Black Magic Woman amp settings — Zoom G5n
The Santana guitar tone for “Black Magic Woman”, dialed in for a Zoom G5n with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Studio album cut, Abraxas (1970)
1968 Gibson Les Paul Custom (neck humbucker) into early Randall Smith modded Fender Princeton/Twin Reverb (Mesa Mark I prototype)
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 6 |
| Bass | 5 |
| Mid | 8 |
| Treble | 4 |
| Presence | 3 |
| Reverb | 3 |
| Master | 7 |
01TS Drive (Zoom G5n)
Mid-focus clean boost pushing the MK1 amp model
02Spring (Zoom G5n)
Subtle vintage studio plate/spring ambience
To compensate for your Stratocaster's brighter, lower-output single coils against Santana's Les Paul neck humbucker, the amp treble is rolled back to 4 while mids are pushed to 8. The TS Drive block adds the critical mid-hump and extra sustain to give thin single coils the thick, singing body of a vintage humbucker. Rolling your Strat tone knob down to 6 eliminates any glassy ice-pick attack. Gypsy Queen outro: flip the guitar pickup selector to the bridge for the faster, brighter soloing section.
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