Black Sabbath guitar and bass tones and amp settings
Settings for 7 Black Sabbath song pages: Iron Man, N.I.B., Paranoid and War Pigs. Each page has the knob values for the reference amps and, where a source documents it, the gear on the record.
The amps on the records
- Iron Man (guitar): Tony Iommi, Laney Supergroup MK 1 head
Each song page cites the source for its gear.
Song pages
Each page has every knob for the reference amps, the parts that change, and the gear on the record. The knobs here show its main amp settings.
- Iron Man (Black Sabbath) guitar toneOn a BOSS Katana 50 Gen 3
- Iron Man (Black Sabbath) bass toneOn a Fender Rumble 40 V3
- N.I.B. (Black Sabbath) bass toneOn a Fender Rumble 40 V3
- Paranoid (Black Sabbath) guitar toneOn a BOSS Katana 50 Gen 3
- Paranoid (Black Sabbath) bass toneOn a Fender Rumble 40 V3
- War Pigs (Black Sabbath) guitar toneOn a BOSS Katana 50 Gen 3
- War Pigs (Black Sabbath) bass toneOn a Fender Rumble 40 V3
Photographs: “Close-up view of guitar strings showcasing details”, Shixart1985, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
