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Limelight Riff Guitar Tone Settings — Rush
Rush · 1980s · rock
studio
Original Recording
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (black, modified with humbucker in bridge, Schaller neck)
Pickups
Bridge position humbucker (exact model unknown, likely DiMarzio or Seymour Duncan, as per era modding trends)
Amp
Marshall 50-watt head (likely JMP or JCM800, as used on Moving Pictures sessions)
Pickup Position
Bridge pickup (humbucker, Strat position 1)
Studio recording, 1980-1981. Guitar was a heavily modified Stratocaster with a humbucker in the bridge. Amp was a Marshall 50-watt head, not Hughes & Kettner (which came later).
Amp Settings
Mids7
Bass6
Gain0
Reverb2.5
Treble7
Presence6
Effects Chain
- Chorus pedal (model unknown) · chorus
Fender Stratocaster (bridge humbucker) → Chorus pedal (model unknown) → Marshall 50-watt head (with spring reverb)
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Tone Character
- chiming clean chords
- bright and articulate
- slightly compressed
- glassy top end
- clear note separation
- modulation shimmer
- studio ambience
- no audible drive
- percussive attack
- lush clean texture