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Eric Clapton

One wah between guitar and amplifier. The saturated “woman tone” came primarily from the guitar controls and loud amplifiers, not a chain of overdrive pedals.

Board
Cream-era floor rig
Context
Cream live rig
Board date
Evidence
Documented equipment · 2 cited sources
Order
Source-described
Scope
Touring-period rig
Routing
Serial path
Audited
Signal
1 unit · Guitar to amplifier

Signal path / A

Cream-era floor rig

Documented minimal rig

InputGuitar
OutputAmplifier

Documented equipment · Source-described order · Serial path

Contemporary accounts place a Vox wah in Clapton’s Cream-era setup. Claims about an always-used treble booster are disputed, so it is intentionally excluded from this core path.

Cited sources

  1. Guitar.comGuitar Legends: Eric Clapton, part one
  2. Where's Eric!Eric Clapton's historical guitar and amp setup