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Free Bird amp settings — Roland Micro Cube

The Lynyrd Skynyrd guitar tone for “Free Bird”, dialed in for a Roland Micro Cube with a Squier Classic Vibe 50s Stratocaster. Studio version, (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) (1973) - Gary Rossington slide intro tone

Original rig

1961 Gibson Les Paul/SG Standard (PAF humbuckers) into Peavey Mace head with 4x12 cab (JBL speakers), glass Coricidin slide

Warm, singing slide clean-edge tone with smooth sustain and upper-mid clarity

Amp settings — Roland Micro Cube

CHANNELBRIT COMBO amp model (EFX: Off)

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	4
Reverb	3
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE7 VOLUME9

Why these settings

The Roland Micro Cube uses a single Tone knob rather than individual Bass/Mid/Treble controls, so set its Tone knob to 5 to maintain balanced warmth. Because your Stratocaster has brighter, lower-output single coils compared to Rossington's Gibson PAF humbuckers, select the neck pickup and roll the guitar tone knob down to 7 to round off the glassiness and add body. Set the amp model to 'Brit Combo' with Gain at 4 to replicate the subtle breakup and compression of a driven Peavey Mace.

PRO TIPGary tuned his G string down a whole step to F to achieve the famous opening slide double-stop voicing while fretting the remaining notes in standard tuning, and used a glass Coricidin medicine bottle slide for that smooth, vocal top-end sustain.

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