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Sweet child o' mine amp settings — Vox Pathfinder 10

The Guns n' Roses guitar tone for “Sweet child o' mine”, dialed in for a Vox Pathfinder 10 with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Studio version, Appetite for Destruction (1987) — intro riff and main leads

Original rig

1959 Les Paul Standard Replica (Kris Derrig build) with Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro humbuckers into a modded Marshall JCM800 / Silver Jubilee half-stack

Warm, mid-forward, singing neck-pickup lead with rounded highs and rich Marshall saturation

Amp settings — Vox Pathfinder 10

CHANNELOverdrive (Clean/Overdrive switch pushed in)

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	6
Treble	4
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE5 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Marshall Guv'nor / Bluesbreaker style Overdrive

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned; adds Marshall-style mid crunch and sustain to the analog solid-state front end

Gain 6 · Tone 5 · Level 7

Why these settings

The Pathfinder 10 is an analog solid-state practice amp with only Gain, Bass, and Treble controls (no onboard Mid, Presence, or Reverb). To emulate Slash's warm Alnico II neck humbucker on a bright single-coil Stratocaster, roll your guitar's neck tone knob down to 5 and keep the amp's Treble low at 4 to prevent glassiness. Push the amp's Overdrive switch with Gain at 7 to achieve singing sustain without high-end fizz.

PRO TIPSlash's signature intro liquid attack relies heavily on playing purely on the neck pickup with a heavy pick angle, picking lightly near the 12th fret rather than down near the bridge to accentuate the fluty fundamental frequencies.

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