Cheat sheets
Amp settings cheat sheets
120 one-page sheets: amp settings by style, songs that share one setting, the songs people search for by name, every artist in the library and printable sheets for practice amps and pedals. Each number is the starting point its song, guide or gear page gives, on a five-knob amp from 0 to 10.
Amp settings by style
Each box is the starting point of a song in the library, named for its style, so every number matches the song page it comes from.






Guitar Solo Amp Settings Cheat Sheet: Lead Tones From Blues to Thrash
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One amp setting, many songs
Songs of the same style and the same kind of part start at the same place. Set the amp once and work down the list.

31 Hard Rock Guitar Riffs You Can Play With One Amp Setting
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- Welcome To The Jungle (Guns N' Roses)
- Back in Black (AC/DC)
- Sweet Child O' Mine (Guns N' Roses)
- Thunderstruck (AC/DC)
- Mississippi Queen (Mountain)
- Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin)
- Highway to Hell (AC/DC)
- Panama (Van Halen)
- Rock You Like a Hurricane (Scorpions)
- Smoke on the Water (Deep Purple)
- Kickstart My Heart (Mötley Crüe)
- Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love (Van Halen)
- Black Dog (Led Zeppelin)
- Nightrain (Guns N' Roses)
- You Shook Me All Night Long (AC/DC)
- Hells Bells (AC/DC)
- Paradise City (Guns N' Roses)
- Poundcake (Van Halen)
- Walk This Way (Aerosmith)
- Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin)
- I Love Rock 'n' Roll (Joan Jett and the Blackhearts)
- Tattoo (Van Halen)
- Kashmir (Led Zeppelin)
- No One Knows (Queens of the Stone Age)
- Unchained (Van Halen)
- Livin' on a Prayer (Bon Jovi)
- Barracuda (Heart)
- More Than a Feeling (Boston)
- Highway Tune (Greta Van Fleet)
- Square Hammer (Ghost)
- Stranglehold (Ted Nugent)

18 Alt Metal Guitar Riffs You Can Play With One Amp Setting
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- My Own Summer (Shove It) (Deftones)
- Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) (Deftones)
- Psychosocial (Slipknot)
- Duality (Slipknot)
- One Step Closer (Linkin Park)
- Faint (Linkin Park)
- Chop Suey (System of a Down)
- Blind (Korn)
- Aerials (System of a Down)
- Before I Forget (Slipknot)
- Change (In the House of Flies) (Deftones)
- Toxicity (System of a Down)
- Sober (Tool)
- In the End (Linkin Park)
- Numb (Linkin Park)
- Monster (Skillet)
- Bodies (Drowning Pool)
- Freak on a Leash (Korn)

15 Grunge Guitar Riffs You Can Play With One Amp Setting
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- Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
- Heart-Shaped Box (Nirvana)
- Zombie (The Cranberries)
- In Bloom (Nirvana)
- Man in the Box (Alice in Chains)
- Drain You (Nirvana)
- Them Bones (Alice in Chains)
- Lithium (Nirvana)
- Even Flow (Pearl Jam)
- Rooster (Alice in Chains)
- Bullet with Butterfly Wings (The Smashing Pumpkins)
- Would? (Alice in Chains)
- Rusty Cage (Soundgarden)
- Outshined (Soundgarden)
- Plush (Stone Temple Pilots)

12 Thrash Metal Guitar Riffs You Can Play With One Amp Setting
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- Master of Puppets (Metallica)
- Seek & Destroy (Metallica)
- One (Metallica)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (Metallica)
- Orion (Metallica)
- Ride the Lightning (Metallica)
- Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (Metallica)
- Battery (Metallica)
- Holy Wars... The Punishment Due (Megadeth)
- Raining Blood (Slayer)
- Creeping Death (Metallica)
- Blackened (Metallica)

12 Heavy Metal Guitar Riffs You Can Play With One Amp Setting
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- Crazy Train (Ozzy Osbourne)
- Iron Man (Black Sabbath)
- Paranoid (Black Sabbath)
- War Pigs (Black Sabbath)
- No More Tears (Ozzy Osbourne)
- Fade to Black (Metallica)
- Into the Void (Black Sabbath)
- The Trooper (Iron Maiden)
- Bark at the Moon (Ozzy Osbourne)
- Behind the Wall of Sleep (Black Sabbath)
- Painkiller (Judas Priest)
- Fear of the Dark (Iron Maiden)

11 Alt Rock Clean Guitar Riffs You Can Play With One Amp Setting
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- Under the Bridge (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- Snow (Hey Oh) (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- Californication (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- Can't Stop (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- Yellow Ledbetter (Pearl Jam)
- About a Girl (Nirvana)
- Scar Tissue (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- Dani California (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- How Soon Is Now? (The Smiths)
- Today (The Smashing Pumpkins)
- 1979 (The Smashing Pumpkins)






The songs people search for by name
The songs Pinterest suggests most when players type a song name and "amp settings", each with the rig its sources report.
Songs set up on a Boss Katana or Fender Mustang LT25
The same songs on the amp's own controls: the amp type or model to select, the knobs and the effects, each from its page.


Master of Puppets Fender Mustang LT25 Settings (Metallica Guitar Tone)
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Comfortably Numb Fender Mustang LT25 Settings (Pink Floyd Guitar Tone)
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Money for Nothing Fender Mustang LT25 Settings (Dire Straits Guitar Tone)
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Smells Like Teen Spirit Fender Mustang LT25 Settings (Nirvana Guitar Tone)
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Sweet Child O' Mine Boss Katana Settings (Guns N' Roses Guitar Tone)
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Sweet Child O' Mine Fender Mustang LT25 Settings (Guns N' Roses Guitar Tone)
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Sultans of Swing Fender Mustang LT25 Settings (Dire Straits Guitar Tone)
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Nothing Else Matters Fender Mustang LT25 Settings (Metallica Guitar Tone)
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Welcome To The Jungle Boss Katana Settings (Guns N' Roses Guitar Tone)
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Welcome To The Jungle Fender Mustang LT25 Settings (Guns N' Roses Guitar Tone)
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November Rain Fender Mustang LT25 Settings (Guns N' Roses Guitar Tone)
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Cherub Rock Boss Katana Settings (The Smashing Pumpkins Guitar Tone)
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Amp and pedal cheat sheets to print
The guide and gear cheat sheets in ink on white, and the pedal guides' settings on one page each.

Boss Katana Settings Cheat Sheet: Clean, Blues, Classic Rock and Metal (Printable)
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Amp settings by artist
Every artist with two or more songs in the library, their songs grouped by the starting point they share.



Red Hot Chili Peppers Amp Settings for 7 Songs: Guitar Tone Cheat Sheet
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The Smashing Pumpkins Amp Settings for 5 Songs: Guitar Tone Cheat Sheet
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Stevie Ray Vaughan Amp Settings for 4 Songs: Guitar Tone Cheat Sheet
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Rage Against the Machine Amp Settings for 2 Songs: Guitar Tone Cheat Sheet
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The Rolling Stones Amp Settings for 2 Songs: Guitar Tone Cheat Sheet
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These are positions on a generic five-knob amp with gain, bass, middle, treble and presence, each running 0 to 10. They are a starting point, not the settings used on the record, and they will not transfer unchanged to an amp with a different gain structure or EQ voicing.














