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 · 4 blocksLive values · Boss Katana
Guitar
Gibson SG Standard (1964, 'The Fool')
Pickups
HH
Tuning
neck
Strings
standard
Tube Screamer
Crunch
Plate
Tube Screamer
← Tube Screamer (alt boost)
Drive
2
Bottom
5
Tone
5
Level
7
Crunch
← Marshall JTM45/100 (1966)
Gain
8
Volume
8
Bass
10
Middle
10
Treble
10
Presence
10
Master
8
Plate
← Atlantic Studios EMT plate
Time
4ms
PreDelay
25ms
Tone
5
EffectLevel
15
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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