Rat Salad — Guitar Tone

Amp settings (0–10)

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

Original gear

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Pickups

Bridge pickup

Effects / signal chain

boost

Tone character

classic British crunch, punchy midrange, tight, percussive attack, raw, biting overdrive, articulate note separation, slightly compressed, focused low end, open, uncompressed high end, minimal studio effects, organic amp-driven distortion

Recording context

studio

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Sources

• Tony Iommi's classic Black Sabbath guitar tone: secrets behind the sound | Guitar World
• Tony Iommi’s tone secrets, by longtime producer Mike Exeter | Guitar World
• Tony Iommi's Guitar Gear | Equipboard
• What's the amp settings for the first 5 albums. : r/blacksabbath - Reddit

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