Your love amp settings — Blackstar DEBUT-15E-B

The The Outfield guitar tone for “Your love”, dialed in for a Blackstar DEBUT-15E-B with a Ibanez GRX40-BKN. Studio version, Play Deep album (1985), recorded at AIR Studios London

Original rig

Fender Stratocaster/Telecaster → Marshall JCM800, mic'd with Neumann U87 through Neve desk. Minimal effects: amp reverb, stereo chorus on some rhythm tracks.

Bright, jangly clean-to-edge-of-breakup crunch with chimey single-coil clarity and subtle room ambience

Amp settings — Blackstar DEBUT-15E-B

CHANNELCrunch (OD1)BOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	4
Bass	4
Mid	7
Treble	6
Presence	0
Reverb	3
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge+middle TONE7 VOLUME10

Why these settings

Original JCM800 has aggressive upper-mids around 2-3kHz; your Blackstar's ISF should be set fully clockwise (British voicing) to approximate this. Your Ibanez humbuckers are hotter and darker than Spinks' single-coils, so I've cut bass to 4 and pushed mids to 7 to recover that jangly clarity. Gain stays moderate—the original tone is clean with just edge-of-breakup grit, not saturated.

PRO TIPUse the bridge+middle position and pick closer to the bridge with light attack to get that snappy, chimey 80s pop-rock articulation—Spinks' tone relies heavily on pick dynamics and hand position rather than amp gain.

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