Who's Crying Now amp settings — Boss GT-1
The Journey guitar tone for “Who's Crying Now”, dialed in for a Boss GT-1 with a Jackson JS22 Dinky. Studio version, Escape (1981) outro solo
1977 Gibson Les Paul Pro Deluxe (DiMarzio Super Distortion bridge pickup, Floyd Rose) into a small solid-state Roland 1x12 combo amp, heavy studio console compression (Mike Stone) and Lexicon 224 studio reverb/delay
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 3 |
| Bass | 5 |
| Mid | 7 |
| Treble | 4 |
| Reverb | 5 |
| Master | 6 |
01FX1 (Compressor block)
Heavy front-end compression to replicate the studio tracking compression and endless sustain
02OD/DS (Warm OD block)
Provides the smooth, singing clipping into the clean solid-state Roland model
03DELAY (Standard Digital Delay block)
Set to roughly 380-420ms for lush studio ballad ambience
Neal Schon tracked this iconic solo with a high-output humbucker straight into a small solid-state Roland combo pushed by heavy studio compression rather than a cranked Marshall stack. Using the GT-1's JC-120 Clean preamp model paired with the Warm OD and heavy Compressor blocks recreates that tight, mid-focused singing sustain without fizz. Rolling your Jackson's tone knob down to 7 tames the hotter ceramic bridge pickup attack to match the warm, vocal flute-like character on the record.
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