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Riveria Paradise amp settings — Crate GX15

The Stevie Ray Vaughn guitar tone for “Riveria Paradise”, dialed in for a Crate GX15 with a Ibanez GIO GRGR221PA. Studio version, In Step (1989)

Original rig

1963/64 Fender Stratocaster ('Lenny' with maple neck) into Dumble Steel String Singer & Fender Vibroverb / Super Reverb (pristine clean platform)

Warm, glassy, dynamic jazz-blues clean with smooth top-end and rich low-mids

Amp settings — Crate GX15

CHANNELCleanBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Bass	7
Mid	6
Treble	5
Master	4

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE7 VOLUME8

Why these settings

The Crate GX15 has a simple Clean channel (Level, Low, Mid, High) with no Gain, Presence, or Reverb knobs, so unrepresented controls are set to null. To soften the hotter, darker output of the Ibanez GIO humbuckers compared to SRV's single-coil 'Lenny' Strat, keep the amp's High control at 5 and roll the guitar's tone and volume knobs down slightly for warm, touch-sensitive clean headroom.

PRO TIPSRV tuned down a half-step to Eb and used heavy finger-and-thumb hybrid picking with subtle vibrato bar dips to get the singing, liquid sustain on clean chords.

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