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Heartbreaker amp settings — Boss d Dual cube

The Led zeppelin guitar tone for “Heartbreaker”, dialed in for a Boss d Dual cube with a Cort G110. Studio version, Led Zeppelin II (1969) — iconic unaccompanied solo break

Original rig

1958 Gibson Les Paul Standard into Marshall Super Lead 100W (cranked), Sola Sound Tone Bender Mk II fuzz for riff sections; solo recorded dry with no effects

Raw, aggressive mid-forward crunch with singing sustain and biting treble attack

Amp settings — Boss d Dual cube

CHANNELCrunch (amp type selector)BOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Why these settings

The Dual Cube's Crunch channel approximates a pushed Marshall voicing. Your Cort's ceramic humbuckers are hotter and brighter than Page's PAF-equipped Les Paul, so treble is pulled back from the original's 8 to 6, and mid pushed to 8 to capture the thick vocal midrange. Gain at 7 reaches the edge-of-breakup saturation Page achieved with cranked Marshalls. No presence knob exists on this amp.

PRO TIPPage's solo uses aggressive hammer-ons and pull-offs with the fretting hand doing most of the work — dig in hard with your pick on accented notes but let the legato phrases sing without re-picking every note.

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