No. 0541967·blues-rock·4 blocks
Sunshine of Your Love
The best-known illustration of Clapton's 'woman tone.' On Cream's Sunshine of Your Love (Disraeli Gears, May 1967, Atlantic Studios), Clapton played his 1964 Gibson SG Standard — the famous Fool-painted SG — through a 1966 Marshall JTM45/100 head into a single Marshall 1960B 4x12. The amp's passive tone controls were pushed to 10, the master and channel volumes were at or near 10 for natural compression, and the guitar's tone control was rolled down to bring out the fat, honking midrange that defines the riff.
Disraeli GearsSignal path · input → output · 6 blocksLive values · Fractal Axe-Fx
Guitar
Gibson SG Standard (1964, 'The Fool')
Pickups
HH
Tuning
neck
Strings
standard
Compressor
Plexi 100W 1968
4x12 Green 25W
Plate Reverb
Graphic EQ
Compressor
← Natural amp + tape compression
Threshold
-28dB
Ratio
2.5:1
Attack
0.1s
Release
0.3s
Mix
0.5
Level
0dB
Plexi 100W 1968
← Marshall JTM45/100 (1966)
Drive
8.5
Bass
10
Mid
10
Treble
10
Presence
10
MV
10
Cut
0
4x12 Green 25W
← Marshall 1960B with Greenback
LowCut100Hz
HighCut7000Hz
Level
0dB
Plate Reverb
← Atlantic Studios EMT plate
Mix
0.1
Decay
1.5s
Predelay
25ms
Graphic EQ
← Global brightness adjustment
100Hz
0
330Hz
0
1kHz
0
3.3kHz
-1
10kHz
-2
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 054
The best-known illustration of Clapton's 'woman tone.' On Cream's Sunshine of Your Love (Disraeli Gears, May 1967, Atlantic Studios), Clapton played his 1964 Gibson SG Standard — the famous Fool-painted SG — through a 1966 Marshall JTM45/100 head into a single Marshall 1960B 4x12. The amp's passive tone controls were pushed to 10, the master and channel volumes were at or near 10 for natural compression, and the guitar's tone control was rolled down to bring out the fat, honking midrange that defines the riff.
— Eric Clapton
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