Guitar and bass tone settings for songs
Amp settings for 199 song pages, grouped by artist. Each page gives the settings for the reference amps, the original gear with its sources where it is documented, and why it sounds like that.
Settings by amp
Each amp page lists every song's main settings on that amp, artist by artist, with a link to the full page.
AC/DC
- Back In Black guitar
- Back In Black bass
- Hells Bells guitar
- Highway To Hell guitar
- Thunderstruck guitar
Aerosmith
- Dream On guitar
Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan
Alice in Chains
- Nutshell bass
- Rooster bass
- Rotten Apple bass
Arctic Monkeys
- Do I Wanna Know? guitar
- Do I Wanna Know? bass
- Fluorescent Adolescent bass
- R U Mine? guitar
- R U Mine? bass
Audioslave
- Like A Stone bass
Avenged Sevenfold
- Hail To The King guitar
- Nightmare guitar
- Unholy Confessions guitar
Ben E. King
- Stand By Me bass
Black Sabbath
Bon Jovi
- Livin' On A Prayer guitar
- Livin' On A Prayer bass
Chic
- Good Times bass
Chuck Berry
- Johnny B. Goode guitar
Cream
- Sunshine Of Your Love guitar
- Sunshine Of Your Love bass
Death
- Crystal Mountain bass
Deep Purple
- Smoke On The Water guitar
- Smoke On The Water bass
Deftones
- My Own Summer (Shove It) guitar
- My Own Summer (Shove It) bass
Derek and the Dominos
- Layla guitar
Dire Straits
- Sultans Of Swing guitar
- Sultans Of Swing bass
Eagles
- Hotel California guitar
- Hotel California bass
Earth, Wind & Fire
- September bass
Eric Clapton
- Tears In Heaven guitar
Fleetwood Mac
- The Chain bass
Foo Fighters
Franz Ferdinand
- Take Me Out bass
Gorillaz
- Feel Good Inc. guitar
- Feel Good Inc. bass
Green Day
- American Idiot guitar
- Basket Case guitar
- Boulevard Of Broken Dreams guitar
- Holiday guitar
- Holiday bass
- Longview bass
- Wake Me Up When September Ends guitar
Guns N' Roses
- November Rain guitar
- Sweet Child O' Mine guitar
- Sweet Child O' Mine bass
- Welcome To The Jungle guitar
Iron Maiden
- Phantom Of The Opera bass
- The Trooper guitar
- The Trooper bass
John Denver
Journey
- Don't Stop Believin' bass
Judas Priest
- Breaking The Law guitar
King Buffalo
- Grifter bass
Led Zeppelin
- Ramble On bass
- Stairway to Heaven guitar
Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Free Bird guitar
- Sweet Home Alabama guitar
Marilyn Manson
Megadeth
- Holy Wars... The Punishment Due guitar
- Peace Sells bass
- Symphony Of Destruction guitar
- Tornado of Souls guitar
Metallica
- Creeping Death guitar
- Enter Sandman guitar
- Enter Sandman bass
- Fade to Black guitar
- Fade to Black bass
- For Whom The Bell Tolls guitar
- For Whom The Bell Tolls bass
- Master of Puppets guitar
- Master of Puppets bass
- Nothing Else Matters guitar
- Nothing Else Matters bass
- One guitar
- One bass
- Orion guitar
- Orion bass
- Ride The Lightning guitar
- Sad But True guitar
- Seek & Destroy guitar
- Seek & Destroy bass
- The Unforgiven guitar
- Welcome Home (Sanitarium) guitar
- Wherever I May Roam guitar
Michael Jackson
- Beat It guitar
- Beat It bass
- Billie Jean guitar
- Billie Jean bass
Muse
- Hysteria guitar
- Hysteria bass
- Plug In Baby bass
- Supermassive Black Hole bass
- Time Is Running Out bass
Nirvana
- Come As You Are guitar
- Come As You Are bass
- Heart-Shaped Box guitar
- In Bloom guitar
- In Bloom bass
- Lounge Act bass
- Smells Like Teen Spirit guitar
- Smells Like Teen Spirit bass
- The Man Who Sold The World guitar
Oasis
- Wonderwall guitar
Ozzy Osbourne
- Crazy Train guitar
- Crazy Train bass
Pantera
- Cemetery Gates guitar
- Cowboys From Hell guitar
- Walk guitar
Papa Roach
- Last Resort guitar
Paramore
- Still Into You bass
Pink Floyd
- Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2 guitar
- Comfortably Numb guitar
- Comfortably Numb bass
- Money guitar
- Money bass
- Wish You Were Here guitar
Pixies
- Where Is My Mind? guitar
- Where Is My Mind? bass
Queen
- Another One Bites the Dust guitar
- Another One Bites the Dust bass
- Bohemian Rhapsody guitar
- Bohemian Rhapsody bass
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
- Bombtrack bass
- Killing in the Name guitar
- Killing in the Name bass
- Know Your Enemy bass
Rammstein
- Sonne guitar
Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Aeroplane bass
- Around The World bass
- Californication guitar
- Californication bass
- Can't Stop guitar
- Can't Stop bass
- Dani California bass
- Dark Necessities bass
- Otherside guitar
- Otherside bass
- Snow (Hey Oh) guitar
- Soul To Squeeze bass
- Under The Bridge guitar
- Under The Bridge bass
Rush
- Tom Sawyer bass
- YYZ bass
Sade
- Smooth Operator bass
Scorpions
- Still Loving You guitar
Slayer
- Raining Blood guitar
Slipknot
- Psychosocial guitar
Stevie Wonder
- Sir Duke bass
Sting
- Shape Of My Heart bass
Stone Temple Pilots
- Interstate Love Song bass
- Plush bass
System of a Down
- Aerials guitar
- Chop Suey! guitar
- Lonely Day guitar
- Toxicity guitar
Talking Heads
- Psycho Killer bass
Tame Impala
The Animals
- The House Of The Rising Sun guitar
The Beatles
- Blackbird guitar
- Come Together guitar
- Come Together bass
- I Want You (She's So Heavy) bass
- Something bass
The Cranberries
The Cure
- Boys Don't Cry bass
The Jackson 5
- I Want You Back bass
The Killers
- Mr. Brightside bass
The Police
- Every Breath You Take guitar
The Warning
- DISCIPLE bass
The White Stripes
- Seven Nation Army guitar
- Seven Nation Army bass
Three Days Grace
- Animal I Have Become guitar
- Animal I Have Become bass
Tool
- Forty Six & 2 bass
- Pneuma bass
- Schism guitar
- Schism bass
- The Pot bass
Vulfpeck
- Dean Town bass
Yes
- Roundabout bass
Photographs: “Oz Noy's Pedalboard, 2011-02-01”, ArtBrom from Seattle, CC BY-SA 2.0; “A close view of a vintage guitar amplifier”, Shixart1985, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
