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Corazón Espinado (feat. Maná) amp settings — Boss GT-1

The Santana guitar tone for “Corazón Espinado (feat. Maná)”, dialed in for a Boss GT-1 with a Yamaha Rgx 620z. Studio album version, Supernatural (1999)

Original rig

PRS Santana Signature / Custom 24 + Mesa/Boogie Mark I / Dumble Overdrive Special + Mu-Tron / TS9 (clean boost) + studio plate reverb

Warm, singing, thick mid-heavy lead tone with long sustain and rolled-off high end

Amp settings — Boss GT-1

CHANNELBG LEAD (Mesa Boogie Mark series lead model)BRIGHToffBOOSTon

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	5
Mid	8
Treble	4
Presence	3
Reverb	5
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE6 VOLUME9

Signal chain

01T-SCREAM (OD/DS block)

Used as a clean mid-boost into the BG Lead amp block

Drive 2 · Tone 4 · Level 8

02DELAY (Delay block)

Subtle warm analog-style delay for spatial depth

E.Level 3 · F.Back 4 · D.Time 5

03PLATE (Reverb block)

Smooth studio plate reverb emulation

Level 5 · Tone 4 · Time 6

Why these settings

The Boss GT-1 BG LEAD model captures Carlos Santana's signature Mesa Boogie Mark I midrange bark and compressed sustain. Because your Yamaha RGX 620Z humbuckers have a modern upper-mid bite, rolling down treble to 4, presence to 3, and your guitar tone knob to 6 recreates the iconic vocal 'woman tone'. The onboard T-SCREAM block adds the focused mid-push necessary for endless singing sustain without getting flubby.

PRO TIPFlip to the neck pickup and roll the tone knob down to around 5–6; pick with the meat of your thumb or pick slightly angled near the 12th fret to produce Santana's rounded, fluty flute-like attack.

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