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Sweet Child O' Mine amp settings — Borne Strike G30

The Guns N' Roses guitar tone for “Sweet Child O' Mine”, dialed in for a Borne Strike G30 with a Tagima Sixmart. Studio version, Appetite for Destruction (1987) — matching the iconic intro riff

Original rig

Kris Derrig '59 Les Paul Replica (Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro pickups) into modded Marshall JCM800 (S.I.R. Stock #39), Dunlop Cry Baby Wah, Roland SRV-2000 digital reverb/delay

Smooth, singing British crunch with a vocal, rounded top end and pushed upper midrange

Amp settings — Borne Strike G30

CHANNELCleanBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	6
Mid	7
Treble	5
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Yuer US Dream RF-04

High-gain Marshall-style distortion acting as the primary drive stage into clean amp

Dist 6 · Tone 4 · Volume 6

Why these settings

The Yuer US Dream pedal provides the modded British high-gain character, allowing the Borne Strike G30 to run clean with gain kept low to avoid double-gain mush. The pedal's Tone control and your guitar's Tone pot are rolled back slightly to recreate Slash's warm, rounded neck-pickup lead voicing without harshness. Switch to the bridge pickup with the Tone knob wide open for the main chorus riffs and solo sections.

PRO TIPSlash achieves that fluty, vocal quality on the intro by picking very consistently right over the neck pickup with the guitar tone control slightly rolled back to around 7 to smooth out the pick transient.

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