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Sweet child o mine amp settings — M vave Mk300

The Guns n roses guitar tone for “Sweet child o mine”, dialed in for a M vave Mk300 with a Gibson Flying V. Studio version, Appetite for Destruction (1987) — intro riff

Original rig

1959 Les Paul Standard Replica (Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro pickups) into modded Marshall 1959 Super Lead (S.I.R. Stock #39) into Marshall 1960A 4x12 cab

Warm, singing, vocal neck-pickup crunch with rolled-off highs and thick upper-mid sustain

Amp settings — M vave Mk300

CHANNELMarshall-style high-gain / Plexi model + 4x12 Greenback IRBRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	5
Mid	7
Treble	5
Presence	4
Reverb	2
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE6 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Compressor / Clean Boost block

In front of amp model to add singing sustain to the neck pickup

Sustain 4 · Level 7

02Digital Reverb / Room block

Post-amp block to match the subtle studio room ambience

Decay 3 · Mix 2

Why these settings

The Flying V humbuckers have a tighter, slightly sharper high-end attack than Slash's warm Alnico II pickups, so roll the guitar tone knob back to 6 to achieve that signature flute-like, rounded 'woman tone'. The M-Vave MK300 Marshall model provides the hot-rodded Caswell #39 crunch, while the mid boost ensures fluid single-note sustain across the intro pattern. Solo switch: flip the guitar pickup selector to the bridge pickup and roll the tone knob up to 10.

PRO TIPSlash's vocal attack comes entirely from picking over the neck pickup with the guitar tone rolled back to around 5-6 on the neck humbucker while picking lightly near the 20th fret.

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