Cold Shot amp settings — Line 6 POD400
The Stevie Ray Vaughan guitar tone for “Cold Shot”, dialed in for a Line 6 POD400 with a Epiphone Les Paul Standard 50s. Studio version, Couldn't Stand the Weather (1984)
1963 Fender Stratocaster 'Number One' -> Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer -> 1964 Fender Vibroverb / Dumble Steel String Singer -> Fender Vibratone rotating speaker (with Roland Dimension D in mix)
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 4 |
| Bass | 5 |
| Mid | 6 |
| Treble | 7 |
| Presence | 6 |
| Reverb | 3 |
| Master | 7 |
01Screamer (TS9 Block)
Clean boost into amp block to tighten low end and add mid-push
02Rotary Drum/Horn (Leslie/Vibratone Block)
Placed post-amp/pre-reverb to emulate SRV's Fender Vibratone cabinet
Because you are using humbuckers on a Les Paul instead of single coils, we use the middle (both pickups) position and roll guitar volume back to 8 to avoid muddying the low end. We compensate for the thicker humbucker output by pulling the amp bass to 5, raising treble to 7, and running the Screamer model as a clean boost (Drive 2, Level 8) to shape the signature SRV mid-spike.
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