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Still Of The Night (2017 Remaster) amp settings — Positive grid Reactor 50

The Whitesnake guitar tone for “Still Of The Night (2017 Remaster)”, dialed in for a Positive grid Reactor 50 with a Ibanez Rg3ex1. Main rhythm riff, Whitesnake (1987) / 2017 Remaster

Original rig

1978 Gibson Les Paul Custom (Dirty Fingers humbuckers) into Jose Arredondo-modded Marshall JCM800 2203 heads and Mesa/Boogie cabinets

High-gain, aggressive British crunch with tight low-end chug and searing upper-mid harmonic bite

Amp settings — Positive grid Reactor 50

CHANNELOD / High Gain voice (British 800 / modded Marshall model)BRIGHToffBOOSTon

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Onboard Overdrive Block (TS-style boost)

Used as a clean front-end boost to tighten the low end and push the modded British amp voice into searing saturation.

Drive 2 · Tone 6 · Level 8

02Onboard Noise Gate Block

Essential to clamp the diode-style high-gain chug between staccato riff hits.

Threshold 6 · Decay 3

Why these settings

John Sykes' modded JCM800 had an added diode clipping stage that created extraordinary compression and upper-mid bite. On the Spark/Reactor platform, using a British high-gain model pushed by an onboard overdrive block replicates that Jose Arredondo mod without flubbing out. The Ibanez RG3EX1 passive high-output humbuckers match the aggressive output of Sykes' Dirty Fingers well, needing only a slight mid push to nail the vocal harmonic sustain. Clean breakdown section: bypass the OD block, switch to neck pickup with volume rolled back to 6.

PRO TIPDig in with a heavy pick right next to the bridge saddles and catch natural pinch harmonics on the low-string vibrato releases to recreate John Sykes' signature aggressive attack.

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