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Paradise City amp settings — Laney Ironheart IRT60H

The Guns N' Roses guitar tone for “Paradise City”, dialed in for a Laney Ironheart IRT60H with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Live performance, Use Your Illusion Tour (1991-1993) — main crunchy rhythm/riff tone

Original rig

1984/1987 Gibson Les Paul Standard (Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro humbuckers) into Marshall JCM 2555 Silver Jubilee / JCM800 2203 with 1960BV 4x12 cab

Aggressive British mid-forward roar with tight low-end and cutting treble bite

Amp settings — Laney Ironheart IRT60H

CHANNELClean ChannelBRIGHToffBOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Joyo British Sound

Primary Marshall preamp gain stage running directly into clean amp input

Low 6 · Mid 7 · High 6 · Level 6 · Voice 7 · Drive 7

Why these settings

The Joyo British Sound acts as the Marshall JCM/Jubilee preamp, so the Laney is parked on its cleanest setting with gain dropped to 2 to prevent muddy dual-gain staging. Setting the Joyo Voice knob to 7 dials in the classic cranked Marshall midrange punch. To compensate for the brighter, thinner single-coil bridge pickup on the Player Strat compared to Slash's warm Alnico II humbuckers, Treble is tamed to 5 and the guitar's Tone knob is rolled back to 8. Clean intro: bypass the Joyo British Sound and switch to neck+middle pickups.

PRO TIPSlash picks aggressively close to the bridge using heavy picks, adding percussive pick attack; roll the Strat bridge tone down to 8 to avoid ice-pick highs while preserving that fast, biting snap.

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