Purple Rain amp settings — M-Vave Tank G
The Prince & The Revolution guitar tone for “Purple Rain”, dialed in for a M-Vave Tank G with a Gibson Les Paul Standard 60s. Studio album cut / First Avenue live tracking, Purple Rain (1984) — iconic outro lead solo tone
Hohner MadCat Telecaster / Cloud Guitar -> Boss SD-1 / Boss DS-1 -> Mesa/Boogie Mark II head into Bag End D12-M cab -> Boss DM-2 Delay & Boss BF-2 Flanger
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 3 |
| Bass | 5 |
| Mid | 7 |
| Treble | 4 |
| Reverb | 3 |
| Master | 6 |
01Tank G Overdrive/Distortion Module (OD mode / SD-1 Style)
Used as the main high-gain drive source in front of the amp model
02Tank G Delay Module (Analog / DM-2 style)
Set to roughly 350ms for singing sustain on the solo
Prince got his cutting high-end bite from single-coil Strat/Tele pickups on his Hohner MadCat into a Mesa Mark II. Because your Les Paul Standard 60s humbuckers are warmer and hotter, roll the guitar tone knob to 8, drop the amp treble to 4 to prevent mud-treble clash, and push the mids to 7 to retain the vocal lead cut. Amp gain is kept low at 3 on the Tank G clean/preamp setting so the overdrive module provides the smooth front-end clipping without double-gain mush.
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