You’ll ideally need a guitar with a humbucker pickup, however if your guitar has a single coil pickup in the bridge then you can compensate for this by increasing the mids and bass and decreasing the treble. I recommend using the bridge pickup on your guitar for all the distorted sections. If you have a Fender amp, then you’ll likely need more mids and less bass and treble for example compared to if you are using a Marshall amp. Keep in mind that the EQ section of your amp may need a fair bit of adjusting depending on the amplifier and guitar you have. William DuVall or Layne Staley parts), then you may need to turn the mids and treble down. If you are playing Jerry Cantrell’s lead sections, then you may want to increase the mids and treble to allow the tone to cut through more. If your amp has a single EQ/ tone control then have this turned to around 6-7 so it favours the treble frequencies.If it sounds muddy, turn the treble up to increase the clarity and note separation. If the tone is too harsh and bright, turn it down.
This will help give the tone plenty of punch and depth. If you feel like the tone needs more depth then turn the bass up, however if you feel like it sounds too muddy then turn it down.
You don’t want the bass to be too high or the tone won’t sound very tight. Some amps have separate bass, mids and treble controls and others have a single control called EQ or tone. The EQ section of the amplifier shapes the tone. Alternatively, you may need a footswitch for your amp which allows you to switch between channels without touching the amp mid-song. Using a pedal is a good idea because it will allow you to easily switch between your distorted and clean tones which is necessary for certain Alice In Chains songs. On most pedals, the drive control should be at around 5-6 and the tone control on around 5-6 as well. If on the other hand you are using a distortion or overdrive pedal, then you should use the clean channel of your amp and have the gain as low as possible. If you have a tube (valve) amplifier, then the chances are that it’ll need cranking up quite high to achieve the desired level of saturation, especially if you are running an amp with a lot of headroom such as a Fender. You don’t want to go overboard on the gain or it will start to sound too muddy and heavy. If you go with option 1 and just use your amplifier to get a distorted tone then it’s good to start with a setting of 6-7 for your gain control and use the distorted channel of your amp (if it has 2 channels). There are two routes you can go with for your gain: 1) using your amp, 2) using a pedal.
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