Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

Pride and Joy guitar tone settings.

Texas Flood · 1983 · Rock

Explore Pride and Joy by Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble: an example rig, amp settings and playing tips. Adapt the reference to your own supported gear with Amper.

Texas Flood — Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble album artwork — Album artwork · Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble / Apple Music ↗

RECREATION

Blues shuffle

Responsive breakup with a warm, cutting midrange.

In your hands

Maintain the shuffle feel, rake through muted strings, and vary pick strength.

Evidence and sources

Vaughan's 1984 interview supplies blues performance context, not exact Pride and Joy session controls. The breakup, pickup and reverb choices are Amper's practice-oriented recreation. Amper's pickup, effect choices and normalized 0–10 targets are suggested recreations unless specifically attributed above. Numeric settings are not documented artist settings. Listening validation is pending.

Stevie Ray Vaughan 1984 interview — performance context ↗

Reference tone

FREE TO EXPLORE

An authored example rig, not your matched settings or a documented artist preset.

Player II Stratocaster→RV-6 Reverb→Champion 40

guitar · Fender

Player II Stratocaster

Pickup selectorNeck single-coilWhy this setting?

Suggested pickup position for this part; a tonal choice, not a claim about the original session.

Volume10Why this setting?

Suggested volume position for this part. Compare at equal listening volume and adjust by ear.

Normalized 0-10 knob travel; not printed panel numbers

Tone 1 (neck/middle)8Why this setting?

Suggested tone 1 (neck/middle) position for this part. Compare at equal listening volume and adjust by ear.

Normalized 0-10 knob travel; not printed panel numbers

Tone 2 (bridge)8Why this setting?

Suggested tone 2 (bridge) position for this part. Compare at equal listening volume and adjust by ear.

Normalized 0-10 knob travel; not printed panel numbers

pedal · BOSS

RV-6 Reverb

E.Level1Why this setting?

Editorial starting point, not a measured reproduction. Compare at equal listening volume and adjust by ear.

Normalized knob travel 0-10. Reverb output amount.

Tone7Why this setting?

Editorial starting point, not a measured reproduction. Compare at equal listening volume and adjust by ear.

Normalized knob travel 0-10. Reverb tone; algorithm-dependent.

Time3Why this setting?

Editorial starting point, not a measured reproduction. Compare at equal listening volume and adjust by ear.

Normalized knob travel 0-10. Reverb duration; algorithm-dependent.

ModeHallWhy this setting?

Editorial starting point, not a measured reproduction. Compare at equal listening volume and adjust by ear.

Effect footswitchOnWhy this setting?

Engage this selected pedal for this section; match the bypassed loudness.

Use INPUT A and OUTPUT A for normal mono dry-plus-reverb sound. Do not use Input B alone, which produces wet-only output.

amp · Fender

Champion 40

CH SelectChannel 2Why this setting?

Editorial starting point, not a measured reproduction. Compare at equal listening volume and adjust by ear.

Gain4Why this setting?

Editorial starting point, not a measured reproduction. Compare at equal listening volume and adjust by ear.

Normalized knob travel 0-10. Channel 2 distortion.

Volume 22Why this setting?

Start with output at minimum, then raise toward this low starting position to suit your room; knob position is not loudness.

Normalized knob travel 0-10. Channel 2 output.

Voice70s BritishWhy this setting?

Editorial starting point, not a measured reproduction. Compare at equal listening volume and adjust by ear.

Treble7Why this setting?

Editorial starting point, not a measured reproduction. Compare at equal listening volume and adjust by ear.

Normalized knob travel 0-10. Treble EQ.

Bass4Why this setting?

Editorial starting point, not a measured reproduction. Compare at equal listening volume and adjust by ear.

Normalized knob travel 0-10. Bass EQ.

FX Level0Why this setting?

Editorial starting point, not a measured reproduction. Compare at equal listening volume and adjust by ear.

Normalized knob travel 0-10. Selected effect amount.

FX SelectOffWhy this setting?

Editorial starting point, not a measured reproduction. Compare at equal listening volume and adjust by ear.

Choose the indicated voice and effect labels on the panel. FX Level controls the combined effect mix; this plan chooses one available effect or documented combination.

Know the limits

Editorial recreation; these settings have not been listening-tested on your setup.
Champion 40 lacks separate middle controls; the target EQ cannot be matched independently.
Pickup output, speakers, room, and studio layering remain differences; the numeric mapping is not an acoustic calibration.
Hall is an editorial ambience choice; exact recorded reverb type and decay are not stored.
Champion effect timing and mix are approximate starting points; its single FX selector cannot provide every requested effect simultaneously.
The displayed chain uses the amp input. Delay/reverb before an overdriven preamp will sound different from a post-drive studio effect; start with a low mix.

These are Amper recreation settings, not the artist’s exact knob positions. The example rig translates this named part’s stored gain, EQ, pickup and effect targets into verified hardware controls. Vaughan's 1984 interview supplies blues performance context, not exact Pride and Joy session controls. The breakup, pickup and reverb choices are Amper's practice-oriented recreation. Amper's pickup, effect choices and normalized 0–10 targets are suggested recreations unless specifically attributed above. Numeric settings are not documented artist settings. Listening validation is pending.