · Mix 3

02Tank-G Reverb Block

Room/Plate style for subtle studio space ambience

Decay 4 · Mix 2
Why these settings

Because you are playing a single-coil Stratocaster rather than Slash's thick Alnico II humbucker Les Paul, the amp treble is dialed down to 4 and bass raised to 6 to add necessary body. Rolling the Strat neck pickup tone knob down to 6 rounds off the glassy single-coil bite and mimics the iconic vocal woman-tone honk. The Tank-G Marshall-style amp model provides the liquid preamp sustain without needing an extra drive block in front. Fast end solo run: switch pickup selector to bridge and open guitar tone to 10.

PRO TIPSlash's vocal signature on the intro comes from picking firmly with the neck pickup while the tone knob is rolled back to around 6 — hit the strings slightly closer to the fretboard rather than the bridge to enhance that rounded flute-like attack.

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