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Smooth (feat. Rob Thomas) amp settings — Fender Twin Reverb

The Santana guitar tone for “Smooth (feat. Rob Thomas)”, dialed in for a Fender Twin Reverb with a Fender Jimi Hendrix Stratocaster. Studio cut, Supernatural (1999)

Original rig

PRS Santana Signature + Mesa/Boogie Mark I / Mark IIC+ Lead Channel + Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9 + analog delay / plate reverb

Thick, singing, warm lead tone with infinite sustain, rounded top end, and strong low-mid presence

Amp settings — Fender Twin Reverb

CHANNELVibrato (or Normal) ChannelBRIGHToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	6
Mid	8
Treble	4
Reverb	0
Master	4

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Jim Dunlop Cry Baby GCB95

Leave bypassed for main lead lines; kick on only for accented wah flourishes

02Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9

Used as a mid-hump pre-boost stacking into the OD-3 to emulate Mesa preamp compression

Drive 3 · Tone 4 · Level 8

03Boss OD-3 OverDrive

Primary high-gain engine providing the thick Mesa-style saturation into the clean Twin

Drive 8 · Tone 3 · Level 5

04Boss RV-6 Reverb

Set Mode to Plate (or Spring) for Santana's studio ambience

Level 4 · Tone 4 · Time 5 · Mode 4

Why these settings

A Fender Twin Reverb has high headroom and a naturally scooped EQ, whereas Santana's original Mesa Mark series is extremely mid-heavy and compressed. To adapt your single-coil Strat and clean Twin, the OD-3 provides the primary saturated drive, the TS9 acts as a mid-push booster in front of it, and the amp's Treble is dropped while Mids are pushed to 8. Rolling your Strat's neck tone knob to 7 rounds off single-coil glass to mimic Santana's fat humbucker voice.

PRO TIPUse the neck pickup with the tone rolled down to 6–7 and pick with the fleshy edge of your thumb or pick slightly over the 15th-to-17th frets to get that signature fluty, violin-like attack.

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