Heaven amp settings — Fender Champion 20

The Bryan Adams guitar tone for “Heaven”, dialed in for a Fender Champion 20 with a Fender American Professional II Stratocaster. Studio version, Reckless (1984) — signature melodic guitar solo & lead fills

Original rig

1976 Fender Stratocaster ('The Beast') into cranked vintage Marshall Super Lead / JCM800, Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer, Bob Clearmountain studio plate reverb and analog delay

Sustaining, melodic 80s arena rock lead tone with smooth upper-mid push and ambient studio reverb/delay

Amp settings — Fender Champion 20

CHANNELBritish 80s (Voice knob)

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	6
Treble	5
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Onboard FX: Reverb + Delay (Champion FX Select)

Select the built-in Delay + Rev setting on the FX Type dial

FX Level 6

Why these settings

The Champion 20 is a modeling amp with a 2-band EQ (no physical mid or presence knobs), so mid and presence are set to null. Keith Scott tracked this solo with a hot Strat bridge pickup pushing a cranked Marshall; selecting the British 80s voice provides the essential mid-forward crunch and singing sustain without needing an external overdrive. Rolling your Strat tone knob down to 7 tames the glassy single-coil top end to match Keith's warm, rounded lead sound. Clean rhythm verses: roll the guitar volume down to 5-6.

PRO TIPKeith Scott picks with the meat of his thumb and index finger simultaneously (hybrid-picking without a pick, or lightly grazing the string after the pick strike) to trigger vocal harmonic overtones that make the high sustained notes bloom.

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