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Slow dancing in a burning room amp settings — Vox Adio Air GT

The John Mayer guitar tone for “Slow dancing in a burning room”, dialed in for a Vox Adio Air GT with a Gibson Les Paul Studio. Studio version, Continuum (2006) - iconic intro riff

Original rig

1964 Fender Stratocaster (Neck/Middle position 4) into Two-Rock Custom Reverb Signature / Dumble Steel String Singer with subtle Klon transparent boost and plate/spring reverb

Glassy, scooped, touch-sensitive edge-of-breakup clean with blooming low-end and vocal chime

Amp settings — Vox Adio Air GT

CHANNELTEXAS CLEAN amp model

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

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Guitar

PICKUPneck+middle TONE9 VOLUME8

Signal chain

01Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9

Used as a clean mid-push/boost to emulate Mayer's transparent front-end drive

Drive 1 · Tone 6 · Level 8

Why these settings

The Vox Adio Air GT's 'Texas Clean' model provides the high-headroom American clean platform needed for this tone. Because a Les Paul Studio has darker, hotter humbuckers than Mayer's scooped Stratocaster, the amp mids are pulled back to 4 while treble is pushed to 7, and guitar volume is backed down to 8 to restore top-end air and single-coil touch dynamics. Your TS9 is set with Drive near zero and Level pushed to add light harmonic breakup without muddying the clean fundamental.

PRO TIPPlay with your bare thumb and index fingers rather than a flatpick on the intro double-stops—striking upward with flesh provides the percussive 'pop' and warm fundamental snap central to Mayer's Continuum tone.

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