So I found a whole list of general settings for different guitar sounds. These are just the basics for the overall tone and not as in-depth as you may want. You can use these to give yourself a good starting point and then Google more info about the guitarist you’re trying to emulate and see what effects they use on top of the initial amp sound. Give ’em a try and see if it helps you!
Gee-tars!
Jimi Hendrix of Jimi Hendrix Experiance Gain – 4
Treble – 5
Mid – 5
Bass – 8
Reverb – 5
John Petrucci of Dream Theatre
1)Clean Channel:
Preamp Mode: Rhythm 1 Yellow
Gain: 6
Treble: 6.5
Middle: 3.5
Bass: 3
Lead 1 Drive: 0
Lead 2 Drive: 0
Master: 5.5
Presence: 8
Dynamic Voice: 7
Power Amps set on Deep And Modern
2)Main Distortion Channel:
Preamp Mode: Lead 1 Red
Gain: 6
Treble: 6
Middle: 6
Bass: 4.5
Lead 1 Drive: 4.5
Lead 2 Drive: 0
Master: 4
Presence: 6.5
Dynamic Voice: 6.5
Power Amps set on Deep And Modern
3)Lead Channel:
Preamp Mode: Lead 2 Yellow (MarkII Lead Sound)
Gain: 7.5
Treble: 4.5
Middle: 4
Bass: 5.5
Lead 1 Drive: 0
Lead 2 Drive: 6.5 Master: 6
Presence: 0
Dynamic Voice: 3
4)EFFECTS CHAIN:
Clean Sound – basic chorus sound
Lead Sound – 602 and 460 millisecond delay with 3 repeats
Crunch – 26 milliseconds delay
Tom Morello of Audioslave/Rage Against the Machine
Gain – 7
Treble – 10
Mid – 4
Bass – 4
Reverb – 0
Eric Clapton of Eric Clapton
Gain – 7
Teble – 5
Mid – 7
Bass – 7
Presence – 8
Mick Thompson of Slipknot
Gain – 9-10
Treble – 8
Mid – 7
Bass – 8
Reverb – 2
Note tuning of B F B E Gsharp Csharp (low to high)
Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin
Gain – 4
Treble – 8
Mid – 3
Bass – 7
Reverb – 2
Kurt Cobain of Nirvana
Gain – 7
Treble – 7
Mid – 4
Bass – 3
Reverb – 2
Eddie Van Halen of Van Halen
Gain – 6
Treble – 4
Mid – 3
Bass- 9
Reverb – 4
John Frusciante of Red Hot Chili Peppers
Gain – 4
Treble – 8
Mid – 2
Bass – 6
Reverb – 7
Kirk Hammet of Metallica
Gain – 7
Treble – 7
Mid – 2
Bass – 7
Reverb – 2
Keith Richards of Rolling Stones
Gain – 4.5
Treble – 4.5
Mid – 6.5
Bass – 5.5
Reverb – 1.5
Note use of open G tuning, D G D G B D (low to high)
The Edge of U2
Gain – 1.5
Treble – 7
Mid – 5
Bass – 3
Reverb – 8.5
Brian May of Queen
Gain – 8.5
Treble – 4
Mid – 9
Bass – 5.5
Reverb – 4
Note Brian famously uses old sixpences to pick the strings of his guitar.
Slash of Guns N’ Roses
Gain – 6.5
Treble – 4.5
Mid – 7
Bass – 7
Presence ? 8
Dimebag Darrel of Pantera
Gain – 7
Treble – 10
Mid – 4
Bass – 9
Reverb ? 0
Billie Joe Armstrong (newer) of Green Day
Drive – 6
Treble – 10
Mid – 8
Bass – 5
Reverb ? 3
Billie Joe Armstrong (older) of Green Day
Gain:9
Treble:10
Mid:8
Bass:5
Reverb:3
Dave Sullivan of Iron Maiden
Drive – 7
Treble – 9
Mid – 7
Bass – 4
Reverb – 0
Use your brigde humbucker – I find this tone to be excellent for Maiden – The Trooper, Hallowed especially
Gary Moore of Thin Lizzy
Bass 7
Treble 7
Mids 8-10
Gain 5-7 depends on song
Coutour at 3-4 not so high to suck the mids but not os low to sound crappy
maybe a splash of reverb
Neck pickup
Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters
Distortion:8
Treble:7
Middle:5
Bass:3
Reverb:3 (room)
Joe Walsh of Eagles
Treble: 7
Bass:3
Mid: 4
Master:3
Reverb:2
Presence:3
Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins
For songs like 1979:
Bass: 8
Mid: 7
High/Treble: 6
Pickup Position: 2 or 4 (Strat)
For heavier songs like Zero or Jellybelly:
Bass: 10
Mid: 4
High/Treble: 8
Use a thick heavy distortion with medium tone and a lot of sustain.
Angus Young of AC/DC
Gain – 5
Treble – 10
Mid – 10
Bass – 5
Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd
Treble – 5
Mid – 10
Bass – 5
Gain – 2-3
Mike McCready of Pearl Jam
Treble: 7
Mid: 7
Low: 5
Daron Malakian of System of a Down
Amp Used: Crate VFX5212
Gain: 8
Treble: 6-7
Mids: 3-5
Bass: 10
Presence: 8
Note the use of Drop D down 1/2 step (Db Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)
Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath
Gain – 7 or 8
Bass – 6
Middle – 6
Treble – 6
Channel – Overdrive
Kirk Hammett of Metallica
Gain – 9
Bass – 7
Mids – 2
Treble – 10
Reverb – 3
Channel – Distortion
Kirk Hammett 2 of Metallica
Gain – 7
Treble – 7
Mid – 2
Bass – 7
Reverb – 2
Channel – Distortion
Mick Mars of Motley Crue
Gain – 3
Bass – 2-3
Contour – 2-3
Treble – 10
Channel – Overdrive
Kurt Cobain of Nirvana
Gain – 7
Treble – 7
Mid – 4
Bass – 3
Reverb – 2
Channel – Overdrive
Kurt Cobain – Chorus Effect bits of Nirvana
Effects/Other – Ibanez CF-7 Pedal
Speed- 10
Depth- 5
Delay Time- 0 or 1.5
Regen- 3
Mick Thompson of Slipknot
Gain – 9-10
Treble – 8
Mid – 7
Bass – 8
Reverb – 2
Effects/Other – Tuning of B F B E G# C# (low to high)
Channel – Distortion
Noel Gallagher of Oasis
Gain- 5.5
Volume- 10
Treble- 7
Middle- 5.5
Bass- 4.5
Steve Jones of Sex Pistols
Gain- 7
Volume- 10
Treble- 8.5
Middle- 6
Bass- 4
David Gilmour of Pink Floyd
Bass: 10
Middle: 6.5
Treble: 10
Gain: 1.5
or
Gain-2-3
Treble- 7-8
Mids- 9-10
Bass- 5-6
Reverb- 60-70%
Joe Perry of Aerosmith
Gain: 5.5
Treble: 2
Mid: 7
Bass: 2
Volume: Full (used Fenders in the early days and switched to music Man during the Toys era, now uses a mixture)
Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top
Treble: 3
Middle: 10
Bass: 10
Prescense: 10
Gain: about 5 (crunchy type of sound)
Use a Les Paul guitar with not to much output in the pups and select both!
Randy Rhoads of Black Sabbath
Gain 7
Bass 7
Mids 7
Treble 10
Reverb 0
Steve Vai
Clean:
Treble: 8
Mid: 5
Bass: 4
Lead:
Presence: 6
Treble: 6
Mid: 7
Bass: 7
Gain: 8
Sublime
General
Treble 9-10
mid:0
bass: 7
with a hint of chorus…on clean
Kerry King
Gain – 9-10
Treble – 10
Mid – 4
Bass – 6-7
Reverb – 3