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Hosanna amp settings — Boss GX-100

The Hillsong UNITED & Brooke Ligertwood guitar tone for “Hosanna”, dialed in for a Boss GX-100 with a Fender American Professional II Stratocaster. Studio version, All of the Above (2007) — clean intro/verse ambient lead

Original rig

Fender Telecaster (neck pickup) → Analog Chorus → Dotted 8th Delay → Ambient Reverb → Vox AC30 (clean/edge of breakup)

Ambient, spacious clean with lush reverb, bright articulation, and soft attack
Amp settings — Boss GX-100
CHANNELBRIT STACK / VO DRIVE (Vox AC30 model block) + 2x12 Silver Bell IRBRIGHToffBOOSToff
GAIN 3 BASS 5 MID 6 TREBLE 6 PRESENCE 5 REVERB 0 MASTER 7
KnobSetting (0–10)
Gain3
Bass5
Mid6
Treble6
Presence5
Reverb0
Master7
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Guitar
PICKUPneck TONE9 VOLUME10
Signal chain

01Compressor Block (GX-100)

In front of amp block to smooth pick attack for ambient swells

Sustain 5 · Attack 4 · Level 6

02Chorus Block (GX-100)

Subtle stereo modulation before delays

Rate 3 · Depth 5 · Effect Level 5

03Digital Delay Block (GX-100)

Set tempo to dotted-eighth note subdivisions synced to song BPM (approx 76 BPM)

Time 7 · Feedback 5 · Effect Level 6

04Hall/Shimmer Reverb Block (GX-100)

Post-amp block in GX-100 routing for deep ambient wash

Decay 8 · Tone 5 · Effect Level 6
Why these settings

The Boss GX-100's Vox-style amp block delivers the chimey Class A headroom of the original AC30 without clipping. Using the Stratocaster's neck pickup gives the round, glassy body of the Telecaster neck while rolling tone back to 9 removes high-end spank. The GX-100's internal compressor, chorus, dotted-eighth delay, and ambient hall reverb handle the expansive worship space.

PRO TIPUse a thin nylon pick or fingerstyle plucking with soft dynamic control to prevent transient clipping, letting the dotted-eighth delay trails mesh seamlessly into the reverb wash.

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