Ain't talkin bout love amp settings — Fender Blues Junior IV

The Van halen guitar tone for “Ain't talkin bout love”, dialed in for a Fender Blues Junior IV with a Fender American Professional II Stratocaster. Studio version, Van Halen (1978) — main opening riff and rhythm track

The Blues Junior IV is a bright, naturally mid-scooped clean-to-crunch Fender platform lacking Marshall-style EL34 high gain, so the owned Boss DS-2 acts as the dedicated gain source into the amp dialed clean at gain 3 with the FAT boost disabled. Amp mids are pushed hard to 8 while treble is pulled down to 5 and the Strat bridge tone is rolled back to 8 to compensate for single-coil shrillness against EVH's PAF humbucker. If you acquire a flanger later, place it before the DS-2 to get Eddie's raw front-of-amp jet-sweep saturation.

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