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 · 7 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Gibson SG Standard (1964, 'The Fool')
Pickups
HH
Tuning
neck
Strings
standard
Volume Pedal
Deluxe Comp
Brit Trem
4x12 Greenback 25
Plate
Tilt
Volume Pedal
← Volume pedal
Pedal
100%
Deluxe Comp
← Natural amp + tape compression
Threshold
-28dB
Ratio
2.5:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
50s
Release
300s
Mix
50
Level
0dB
Brit Trem
← Marshall JTM45/100 (1966)
Drive
8.5
Bass
10
Mid
10
Treble
10
Presence
10
ChVol
10
Master
10
Bias
5.5
BiasX
5
Sag
6.5
Hum
5
Ripple
5
4x12 Greenback 25
← Marshall 1960B with Celestion G12M-25 Greenback
LowCut100Hz
HighCut7000Hz
Resonance
0.5
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
Plate
← Atlantic Studios EMT plate
LowCut200Hz
HighCut6000Hz
Mix
15
Decay
1.5s
Predelay
25ms
Level
0
Tilt
← Tilt EQ (global brightness)
Tilt
0.5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
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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