Higher Ground amp settings — Line 6 Amplifi 150
The Red Hot Chili Peppers guitar tone for “Higher Ground”, dialed in for a Line 6 Amplifi 150 with a Ibanez SR800. Studio version, Mother's Milk (1989) — signature slap bass intro/main riff
Spector NS-2 with active EMG P/J pickups + Gallien-Krueger 800RB into 4x10 cab, mixed with studio compression and envelope filter/envelope follower (Tron-style auto-wah)
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 4 |
| Bass | 6 |
| Mid | 8 |
| Treble | 7 |
| Reverb | 0 |
| Master | 6 |
01Tron Up (Onboard Envelope Filter Block)
Line 6 onboard Tron filter block — set sensitivity so harder slaps open the filter completely
02Red Comp (Onboard Compressor Block)
Controls slap peaks and balances the filter attack
The Amplifi 150 utilizes Line 6 POD XT/HD modeling architecture, so we engage the onboard 'Tron Up' envelope filter and compression blocks directly before the clean, punchy California bass amp model. The active EMG-style P/J configuration on your Ibanez SR800 matches Flea's Spector NS-2 output profile, needing only a slight boost around 1.5kHz via the treble/mid knobs to mirror the Gallien-Krueger slap bite. The Amplifi 150 faceplate lacks a presence knob, so presence is null. Verse breakdown: dig in lightly or pull the bass volume slightly back to reduce the filter sweep width.
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