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Sweet Child O' Mine amp settings — M-Vave Blackbox

The Guns N' Roses guitar tone for “Sweet Child O' Mine”, dialed in for a M-Vave Blackbox with a Ibanez RG550. Live performance, Use Your Illusion Tour (Tokyo 1992) — iconic intro and main solo

Original rig

1987 Marshall Silver Jubilee 2555 / modified JCM800 2203, Gibson Les Paul Standard (Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro), Dunlop Cry Baby Wah, rack delay/reverb

Flute-like, vocal lead tone with rich low-mids and sustained British crunch

Amp settings — M-Vave Blackbox

CHANNELMarshall JCM800 / Jubilee model + 4x12 Greenback IRBRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	6
Mid	6
Treble	5
Presence	5
Reverb	3
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Jim Dunlop Cry Baby GCB95

In front of M-Vave input. Leave bypassed for intro and melodic solo; engage and sweep actively for the fast outro solo run.

02M-Vave Blackbox Digital Delay Block

Internal delay block placed post-amp/cab (~425ms tempo, subtle ambience)

Time 4 · Feedback 3 · Mix 3

Why these settings

The Ibanez RG550 V7 neck humbucker has tighter bass and slightly sharper treble than Slash's vintage-wound Alnico II neck pickup, so rolling guitar tone to 7 rounds off top-end spike while boosting mids on the M-Vave delivers the classic vocal 'woman tone'. M-Vave's Marshall-style lead model provides the tube saturation directly, keeping the Cry Baby purely as an external filter without stacking harsh solid-state gain. Outro solo switch: flick guitar pickup selector to bridge and rock the Cry Baby dynamically.

PRO TIPPick right over the 24th fret marker with a thick pick angled slightly; striking near the neck joint accentuates the round, flute-like fundamental frequencies of the intro arpeggios.

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