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Dead Flowers amp settings — Line 6 Pod go

The The Rolling Stones guitar tone for “Dead Flowers”, dialed in for a Line 6 Pod go with a Epiphone Les Paul Classic. Studio version, Sticky Fingers (1971), recorded at Olympic Studios, London

Original rig

Keith Richards: Fender Telecaster into Fender Twin Reverb (clean with slight edge). Mick Taylor: Gibson Les Paul into Ampeg SVT or Marshall. Both with minimal effects - studio compression and natural room ambience.

Warm, slightly breaking clean with country-rock twang on rhythm; smooth, vocal lead tone with blues-inflected sustain

Amp settings — Line 6 Pod go

CHANNELUS Deluxe Nrm (Fender Deluxe Reverb model) for rhythm / Brit J-45 Nrm (Marshall JTM45 model) for lead soloBRIGHToffBOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE7 VOLUME8

Signal chain

01Kinky Boost (EP Booster style) — for lead solo only

Engage only for Mick Taylor solo section to push amp into smooth sustain

Gain 4 · Level 6

02Simple Delay (tape-style)

Subtle slapback for country-rock depth — keep it low in mix

Time 3 · Feedback 2 · Mix 2

Why these settings

Your Les Paul's humbuckers are warmer and hotter than Richards' Telecaster, so I rolled tone knob to 7 and volume to 8 to reduce output and restore twang. The US Deluxe model on Pod Go nails the Fender clean-edge sound. Gain stays low (3) because this is a clean-platform tone — the grit comes from pick attack, not preamp saturation.

PRO TIPUse a light pick (0.60-0.73mm) and dig into the strings near the bridge with a slight palm mute release on the downbeats — this is how Richards gets that percussive country-rock chunk without relying on amp gain.

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