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Still Loving You amp settings — Marshall 15mg

The Scorpions guitar tone for “Still Loving You”, dialed in for a Marshall 15mg with a Jackson Js11. Studio version, Love at First Sting (1984)

Original rig

Marshall JCM800 head, Gibson Flying V (Schenker) / Gibson Explorer (Jabs) with passive humbuckers, Boss DS-1 for lead boost, Boss CH-1 chorus on cleans

Warm, shimmering clean arpeggios in verses; mid-forward driven crunch with singing sustain on the solo

Amp settings — Marshall 15mg

CHANNELClean (for verses) / Overdrive (for solo)

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

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Boss DS-1 Distortion

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Essential for the lead solo sustain and boost. For verses, bypass this pedal and use clean amp settings.

Tone 5 · Level 6 · Dist 4

02Boss CH-1 Super Chorus

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Adds the 80s shimmer to the clean arpeggios. Bypass for lead sections.

E.Level 6 · EQ 5 · Rate 3 · Depth 5

Why these settings

The MG15 is a solid-state practice amp with limited headroom and a brighter, thinner voicing than a JCM800. I dropped treble to 5 (original was 6-7) to compensate for the MG's inherent brightness and raised mids to 6 to recover the body the JCM800 delivers naturally. Your Jackson JS11 has ceramic humbuckers with similar output to the original Gibsons, so no gain compensation needed there. Without a DS-1, you can push the OD channel gain to 6 for the solo, but it will lack the singing sustain—the DS-1 is the missing piece.

PRO TIPFor the iconic verse arpeggios, use your neck pickup with tone rolled to 7, pick over the neck joint with the fleshy part of your thumb brushing the strings—this softens the attack and gets that warm, choir-like quality Schenker nails on the record.

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