No. 0432011·blues-rock·3 blocks
Lonely Boy
Lonely Boy's riff is a raw, fat, garage-rock tone built on simplicity: a Les Paul Junior with a single P-90 pickup into a cranked small amp. The tone is warm, slightly fuzzy, and dripping with character from the amp's natural breakup. No fancy effects -- just a guitar, a cable, and a loud amp doing what they do best.
El CaminoSignal path · input → output · 7 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Gibson Les Paul Junior
Pickups
P90
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Volume Pedal
Deluxe Comp
US Small Tweed
1x8 Small Tweed
Spring
Tilt
Volume Pedal
← Volume pedal
Level
100%
Deluxe Comp
← Studio compressor
Threshold
-36dB
Ratio
2:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
0.1s
Release
0.9s
Mix
0.7
Level
0dB
US Small Tweed
← Fender Champ
Drive
8
Bass
5
Mid
6
Treble
5
Master
1
Bias
0.5
BiasX
0.5
Sag
0.5
Hum
0.5
Ripple
0.5
Ch Vol
8
1x8 Small Tweed
← Champ 1x8
LowCut19.9Hz
HighCut20100Hz
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Spring
← Tracking room ambience
LowCut200Hz
HighCut6000Hz
Mix
0.2
Decay
0.3s
Predelay
0.0ms
Tilt
← Tilt EQ (global brightness)
Tilt
0.5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 043
Lonely Boy's riff is a raw, fat, garage-rock tone built on simplicity: a Les Paul Junior with a single P-90 pickup into a cranked small amp. The tone is warm, slightly fuzzy, and dripping with character from the amp's natural breakup. No fancy effects -- just a guitar, a cable, and a loud amp doing what they do best.
— Dan Auerbach
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