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Gary Moore
Tone profile
What makes this tone
Signal chain
Tone Character
Recorded tone character
Gain character
Smooth high-gain pedal distortion over a clean Marshall foundation.
Bass
Controlled and warm.
Mids
Extremely forward and vocal.
Treble
Clear but rounded.
Brightness / presence
Moderate, avoiding harshness.
Compression
Strong singing sustain with a smooth envelope.
Effects
Marshall The Guv'nor supplies the distortion; subtle stereo chorus is likely from a Roland Dimension D on cleaner rhythm texture.
Evidence / Sources
Tone character: singing, thick, mid-forward, smooth, sustaining, warm, vocal, polished
The source is unusually clear: the JTM45 was set clean and The Guv'nor was the sole source of the main lead distortion. The very high midrange is intentional and central to the singing 'woman tone' character.
Marshall The Guv'nor supplies the distortion; subtle stereo chorus is likely from a Roland Dimension D on cleaner rhythm texture.
Guitar
Gary Moore's 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard
Amp
Prototype Marshall JTM45 reissue dialed clean
Channel
Clean JTM45 platform driven into lead saturation by The Guv'nor pedal
Pickup
Neck humbucker for the main melodic line and solos