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(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction amp settings — M vave Tank mini

The The Rolling Stones guitar tone for “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction”, dialed in for a M vave Tank mini with a Yamaha Revstar RSS20. Studio single / Out of Our Heads (1965), recorded at RCA Studios Hollywood

Original rig

1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard (with Bigsby) -> Gibson Maestro FZ-1 Fuzz-Tone -> Fender Showman / Twin Reverb

Raspy, mid-focused, brassy vintage 1960s Germanium fuzz with abrupt decay

Amp settings — M vave Tank mini

CHANNELClean amp model (US Clean / Fender style) + 1x12 IRBRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	5
Mid	6
Treble	5
Reverb	0
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Vintage Fuzz (Maestro FZ-1 emulation)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned; select built-in Fuzz/Drive block in Tank Mini or add a 60s FZ-1/Fuzz Face clone

Fuzz / Attack 8 · Volume 7

Why these settings

Keith achieved the iconic saxophone-mimicking tone using the historic Gibson Maestro FZ-1 into a clean studio amp. Because the Revstar RSS20 has modern, slightly hotter humbuckers than vintage PAFs, roll the guitar tone back slightly to tame excess treble bite. Keep the Tank Mini amp model on a clean Fender-style voice with low preamp gain (2) to let the buzzy square-wave fuzz do 100% of the distortion without muddying up.

PRO TIPPick firmly right near the bridge with downstrokes and mute immediately between the riff notes—the original Maestro FZ-1 had a naturally gated, spitty decay that gave the line its punchy horn-section phrasing.

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