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Heavens door amp settings — Headrush Prime

The Guns guitar tone for “Heavens door”, dialed in for a Headrush Prime with a Jackson X Series Kelly KEXT. Studio version, Use Your Illusion II (1991) — signature heavy chorus/lead tone

Original rig

1987 Gibson Les Paul Standard / EDS-1275 -> Marshall JCM 2555 Silver Jubilee / JCM800 2203 -> Celestion Vintage 30 4x12 cab

Thick, singing British hard rock overdrive with rich midrange and smooth top end
Amp settings — Headrush Prime
CHANNEL'87 MS Jubilee 2555 (Lead Channel) + 4x12 Classic V30 CabBRIGHToffBOOSToff
GAIN 7 BASS 7 MID 6 TREBLE 5 PRESENCE 6 REVERB 3 MASTER 7
KnobSetting (0–10)
Gain7
Bass7
Mid6
Treble5
Presence6
Reverb3
Master7
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Guitar
PICKUPneck TONE8 VOLUME10
Signal chain

01Graphic EQ (Boss GE-7 style block)

Place in FX loop / post-amp block for Slash's solo midrange boost

100Hz 5 · 200Hz 5 · 400Hz 6 · 800Hz 7 · 1.6kHz 6 · 3.2kHz 5 · 6.4kHz 4 · Level 6

02Digital Delay (DD-3 style block)

Set to approx 350-400ms for lead sustain

Time 4 · Feedback 3 · Mix 3

03Hall Reverb

Post-amp ambient space

Decay 4 · Pre-Delay 2 · Mix 3
Why these settings

The HeadRush Prime features a direct Silver Jubilee model ('87 MS Jubilee) that accurately replicates Slash's Use Your Illusion rig. Your Jackson Kelly humbuckers have a modern, tight high-end attack, so rolling the guitar tone knob slightly back to 8 and keeping the amp treble at 5 rounds off any ceramic-style harshness to mirror the warmer Alnico II PAF response. Clean intro/verse: switch amp block to Roland JC-120 Clean or roll guitar volume down to 4 on the neck pickup.

PRO TIPSlash plays the iconic melody and solos on the neck pickup with the tone slightly rolled off to get his signature 'woman tone' flute-like vocal sustain.

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