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Sweet Child O' Mine amp settings — Blackstar ID:Core 20 V3

The Guns N' Roses guitar tone for “Sweet Child O' Mine”, dialed in for a Blackstar ID:Core 20 V3 with a Jackson JS22 Dinky. Studio version, Appetite for Destruction (1987) - Intro riff and main lead

Original rig

Kris Derrig '59 Les Paul replica (Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro humbuckers) into Marshall Silver Jubilee 2555 / modded JCM800 (SIR #36) with rack delay

Smooth, vocal, mid-focused neck humbucker lead tone with warm sustain and rolled-off highs

Amp settings — Blackstar ID:Core 20 V3

CHANNELSuper Crunch (ISF fully clockwise at 10 for British Marshall voicing)

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Reverb	4
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE6 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Onboard Digital Delay

Built-in delay effect on ID:Core, set to roughly 400ms with low repeats

Time 5 · Feedback 3 · Level 3

Why these settings

The Blackstar ID:Core 20 V3 uses an ISF knob in place of a traditional 3-band EQ, so bass, mid, treble, and presence are null. Set Voice to Super Crunch with ISF at 10 to replicate the warm, mid-focused Marshall Silver Jubilee response. Gain is dialed to 7 for singing sustain while keeping note definition clear for the intro run.

PRO TIPRoll your Jackson's neck pickup tone knob down to roughly 6 to tame ceramic pickup harshness and mimic Slash's smooth, hollow 'woman tone' from Alnico II neck pickups.

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