Sweet child o mine amp settings — Stranger 102pm
The Guns n roses guitar tone for “Sweet child o mine”, dialed in for a Stranger 102pm with a Fender Telecaster Thinline. Studio version, Appetite for Destruction (1987) — intro riff
1959 Les Paul Standard Replica (Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro humbuckers) into modified Marshall 1959 Super Lead (S.I.R. Stock #39 mod) into Marshall 1960A 4x12 cab
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 7 |
| Bass | 6 |
| Mid | 7 |
| Treble | 5 |
| Reverb | 2 |
| Master | 6 |
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The Stranger 102pm is a solid-state amplifier without dedicated presence control, so push the mid EQ to 7 and set amp gain to 7 on the drive channel to emulate the modded Marshall's thick crunch. Because your Thinline Telecaster has single-coil brightness and less low-end girth than Slash's Alnico II humbuckers, rolling your guitar tone knob down to 6 rounds off the harsh transient bite. Adding a classic Marshall-in-a-box pedal in the future will tighten the low-mids and give you the singing compression of the S.I.R. #39 head. Solo switch: flip the pickup selector to bridge and open tone to 10.
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