Sweet child o mine amp settings — Boss Katana Air
The Guns n roses guitar tone for “Sweet child o mine”, dialed in for a Boss Katana Air with a Epiphone Les Paul Standard 50s. Studio version, Appetite for Destruction (1987) — iconic intro riff
1959 Les Paul Standard Replica (Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro humbuckers) into modified Marshall 1959 Super Lead (S.I.R. Stock #39 modded by Tim Caswell / Frank Levi) into Marshall 1960A 4x12 cab
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 6 |
| Bass | 6 |
| Mid | 7 |
| Treble | 5 |
| Reverb | 3 |
| Master | 6 |
The Katana-Air physically lacks a presence knob, so highs must be controlled entirely via the treble control and guitar tone pot. The Brown amp voice models the hot-rodded Marshall bite of Slash's S.I.R. #39, while pushing mids to 7 provides the vocal singing sustain. Rolling your Epiphone's neck tone knob to around 7 rounds off top-end harshness to capture that fluty neck humbucker attack. Solo boost: kick on the Katana-Air's internal Blues Drive booster at level 7 and gain 2.
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