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Sweet child of mine amp settings — Vox Pathfinder 10

The Guns and roses guitar tone for “Sweet child of mine”, dialed in for a Vox Pathfinder 10 with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Main intro riff and lead, Studio version, Appetite for Destruction (1987)

Original rig

1959 Gibson Les Paul replica (Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro) into Tim Caswell-modded Marshall JCM800 2203 with Celestion Greenbacks

Thick, warm, vocal-like overdrive with aggressive midrange bark and natural compression

Amp settings — Vox Pathfinder 10

CHANNELOverdrive switch ON

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

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Marshall-style Overdrive (e.g. Marshall Guv'nor / Bluesbreaker clone)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned

Gain 6 · Tone 5 · Level 7

Why these settings

The Vox Pathfinder 10 lacks a dedicated mid knob and uses bright solid-state circuitry, so roll treble down to 4 and push bass to 7 to approximate Slash's thick Marshall low-mid warmth. Running single coils instead of Slash's Alnico II humbuckers means switching to the neck pickup and rolling the guitar tone back to 7 is essential to achieve that rounded, flute-like intro sustain without harshness. Adding an external Marshall-style drive pedal later will give you the true tube-style sag and mid-forward saturation this amp's analog drive switch approximates.

PRO TIPSlash plays the entire intro riff on the neck humbucker with the tone control rolled back to soften the pick attack; replicate this 'woman tone' on your Strat by using the neck pickup and picking smoothly closer to the fretboard rather than near the bridge.

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