🎚️ Clean settings

Best amp settings for clean

Starting-point EQ for clean tone, averaged from 4 famous clean recordings. Dial these in, then fine-tune by ear — or let the tool below adapt them to the exact amp and guitar you own.

Starting point: Gain 1.5 · Bass 6 · Mid 6 · Treble 6.5 · Presence 5 (out of 10)
💡 Great clean tone is the amp and how hard you hit it. Keep gain at 0–3, let the amp’s natural voice and a touch of reverb do the rest.
🎛️ Adapt clean tones to YOUR exact rig — free →

Amps most used for clean

Roland JC-120 (2)

Famous clean tones

Midnight Rendezvous — Casiopea · Teenage Dirtbag — Wheatus · Portrait of Tracy — Jaco Pastorius · Oh! Tengo Suerte — Masayoshi Takanaka

Community-researched estimates. More: amp settings by amp · amp comparisons · 495 tones.