🎸 Britpop · 1990s

Don't Look Back in Anger (Riff · Distorted) — Guitar Tone

by Oasis · riff

The Don't Look Back in Anger by Oasis guitar tone is built on a Marshall JCM900 / Bluesbreaker, dialed in at gain 4.5/10, bass 5, mid 6.5, treble 6.5, presence 5.5 (community-researched baseline). Full breakdown below — then adapt every knob to your exact guitar and amp, free.

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Amp settings (0–10)

4.5
GAIN
5
BASS
6.5
MID
6.5
TREBLE
5.5
PRESENCE
2
REVERB

Community-researched baseline. Your rig is different — GuitarToneAdapt re-dials every knob for your specific guitar, amp and pickups.

Original gear

Amp: Marshall JCM900 / Bluesbreaker (later Hiwatt) with an Ibanez TS9

Pickups

bridge/neck (Riviera humbuckers / Strat single-coils)

Effects / signal chain

overdrive, delay, reverb

Tone character

pushed Britpop crunch, mid-forward, anthemic, TS9 punch

Recording context

studio

How it’s played

moderate Britpop crunch distortion. This shapes how hard the amp is pushed and where the EQ sits for the Don't Look Back in Anger sound.

What makes the Don't Look Back in Anger part tricky

open-chord strumming, capo, feel. GuitarToneAdapt gets the tone right so you can focus on the playing.

Note: Don't Look Back in Anger is electric Britpop crunch — an Epiphone Riviera into a Marshall with a TS9, mids and treble up so the chords ring out anthemically., Oasis / Noel Gallagher's electric tone is a moderately overdriven Britpop crunch — an Epiphone Riviera (or a '65 Strat bought from Johnny Marr) into a Marshall (JCM900 / Bluesbreaker, later Hiwatt) with an Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer almost always on for the overdrive, mids and treble pushed to cut through, and a touch of reverb/Space Echo., Keep gain moderate — it's a pushed-clean/crunch, not high gain. The TS9 is the key piece for the punch., Settings are community-researched starting points, not official recall sheets.

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Settings are community-researched estimates, not official. GuitarToneAdapt adapts them to your gear. guitartoneadapt.com