Live wire amp settings — Boss Katana 100 MkII

The Mötley Crüe guitar tone for “Live wire”, dialed in for a Boss Katana 100 MkII with a Epiphone Les Paul custom. Studio version, Too Fast for Love (1981)

Original rig

1970s Gibson Les Paul Custom, Marshall JCM800 2203 / Super Lead 100W, Eventide H910 Harmonizer (micro-detune doubling in studio)

Raw, buzzy, aggressive early 80s US metal crunch with boosted upper-mids and sharp pick bite

Amp settings — Boss Katana 100 MkII

CHANNELBrown amp typeBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	5
Mid	8
Treble	7
Presence	6
Reverb	2
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Why these settings

The Katana 100 MkII's Brown channel perfectly mirrors Mick Mars' hot-rodded Marshall 2203 preamp architecture. We push the midrange to 8 and presence to 6 to recreate the raw, cutting upper-mid aggression of the 1981 Leathür Records master without getting muddy. Your Epiphone Les Paul Custom provides the exact mahogany/humbucker foundation Mars used, so gain is kept at 7 to maintain string definition on the fast eighth-note downstrokes.

PRO TIPLive Wire relies on strict, aggressive palm-muted downpicking right near the bridge saddles—dig in hard with a stiff pick (1.0mm+) to produce that percussive, machine-gun attack.

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