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lenny amp settings — NUX MG-300

The Stevie Ray Vaughan guitar tone for “lenny”, dialed in for a NUX MG-300 with a Squier Bullet Stratocaster. Studio version, Texas Flood (1983)

Original rig

Fender Stratocaster 'Lenny' (neck pickup), Fender Super Reverb 4x10 or Vibrolux Reverb at low clean volume, Ibanez TS808 (bypassed), subtle chorus

Warm, glassy clean with neck-pickup bloom, fingerpicked dynamics, gentle spring reverb, intimate and vocal

Amp settings — NUX MG-300

CHANNELFender Twin Reverb model (or closest Fender Blackface/Silverface clean model)BRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	5
Mid	6
Treble	5
Presence	4
Reverb	4

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE8 VOLUME8

Signal chain

01NUX MG-300 Chorus Block

Subtle analog chorus, barely noticeable — adds dimension without warble

Rate 3 · Depth 3 · Mix 2

Why these settings

The MG-300's Fender Twin model is the closest match to SRV's Super Reverb clean platform. Gain stays very low (2) because this is a genuinely clean tone — SRV ran his amp at room volume for this track. Mid pushed slightly (6) compensates for the Squier's slightly brighter ceramic pickups vs SRV's Texas Special-style magnets. Treble dropped 1 from original (5 vs 6) because the MG-300's Fender models can get icy in the high end.

PRO TIPRoll your tone knob to 8 and volume to 8 — SRV used the guitar's controls to soften the attack and add sag. Fingerpick with your thumb on bass notes and index/middle on treble strings; let open strings ring into each other. Half-step down tuning (Eb) is mandatory for the correct voicings and string tension.

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