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How to get the Honky Tonk Women guitar tone

The Rolling Stones

Not quite clean, not quite dirty. That edge-of-breakup thing is genuinely hard to dial in and The Rolling Stones got it right. There's real presence up top — that treble bite isn't an accident, it's what makes every picked note land. Layer in room reverb and the whole thing takes on a dimension you can't get from the amp alone.

Gear used on the recording

GuitarVersatile (Stratocaster or HSS Superstrat)
AmpFender clean (Deluxe / Twin Reverb)

Key tone characteristics

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