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Sweet Child O' Mine amp settings — Zoom G9.2tt

The Guns N' Roses guitar tone for “Sweet Child O' Mine”, dialed in for a Zoom G9.2tt with a Sqoe Sest600. Live, Use Your Illusion Tour (Tokyo Dome 1992)

Original rig

1987 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop (Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro) into Marshall JCM 2555 Silver Jubilee 100W Head, EMB Audio Remote Wah, Boss DD-3 Digital Delay, Boss GE-7 Graphic Equalizer

Singing vocal neck-pickup lead with smooth sustain and subtle delay

Amp settings — Zoom G9.2tt

CHANNELMS 800 (Marshall JCM800 model) + UK 2x12 CabBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	6
Bass	6
Mid	7
Treble	6
Presence	6
Reverb	2
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE6 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Zoom G9.2tt Wah Block (Booster / Cocked Wah)

Set to Booster or stationary auto-wah peak to recreate the fixed mid-honk of Slash's live EMB remote wah

Tone 7 · Level 8

02Zoom G9.2tt Delay Block (Digital Delay)

FX loop section (~425ms tempo, subtle mix for live solo depth)

Time 4 · Feedback 3 · Mix 2

Why these settings

The Zoom G9.2tt's MS 800 model nails the hot-rodded Marshall bite, so mids are pushed to 7 to recreate the Silver Jubilee's dense midrange. Your Sqoe Sest600's neck pickup needs the guitar tone rolled back to 6 to tame single-coil/bright humbucker highs into Slash's signature liquid 'woman tone'. For the wah-heavy fast outro solo, switch your guitar to the bridge pickup with tone on 10.

PRO TIPSlash's vocal lead tone comes from picking heavily over the neck pickup with the tone rolled down to 6, letting the amplifier's natural compression bloom into pinch harmonics without needing fizzy excess gain.

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