Something amp settings — Positive Grid Spark 40
The The beatles guitar tone for “Something”, dialed in for a Positive Grid Spark 40 with a Harley benton 335 335. Studio version, Abbey Road (1969) - Lead Solo
1957 Gibson Les Paul ('Lucy') into a Fender Twin Reverb/Bassman routed through a Leslie 122 rotating speaker cabinet
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 5 |
| Bass | 5 |
| Mid | 6 |
| Treble | 5 |
| Reverb | 3 |
| Master | 7 |
01Compressor (LA Comp block)
Provides sustained, singing note decay without modern high-gain fuzz
02Overdrive (Vintage OD block)
Mild push into the amp to replicate the natural edge-of-breakup saturation
03Modulation (Vibrato / Rotary block)
Essential for replicating the Abbey Road Leslie 122 rotating speaker swirl
04Reverb (Studio Plate block)
Replicates the Abbey Road studio acoustic space
The semi-hollow Harley Benton 335 with humbuckers naturally delivers warm lower-mids similar to George Harrison's Les Paul, but rolling the guitar tone back to 7 smooths the attack for that iconic vocal quality. The Spark's Black Duo amp model stays clean, so the Vintage OD block is dialed low to provide the exact tube push without masking the rotary modulation. Modulation speed is set moderate to match the Leslie 122 cabinet's slow rotor sweep on the master take.
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