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Slow Dancing in a Burning Room amp settings — Blackstar ID:Core 20 V3

The John Mayer guitar tone for “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room”, dialed in for a Blackstar ID:Core 20 V3 with a Squier Affinity Telecaster. Studio version, Continuum (2006)

Original rig

Fender '64 Stratocaster → Fender Deluxe (main part), Two-Rock amps (overdubs), Klon-style overdrive, compression, reverb

Warm, glassy clean with soft breakup, expressive dynamics, neck-position single-coil bloom with ambient reverb

Amp settings — Blackstar ID:Core 20 V3

CHANNELClean WarmBOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE7 VOLUME8

Why these settings

The ID:Core's Clean Warm voice approximates the Fender Deluxe's glassy headroom. Your Tele's bridge-focused brightness is tamed by using the neck pickup with tone rolled to 7 and volume to 8, mimicking Mayer's Strat neck-position smoothness. Mid pushed to 6 compensates for Tele's thinner midrange vs a vintage Strat. Without pedals, the built-in reverb handles the ambient depth—no drive pedal needed since the original is predominantly clean with touch-sensitive breakup from picking dynamics.

PRO TIPControl your gain with picking intensity—dig in slightly for the vocal-like swells on sustained notes, then back off for the delicate verse phrases. The tone lives in your right hand dynamics, not the amp's gain knob.

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