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Wasting love amp settings — M-Vave Blackbox

The Iron maiden guitar tone for “Wasting love”, dialed in for a M-Vave Blackbox with a Ibanez RG550. Studio version, Fear of the Dark (1992) — Janick Gers guitar solo

Original rig

Marshall JCM900 4100 / JCM800 + Fender Stratocaster (Seymour Duncan JB Jr) + Boss SD-1 & chorus/delay in rack

Mid-forward, fluid British high-gain lead with vocal upper-mid sustain, delay, and wah sweeps

Amp settings — M-Vave Blackbox

CHANNELMarshall-style high-gain model (JCM800/900 style block) + 4x12 Greenback IRBRIGHToffBOOSTon

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	5
Mid	7
Treble	6
Presence	6
Reverb	4
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE9 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Jim Dunlop Cry Baby GCB95

In front of modeler; sweep actively during expressive vocal solo phrases

02TS-style Overdrive block

Tightens low end and adds singing sustain into the Marshall amp block

Drive 2 · Tone 6 · Level 8

03Digital Delay block

Post-amp / FX loop placement; roughly 380-420ms tempo-synced quarter or dotted-eighth delay

Time 5 · Feedback 4 · Level 3

Why these settings

Janick's tone comes from hot bridge pickups hitting a pushed Marshall with mid-hump overdrive. On your RG550, the bridge humbucker pushes the M-Vave Blackbox hard, so run the TS overdrive block as a clean boost with low gain to retain articulation without fizz. Treble is pulled back slightly to 6 and tone to 9 to tame the RG550's sharper top-end attack compared to Janick's warmer Strat tone. For the clean intro/verse, switch off the overdrive and delay blocks and select a clean Fender-style amp block with neck pickup.

PRO TIPDig in with aggressive pick attack on the fast legato runs, and feather the Cry Baby in the middle 40-70% of its travel to match Janick's expressive vocal mid-range sweeps rather than toeing it fully forward.

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