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Nightmare amp settings — Fender Champion 20

The Avenged Sevenfold guitar tone for “Nightmare”, dialed in for a Fender Champion 20 with a Fender Player Telecaster. Studio version, Nightmare (2010) — main heavy rhythm & riff tone

Original rig

Marshall JVM205H / Bogner Uberschall + Schecter Synyster Gates Custom (Seymour Duncan Invader) + Boss SD-1 boost

Aggressive, tight high-gain modern metal rhythm with focused upper-mids and sharp palm-muted attack

Amp settings — Fender Champion 20

CHANNELVoice: Metal 2000 (red LED / modern high gain)

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	5
Treble	5
Reverb	0
Master	4

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive

Used as an input tightener/boost into the Metal voice — cuts flub and pushes single-coil output

Drive 1 · Tone 5 · Level 8

Why these settings

On the Champion 20, the Metal 2000 voice provides the modern cascading saturation of Synyster's JVM205H/Bogner setup while omitting the absent mid and presence controls. Your Telecaster bridge single coil has less low-end girth and sharper bite than an SD Invader humbucker, so roll the guitar tone back to 8 and keep amp treble at 5. The Boss SD-1 is set as a clean level boost with near-zero drive to tighten the bass response before the 8-inch speaker breaks up. Clean intro switch: turn off the SD-1 and switch the Champion Voice knob to Blackface Clean.

PRO TIPSynyster Gates heavily mutes with the fleshy side of the picking palm right against the bridge saddles; pick with a heavy gauge pick angled slightly forward to emulate the thick, percussive attack of an Invader pickup on single-coil strings.

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