Lenny amp settings — Peavey Classic 30
The SRV guitar tone for “Lenny”, dialed in for a Peavey Classic 30 with a Gibson Les Paul Studio. Studio version, Texas Flood album (1983)
Guitar: Fender Stratocaster 'Lenny' (1963/64 body, maple neck, stock single-coil pickups, Eb tuning, neck pickup, volume rolled to 7-8). Amp: 1964 Fender Vibroverb (15" speaker, César Díaz modded) or Fender Super Reverb 4x10 — both blackface Fender clean platforms with spring reverb engaged.
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 3 |
| Bass | 6 |
| Mid | 6 |
| Treble | 5 |
| Presence | 4 |
| Reverb | 6 |
| Master | 5 |
Your Peavey Classic 30 is an EL84-based amp with more midrange bite than the scooped blackface Fender Vibroverb. Treble dropped from 6.5 to 5 and presence from 5 to 4 to tame the Classic 30's brighter upper-mids. Your Les Paul's humbuckers are hotter and darker than SRV's single-coil Strat — gain reduced to 3 (from 5) to keep clean headroom, and rolling your tone knob to 7 approximates the softer attack SRV got from his neck single-coil. Bass stays at 6 to preserve warmth despite the humbucker's fuller low-end.
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