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Sweet Child O' Mine amp settings — Boss Katana 100 MkII

The Guns N' Roses guitar tone for “Sweet Child O' Mine”, dialed in for a Boss Katana 100 MkII with a Epiphone Les Paul Standard 60s. Studio version, Appetite for Destruction (1987) — 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) / Silver Jubilee 2555, Roland SRV-2000 digital reverb/delay

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

Amp settings — Boss Katana 100 MkII

CHANNELLead amp type (Variation ON)BOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	6
Bass	6
Mid	8
Treble	5
Presence	4
Reverb	3
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Onboard Digital Delay Block

Set delay time to approximately 390ms with 2-3 soft repeats (run in Katana FX section)

Time 4 · Feedback 3 · Effect Level 3

Why these settings

The Katana 100 MkII's Lead voice delivers the hot-rodded Marshall crunch of the S.I.R. #39 without needing an external overdrive. Mids are pushed to 8 to recreate the vocal 'woman tone' midrange push, while treble and presence are pulled back slightly to tame the Epiphone ProBucker neck pickup's top end. For the main rhythm and outro solo, switch from the neck pickup to the bridge pickup with the guitar tone on 10.

PRO TIPSlash achieves the fluty, liquid attack on this intro by picking cleanly over the fretboard with medium-heavy pick attack while rolling the neck tone knob slightly back to around 8 to smooth out any transient bite.

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