Jimmy Page’s Marshall Settings
From the Horse’s Mouth!
The September 1998 issue of Guitar Shop magazine (no longer in print) has a pretty good interview with Jimmy Page – a bunch of gear information, for some reason a rarity when it comes to Page interviews.
I covered some of that info in a previous post, but the following info is new – for me, anyway, and I’m sure some of you. Here are Jimmy’s amp settings on his customized Marshall plexis used in the ’70s:
Presence = 10
Bass = 9
Mids = 3
Treble = 5
Volume I = 6
Volume II = 6
Here's the actual graphic from the mag. Click to see WAY bigger.
Take a Les Paul with a Gibson T-Top (or custom-made replica) in the bridge and PAF replica in the neck, flip your pickup selector switch to the middle, string up with Ernie Ball Super Slinky strings (those are 8s, use 9s at the most), plug into a plexi-ish amp with those settings running into a Marshall cab with Celestion Greenbacks, and you should be well on your way to getting a Page woody! (Even though Jimmy’s Marshall was customized, the tone is there – just don’t keep the pickup vols on 10.)
That is all, gents!
Category: Jimmy Page/Zep, Marshall
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