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Sweet Child O' Mine amp settings — sonicake ampcube

The Guns N' Roses guitar tone for “Sweet Child O' Mine”, dialed in for a sonicake ampcube with a sqoe sest1000. Studio version, Appetite for Destruction (1987) — iconic intro riff and lead

Original rig

Kris Derrig 1959 Les Paul replica (Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro) into a rented modded Marshall Super Lead/JCM800 (S.I.R. Stock #39/36) / Silver Jubilee 2555 with Roland SRV-2000 studio delay

Warm, singing mid-forward British crunch with rolled-off top end and vocal sustain

Amp settings — sonicake ampcube

CHANNELLead channel / Crunch voiceBRIGHToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	6
Bass	6
Mid	8
Treble	5
Reverb	3
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE6 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Onboard Delay (Sonicake AmpCube)

Set delay time to roughly 420ms with low feedback for spatial depth without cluttering the riff

Time 5 · Feedback 3 · Level 3

Why these settings

The Sonicake AmpCube is a compact modeling practice amp without a physical presence control, so presence is nulled. Setting the amp to its high-gain British lead voicing provides the saturated Marshall midrange. Because the Sqoe SEST1000 has single-coil neck pickups compared to Slash's warmer humbuckers, rolling the guitar tone control down to 6 and boosting the amp mid to 8 warms up the treble and delivers the signature rounded woman tone. Switch to bridge pickup with tone on 10 for the rhythm sections.

PRO TIPThe secret to Slash's vocal, fluty intro tone is flipping to the neck pickup while rolling your guitar tone knob back to around 6; pick smoothly directly over the middle-to-neck position to enhance the low-mid resonance.

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