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Stairway to Heaven amp settings — Marshall MG30CFX

The Led Zeppelin guitar tone for “Stairway to Heaven”, dialed in for a Marshall MG30CFX with a ESP LTD MH-1000. Studio version, Led Zeppelin IV (1971) — iconic guitar solo

Original rig

1959 Fender Telecaster (bridge pickup) into a cranked 1959 Supro 1690T Coronado (1x12 mod)

Biting, mid-forward vintage tube compression with bright top-end snap and tight low end

Amp settings — Marshall MG30CFX

CHANNELCrunch

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	6
Bass	4
Mid	7
Treble	8
Reverb	3
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Sola Sound Tone Bender MKII (or standard treble booster/fuzz)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned

Attack 5 · Level 7

Why these settings

Jimmy Page recorded the solo on a biting single-coil Telecaster through a small, cranked Supro combo. Because your ESP LTD MH-1000 has higher-output humbuckers, set the MG30CFX to the Crunch channel with treble pushed to 8 to restore Telecaster bite and pull bass down to 4 to prevent low-end mud. If you add the recommended Tone Bender style fuzz in the future, switch to the Clean channel with gain at 2. Acoustic intro/clean electric layers: switch to the Clean channel with guitar volume backed off to 7.

PRO TIPPick aggressively near the bridge saddles rather than over the neck or middle area to reproduce the cutting transient attack and upper-harmonic squeal Page achieved with his 1959 Telecaster.

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