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Cigarettes & Alcohol (Live at Manchester Academy) amp settings — Vox VT40X

The Oasis guitar tone for “Cigarettes & Alcohol (Live at Manchester Academy)”, dialed in for a Vox VT40X with a ESP LTD EC-256. Live at Manchester Academy (mid-90s tour era) — Marshall JCM 900 stack with Les Paul, rawer and more aggressive than studio cut

Original rig

Marshall JCM 900 100W head into 4x12 cabs, Gibson Les Paul (Cherry Sunburst with open-coil bridge pickup), Ibanez TS-9 Tubescreamer, Boss DD-3 Delay

Crunchy British rock distortion with aggressive upper-mids, T.Rex glam stomp, raw and in-your-face

Amp settings — Vox VT40X

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Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	6
Mid	9
Treble	7
Presence	6
Reverb	2
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Why these settings

Your VT40X's UK Rock/Metal models nail the JCM 900 snarl. Mids pushed to 9 because the EC-256's humbuckers are already warmer than Noel's open-coil Les Paul pickups — this compensates and keeps the bark present. Treble at 7 instead of 8-10 because your LTD's ceramic pickups have more high-end bite than vintage PAFs. No pedals needed — the amp model provides the gain stage.

PRO TIPDig in hard with your pick near the bridge and use aggressive downstrokes on the main riff — the T.Rex swagger of this tone comes from attack dynamics, not settings. Roll your guitar volume to 7 during verses for slight cleanup, then slam it back to 10 for choruses.

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