Tone Card

Paradise City (Intro) — Guns N' Roses

Slash's warm, clean intro tone — a Les Paul neck humbucker straight into a Marshall Plexi, mapped to GarageBand's Vintage British Stack.

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Slash
Tone inspired by "Paradise City" — Intro
GarageBand Ready
Guitar Style
Single-cutaway solidbody, dual humbuckers
Pickup
Neck Humbucker
Tuning
E♭ Standard (½ step down)
Amp Settings
Gain
30
Bass
45
Mid
60
Treble
65
Presence
55
Master
40
GarageBand Settings
Amp Model Vintage British Stack
Real-World Equivalent Marshall Plexi (Super Lead)
EQ Type British Bright
Cabinet 4×12 (matched)
Mic Condenser 87 (slightly off-axis)
Guitar Controls Neck pickup, volume around 7, tone rolled back to 5 or 6. This is what keeps Gain 30 clean.
Input Level Interface gain around 11 o'clock on a Focusrite Clarett+ 2Pre with humbuckers. Peaks well below the clip light.
Pedals Heavenly Chorus, subtle: Rate low, Depth around 30, Mix around 25 (see note)
Reverb Built-in amp reverb — 15-20% (studio ambience only)
Note A light chorus shimmer is audible on the record. Whether it came from a pedal, double-tracking, or the mix isn't documented, so treat the chorus as a taste call and keep it subtle.
Sources

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