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She's Gone amp settings — EVH 5150III 100W

The Steelheart guitar tone for “She's Gone”, dialed in for a EVH 5150III 100W with a Yamaha Pacifica012. Studio version, Steelheart (1990 debut album) — Signature heavy lead and crunch tone

Original rig

Marshall JCM800 2210 (channel switching), Ibanez RG with stock humbuckers, studio rack chorus and delay/reverb

Saturated 80s hard rock crunch with thick mids and singing lead sustain
Amp settings — EVH 5150III 100W
CHANNELBlue (Crunch) Channel
GAIN 6 BASS 5 MID 7 TREBLE 6 PRESENCE 6 MASTER 4
KnobSetting (0–10)
Gain6
Bass5
Mid7
Treble6
Presence6
Master4
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Guitar
PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10
Signal chain

01Analog Chorus (e.g. Boss CE-2W / MXR Analog Chorus)

RECOMMENDED — not owned (place in FX loop for classic 80s ballad chorus spread)

Rate 4 · Depth 6

02Digital Delay (e.g. Boss DD-3 / DD-8)

RECOMMENDED — not owned (place in FX loop set to ~420ms for soaring lead sustain)

E.Level 4 · F.Back 5 · D.Time 6
Why these settings

The EVH 5150III Blue channel has more native compression and bottom end than Chris Risola's Marshall JCM800 2210, so keep bass at 5 and push the mids to 7 to recreate that biting British upper-mid push. Gain is dialed to 6 because the 5150 preamp saturates far earlier than a classic JCM800. For the clean intro verse: switch to the Green (Clean) channel, select the neck+middle single-coil position on your Pacifica, and roll volume back to 8.

PRO TIPSet the 5150III rear-panel Resonance knob to 5 to keep the low-end punch tight and focused without tubbiness when digging into the aggressive bridge-pickup vibrato.

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