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Where did you sleep last night amp settings — Vox VT40X

The Nirvana guitar tone for “Where did you sleep last night”, dialed in for a Vox VT40X with a Epiphone SG Standard. Live on MTV Unplugged in New York (1993)

Original rig

1959 Martin D-18E (Bartolini 3AV magnetic soundhole pickup) into Fender Twin Reverb amp

Warm, woody magnetic acoustic clean with gritty edge-of-breakup bite on hard strums

Amp settings — Vox VT40X

CHANNELDELUXE CL (Fender Blackface Clean model)BRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	4
Bass	6
Mid	5
Treble	5
Reverb	2
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE7 VOLUME9

Why these settings

The DELUXE CL amp model on the VT40X emulates the clean Fender headroom of Kurt's Twin Reverb while letting you dial just enough gain to break up on aggressive strums. To compensate for the solid-body humbuckers of the SG versus Kurt's acoustic-electric Bartolini pickup, the neck pickup is used with tone rolled down to 7 to round off magnetic bite and restore low-end acoustic warmth. A touch of onboard room reverb captures the natural ambient acoustics of the Sony Music Studios stage.

PRO TIPStrum softly near the neck during the intro and verses for an airy acoustic response, then dig in aggressively near the bridge during the climactic vocal build to force the amp model into subtle, dynamic tube grit.

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