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The Star Spangled Banner (Live) Guitar Tone Settings
Jimi Hendrix · 1960s · rock
live
Original Recording
Guitar
1968 Fender Stratocaster (Olympic White, maple neck, right-handed, strung left-handed)
Pickups
Fender single-coil Stratocaster pickups (late 1960s spec)
Amp
Marshall Super Lead 100-watt (model 1959) into Marshall 4x12 cabinets
Pickup Position
Bridge pickup (most of the riff/anthem section), occasional switching to neck/middle for tonal variation
Live at Woodstock, August 1969. All gear confirmed for this specific performance. No studio effects; all effects are from pedals and amp. Hendrix played right-handed Strat flipped for left-handed use, with reversed string order.
Amp Settings
Mids7.5
Bass6.5
Gain8
Reverb0
Treble7.5
Presence7
Effects Chain
- Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face (silicon, likely BC108) · fuzz
- Vox Wah (Clyde McCoy or V846) · wah
- Univox Uni-Vibe · modulation
Guitar → Vox Wah → Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face → Univox Uni-Vibe → Marshall Super Lead 100 → Marshall 4x12 cabs
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Tone Character
- explosive fuzz saturation
- screaming feedback manipulation
- dynamic wah sweeps
- swirling Uni-Vibe modulation
- aggressive whammy bar dives
- piercing upper harmonics
- raw, uncompressed attack
- sustain-rich fuzz texture
- chaotic, expressive soundscape
- intense, overdriven amp character
Sources
- Jimi Hendrix's Iconic Guitar: The Woodstock White Strat Story
- Jimi Hendrix's guitar gear: how to capture the tone of the greatest ...
- FX guru Roger Mayer on Hendrix: “Anybody can buy a wah and just ...
- 51 great guitar FX moments | MusicRadar
- Titans of Tremolo - Premier Guitar
- Irony of Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner performance at Woodstock