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Texas flood amp settings — Fender Blues Junior IV

The Stevie Ray Vaughan guitar tone for “Texas flood”, dialed in for a Fender Blues Junior IV with a Fender stratocaster American Standard. Live at El Mocambo (1983) — Solo / Lead tone

Original rig

1962/63 Fender Stratocaster 'Number One' (neck pickup) -> Ibanez TS9 / TS808 Tube Screamer -> 1964 Fender Vibroverbs + Dumbleland / Super Reverb

Thick, punchy mid-pushed blues lead with singing sustain and glassy top-end bite

Amp settings — Fender Blues Junior IV

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Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	3
Bass	6
Mid	7
Treble	6
Reverb	2
Master	7

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Guitar

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Signal chain

01Ibanez Tube Screamer TS808

Used as a clean/mid boost to push the front of the amp into vocal saturation

Overdrive 3 · Tone 5 · Level 9

Why these settings

The Blues Junior IV has an EL84 power section with strong mids compared to SRV's 6L6/solid-state-rectified Fender Vibroverbs. Per the double-gain rule, the amp's preamp Gain is capped at 3 with 'Fat' switch off while the TS808 acts as the primary push with high Level and low Drive. Mid is dialed to 7 to replicate the vocal low-mid bloom of a 15-inch speaker.

PRO TIPSRV tuned to Eb Standard and used heavy strings (.013–.058); strike aggressively near the neck pickup using the rounded shoulder of a heavy pick to get the signature percussive snap and blooming sustain.

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