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 · 5 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Gibson SG Standard (1964, 'The Fool')
Pickups
HH
Tuning
neck
Strings
standard
Marshall JTM45/100 head (1966)
Marshall 1960B 4x12 (Celestion G12M-25 Greenback)
Shure SM57 (or similar dynamic)
Studio plate (Atlantic Studios)
Marshall JTM45/100 head (1966)
preamp
Presence
10
Bass
10
Middle
10
Treble
10
Volume I
10
Volume II
10
Studio plate (Atlantic Studios)
reverb
Decay
1.5s
Mix
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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