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De Música Ligera amp settings — Sunset Tg-15

The Soda Stereo guitar tone for “De Música Ligera”, dialed in for a Sunset Tg-15 with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Studio version, Canción Animal (1990) — Main riff and rhythm chords

Original rig

Fender Electric XII / Jackson Soloist into Marshall JCM800 & Vox AC30 blend with Boss SD-1 overdrive and subtle chorus/reverb

Punchy, jangly 90s alt-rock power-chord crunch with British upper-mid bite

Amp settings — Sunset Tg-15

CHANNELClean channel (Cuvave/M-Vave Cube Baby serves as preamp/dirt)BOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	5
Treble	5
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE9 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Cube Baby (Amp Preamp / Drive Block)

Select British/Marshall preamp model; acts as the primary crunch gain source

Gain 6 · Tone 7 · Volume 6

02Cube Baby (Modulation Block)

Select Chorus mode for subtle width and jangle on the open power chords

Mix 3 · Rate 4

03Cube Baby (Space / Reverb Block)

Select Reverb mode to simulate the Criteria Studios room ambience

Mix 3 · Decay 3

Why these settings

The Sunset TG-15 is a basic solid-state practice amp with minimal EQ, so keep it transparent on its clean channel and let the Cube Baby handle the British crunch voicing and spatial effects. Single coils on the Player Strat provide the natural top-end jangle of Cerati's 12-string tracking, while the Cube Baby's gain set to 6 supplies the necessary JCM800 mid-gain grit. Roll the Strat bridge tone knob back slightly to 9 to prevent the bridge pickup from sounding shrill through the small speaker.

PRO TIPUse an aggressive, wide downstroke attack across the open D and B strings on the Bm-G-D-A progression to replicate the chime and punch of the original blended tracking.

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