🎸 Rock · 1970s

Go Your Own Way (Riff · Distorted) — Guitar Tone

by Fleetwood Mac · riff

The Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac guitar tone is built on a Hiwatt Custom 100, dialed in at gain 3.5/10, bass 4.5, mid 5.5, treble 7, presence 6 (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)

3.5
GAIN
4.5
BASS
5.5
MID
7
TREBLE
6
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: Hiwatt Custom 100 (clean, mid-rich) / any clean-headroom amp

Pickups

bridge/middle (bright Strat)

Effects / signal chain

overdrive, compression, delay

Tone character

bright fingerstyle jangle, lightly overdriven, mid-scooped, driving

Recording context

studio

How it’s played

bright lightly-overdriven jangle distortion. This shapes how hard the amp is pushed and where the EQ sits for the Go Your Own Way sound.

What makes the Go Your Own Way part tricky

fingerstyle riff, capo voicings, drive. GuitarToneAdapt gets the tone right so you can focus on the playing.

Note: Go Your Own Way is a bright, lightly-overdriven FINGERSTYLE riff — Lindsey Buckingham played a Strat (capo high on the neck for higher voicings) into a clean, mid-rich Hiwatt with just a little drive and compression. Bright EQ with a mild mid-scoop; short delay on leads., Use a bright Strat tone, light overdrive + compression, treble up with a slight mid-scoop, and play fingerstyle (a capo high up gets the original voicings)., 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