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Sweet Child O' Mine amp settings — Fazley Kubo BT 10

The Guns N' Roses guitar tone for “Sweet Child O' Mine”, dialed in for a Fazley Kubo BT 10 with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Studio version, Appetite for Destruction (1987) — iconic opening theme riff and melodic lead

Original rig

Kris Derrig 1959 Les Paul replica (Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro humbuckers) into modified Marshall 100W Super Lead (S.I.R. Stock #36) with Roland SRV-2000 digital reverb/delay

Singing vocal neck-pickup crunch with woody, mid-forward British bite

Amp settings — Fazley Kubo BT 10

CHANNELOverdrive (Drive channel engaged)

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

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE6 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Overdrive (e.g. Boss SD-1 or Ibanez TS9)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned; adds the Marshall mid-hump and sustain that small solid-state practice amps lack

Drive 3 · Tone 5 · Level 8

Why these settings

The Fazley Kubo BT 10 is a small practice amp with a 5-inch speaker and a simple 2-band EQ (no mid, presence, or reverb controls). To mimic Slash's thick, woody Les Paul humbucker tone on a Fender Stratocaster, roll your guitar's neck tone knob down to 6 and cut the amp's treble knob to smooth out single-coil fizziness. Running the amp's built-in drive at 7 provides necessary saturation without completely collapsing the small speaker.

PRO TIPSlash famously played the iconic intro riff strictly on the neck humbucker with the tone control rolled back to around 6 or 7 to get that singing, 'woman tone'-style fluty resonance—dig in lightly over the fretboard with a thick pick (around 1.14mm) rather than picking near the bridge.

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