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November Rain amp settings — Positive Grid Spark 40

The Guns N' Roses guitar tone for “November Rain”, dialed in for a Positive Grid Spark 40 with a Ibenez GIO GRGR221PA. Studio version, Use Your Illusion I (1991) — clean ballad intro/outro section

Original rig

Gibson Les Paul (neck pickup, tone 5-6) → Boss CE-2 Chorus → Marshall Silver Jubilee 2555 100W Head (studio) or Marshall 1959 Super Lead (modded)

Warm, articulate clean tone with rolled-back treble and mid clarity, lush chorus/reverb for ballad feel

Amp settings — Positive Grid Spark 40

CHANNELOD Silver Jubilee amp model (or Marshall Plexi/JCM800 if Jubilee unavailable)BRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	3
Bass	5
Mid	7
Treble	5
Presence	5
Reverb	4
Master	4

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE5 VOLUME8

Signal chain

01Chorus (Boss CE-2 emulation in Spark FX)

Enable the Chorus effect in the Spark app — use Analog Chorus or CE-1 model, moderate rate and depth for subtle width

Rate 4 · Depth 5

02Delay (digital delay in Spark FX)

Optional — adds dimension to clean ballad sections, set time around 300-350ms

Time 3 · Feedback 3 · Mix 4

Why these settings

Your Ibanez has humbuckers (higher output than the Les Paul's PAFs), so gain is dropped to 3 to keep the clean platform intact. Treble is cut to 5 because your humbuckers are brighter and the Spark's Marshall models are naturally bright — rolling your guitar tone to 5 mimics Slash's rolled-back neck pickup tone. Mid is kept at 7 to preserve the vocal clarity of the ballad. The Spark's reverb and chorus FX handle the studio lushness.

PRO TIPRoll your guitar volume to 8 instead of 10 — this cleans up the humbucker output and lets you dig in with your pick for dynamics without breaking up. Use your pinky to roll the tone knob between 5 (verses) and 7 (solo phrases) for tonal variation within the same patch.

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