Real AmpTuning: E StandardPickup: BridgeBeginner FriendlyMost AccurateCrunchBest for Beginners
Little Green Proto-Fuzz — Slashed-Speaker Riff
Dave Davies created the track’s distortion by cutting the speaker cone of his small Elpico “Little Green” amplifier and feeding that damaged amp into a Vox AC30. The setup predates fuzz pedals, and no reliable knob sheet survives, so the controls below are practical approximations of the documented two-amp chain. Source: The Guardian’s “How We Made You Really Got Me” and MusicRadar’s Dave Davies speaker demonstration.
Signal Chain
Harmony Meteor semi-hollowbody→Elpico AC55 “Little Green” with slashed speaker feeding Vox AC30→Vox AC30 2x12→Output
GuitarHarmony Meteor semi-hollowbody
Tone
9
PickupBridge
TuningE Standard
Volume
10
AmpElpico AC55 “Little Green” with slashed speaker feeding Vox AC30
Cut4
Bass
4.5
Master
7
Treble
6.5
Vox Volume6
Elpico Volume10
Cab / IRVox AC30 2x12
MicRepresentative close ribbon mic
Mic PositionOff-axis, near cone edge
Notes
Do not physically damage a speaker. Reproduce the torn-speaker response with an appropriate model or impulse response before a clean-to-crunchy AC30 model.
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