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Stairway to heaven amp settings — Positive Grid Spark 40

The Led zeppelin guitar tone for “Stairway to heaven”, dialed in for a Positive Grid Spark 40 with a Cort X300. Studio version, Led Zeppelin IV (1971) — intro/verse clean tone (solo section uses different guitar/amp)

Original rig

1959 Fender Telecaster → Supro Coronado 1690T (small combo, warm American-voiced breakup)

Warm, slightly compressed clean with subtle edge-of-breakup grit, fingerpicked articulation

Amp settings — Positive Grid Spark 40

CHANNELClean amp model (American Clean or Tweed — closest to Supro's warm American voicing)BRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	3
Bass	6
Mid	5
Treble	5
Reverb	2
Master	6

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Why these settings

The Supro was a low-wattage American amp with warm compression and soft breakup — the Spark's Tweed or American Clean model captures this character. Your Cort X300's humbuckers are hotter than Page's Tele single coils, so gain is dropped to 3 (vs the original's edge-of-breakup at higher volume) and treble rolled back to 5 to prevent harshness. Neck pickup compensates for the humbucker's darker voicing vs Tele bridge.

PRO TIPUse your picking hand position to shape dynamics — pick closer to the neck for the soft arpeggiated intro, then migrate toward the bridge as the song builds intensity. Page's tone on this track lives in the fingertip attack, not the amp settings.

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