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Knock on heavens door amp settings — BORNE F60

The Guns n roses guitar tone for “Knock on heavens door”, dialed in for a BORNE F60 with a Paralel Stratocaster. Studio recording, Use Your Illusion II (1991) — iconic lead guitar tone

Original rig

1958 Gibson Explorer / Kris Derrig Les Paul replica into Marshall Silver Jubilee 2555 / JCM800 with Celestion V30s

Warm, singing neck-pickup British crunch with smooth sustain and rich upper mids

Amp settings — BORNE F60

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Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	6
Treble	5
Reverb	2
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE5 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Cuvave Cube Baby (Amp / IR / FX)

Set Amp model slot to position 6 (Marshall JCM style). Acts as the primary preamp gain and cabinet simulation direct into the amp clean input.

Type (Amp Model) 6 · Gain 7 · Tone 5 · Delay Time 4 · Delay Feedback 3 · Reverb 3

Why these settings

The Cuvave Cube Baby provides the Marshall-style preamp crunch and cab simulation, allowing your solid-state amp to remain a neutral, clean platform at low gain. Rolling your Strat neck pickup's tone knob down to around 5 softens the single-coil bite and emulates Slash's famous warm neck humbucker woman tone. For the clean reggae-style verse, bypass the Cube Baby's high-gain amp section or back off the guitar volume knob to 4.

PRO TIPPick with the rounded edge or flesh of a heavy pick on the neck pickup to recreate Slash's liquid, flute-like attack on the bends without single-coil spikiness.

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