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Riff Tone
Don't Cry
Guns N' Roses
Guitarrock1990s
Original Gear
GuitarFender Telecaster Thinline (slightly overwound neck humbucker, as used by Izzy Stradlin on studio recording)
AmpFender Bassman (blackface, studio, slightly brighter modded version) into Mesa Boogie cab
Amp Settings
gain0
bass5.5
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Notes
Studio recording, 1991 (Use Your Illusion I). Clean tone for riff/verse/intro sections. Izzy Stradlin's part, not Slash's distorted lead. Chorus effect used live and possibly in studio. Pickup and amp details from forum with high plausibility for studio context.
Tone Character(10)
bright and articulatewarm neck pickup toneslightly scooped midsclean with light shimmertouch-sensitive dynamicslight chorus shimmerclear note separationslightly compressedopen and airysubtle reverb depth
Difficulty
The riff requires clean, controlled picking and chord voicings with open strings, but is not technically demanding in terms of speed or advanced techniques.
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Original Gear
GuitarFender Telecaster Thinline (slightly overwound neck humbucker, as used by Izzy Stradlin on studio recording)
AmpFender Bassman (blackface, studio, slightly brighter modded version) into Mesa Boogie cab
Amp Settings
gain0
bass5.5
Create an account to see all tone details
Create Free AccountEffects & Signal Chain
Notes
Studio recording, 1991 (Use Your Illusion I). Clean tone for riff/verse/intro sections. Izzy Stradlin's part, not Slash's distorted lead. Chorus effect used live and possibly in studio. Pickup and amp details from forum with high plausibility for studio context.
Tone Character(10)
bright and articulatewarm neck pickup toneslightly scooped midsclean with light shimmertouch-sensitive dynamicslight chorus shimmerclear note separationslightly compressedopen and airysubtle reverb depth
Difficulty
The riff requires clean, controlled picking and chord voicings with open strings, but is not technically demanding in terms of speed or advanced techniques.