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Sweet child o mine amp settings — Marshall MG30CFX

The Guns n roses guitar tone for “Sweet child o mine”, dialed in for a Marshall MG30CFX with a PRS SE Custom 24. Studio version, Appetite for Destruction (1987) — intro riff tone

Original rig

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

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

Amp settings — Marshall MG30CFX

CHANNELCrunchBOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE4 VOLUME10

Why these settings

The MG30CFX Crunch channel reproduces the hot-rodded Plexi breakup of Slash's S.I.R. #39 without the excessive fizz of OD1. Because the MG series lacks a dedicated presence control, keep treble at 5 and push mids to 7 to nail that vocal, honky Marshall midrange. Rolling your PRS neck pickup tone control down to 4 is essential to mimic the mellow high-end of Slash's Alnico II humbuckers. Main solo: switch to the bridge pickup and push tone back up to 8.

PRO TIPThe secret to the intro's flute-like singing tone is Slash's 'woman tone' trick: stay strictly on the neck humbucker with the tone rolled down between 3 and 5, and pick with the round shoulder of a heavy pick right over the neck pickup for maximum fundamental roundness.

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