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The Trooper (2015 Remaster) amp settings — Valeton GP-200

The Iron Maiden guitar tone for “The Trooper (2015 Remaster)”, dialed in for a Valeton GP-200 with a Cort B4. Studio version, Piece of Mind (1983), 2015 Remaster

Original rig

Fender Precision Bass (or Ibanez Roadster on video) with Rotosound flatwound strings, fingers, DI blended with Trace Elliot or Marshall amp, recorded at Compass Point Studios with Martin Birch engineering

Aggressive galloping midrange growl with tight low-end, clanky upper-mid attack from flatwounds played hard with fingers, cutting through dense twin-guitar mix

Amp settings — Valeton GP-200

CHANNELSVT model or Brit 800 Bass model — select the amp block closest to Ampeg SVT or Marshall Bass voicingBRIGHTonBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	5
Bass	6
Mid	8
Treble	6
Reverb	0
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Compressor block (studio comp or optical)

Light compression to even out galloping dynamics without squashing attack

Threshold 4 · Ratio 5 · Attack 3 · Level 6

02EQ block (parametric or graphic)

Boost 800Hz for Harris clank, slight 2.5kHz for string definition, roll off sub-bass mud

Low 5 · Low-Mid (800Hz) 7 · High-Mid (2.5kHz) 6 · High 4

Why these settings

Harris's tone is defined by aggressive 800Hz midrange bark from flatwounds and a P-bass neck pickup, played hard with fingers. The GP-200's SVT or Marshall Bass model gets closest — push mids to 8 to replicate his cut-through growl. Your Cort B4 has J-style pickups so favor the neck pickup and roll tone slightly to approximate P-bass thump. Roundwounds will be brighter than his flats — compensate by dropping treble 1 notch vs typical settings.

PRO TIPHarris digs in extremely hard with his fingers right over the neck pickup and uses a floating thumb technique — the attack transient IS the tone, so play aggressively near the fretboard edge and let the notes bloom into that midrange clank rather than plucking softly near the bridge.

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