(for Les Paul and other 2 pickup guitars with toggle switch)
1) Chords strumming, chords picking, clean solo
* Chords strumming (like on the acoustic guitar):
a) Guitar toggle switch: both pickups
b) Guitar tone pots: on 10
c) Amp tone pots: treble higher than bass and mids: Bass(\) Mids(\) Treble(/)
d) Amp gain: no overdrive/distortion (aka. clean)
* Chords picking (eg. for ballads):
a) Guitar toggle switch: both pickups
b) Guitar tone pots: on 10
c) Amp tone pots: treble higher than bass and mids: Bass(\) Mids(\) Treble(/)
d) Amp gain: no overdrive/distortion (aka. clean)
e) Amp/Pedal effect: Chorus
* Clean solo:
a) Guitar toggle switch: mostly neck pickup, but also both pickups, rarely bridge pickup
b) Guitar tone pots: on 0 if Jazz, respectively on 10 if anything else
c) Amp tone pots: treble higher than bass and mids: Bass(\) Mids(\) Treble(/)
d) Amp gain: no overdrive/distortion (aka. clean)
e) Amp/Pedal effect: Reverb
2) Blues, Country, Rock'n'Roll, Classic Rock
* Blues:
a) Guitar toggle switch: mostly neck pickup
b) Guitar tone pots: on 10
c) Amp tone pots: tone pots at equal level (muddy sound): Bass(\) Mids(\) Treble (\)
d) Amp gain: overdrive between 0% and 33% (aka. clean or crunch)
e) Amp/Pedal effect: Reverb
* Country:
a) Guitar toggle switch: mostly bridge pickup
b) Guitar tone pots: on 10
c) Amp tone pots: treble higher than bass and mids: Bass(\) Mids(\) Treble(/)
d) Amp gain: overdrive 33% (aka. crunch)
e) Amp/Pedal effect: a very short Echo/Delay (small pub stage sound)
f) If possible, single coil or coil split bridge pickup configuration (quacky sound)
* Rock'n'Roll:
a) Guitar toggle switch: mostly bridge pickup
b) Guitar tone pots: on 10
c) Amp tone pots: mids higher than bass and treble (vintage sound): Bass(\) Mids(/) Treble(\)
d) Amp gain: overdrive 33% (aka. crunch)
e) Amp/Pedal effect: a very short Echo/Delay
* Classic Rock:
a) Guitar toggle switch: mostly bridge pickup (mandatory for power chords)
b) Guitar tone pots: on 10
c) Amp tone pots: mids higher than bass and treble (vintage sound): Bass(\) Mids(/) Treble(\) - or out of phase in the middle position with equal tone setup
d) Amp gain: overdrive 66% (aka. overdrive no. 1)
e) Amp/Pedal effect: Reverb
3) Hard Rock, Metal
* Hard Rock:
a) Guitar toggle switch: only bridge pickup
b) Guitar tone pots: on 10
c) Amp tone pots: treble higher than bass and mids: Bass(\) Mids(\) Treble(/)
d) Amp gain: overdrive 100% (aka. overdrive no. 2)
* Metal:
a) Guitar toggle switch: only bridge pickup
b) Guitar tone pots: on 10
c) Amp tone pots: mids below bass and treble (Metallica sound): Bass(/) Mids(\) Treble(/)
d) Amp gain: overdrive 100% (aka. overdrive no. 2)
e) Preferable, hot humbucker bridge pickup (~14 .. 16 kΩ) for high output distortion
