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Comfortable liar amp settings — Fender Champion 50XL

The Chevelle guitar tone for “Comfortable liar”, dialed in for a Fender Champion 50XL with a Legion Carrier. Studio version, Wonder What's Next (2002) — main riff and heavy chorus

Original rig

Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier, PRS Custom 22 with humbuckers

Thick, aggressive drop-tuned alt-metal crunch with scooped low-mids, tight palm-muted low-end, and grinding upper-midrange bite

Amp settings — Fender Champion 50XL

CHANNELMetal 2000 (Red LED voice)BOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	8
Bass	6
Treble	7
Reverb	0
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Why these settings

Set the Champion 50XL Voice knob to 'Metal 2000' (Red) to emulate the cascading high-gain saturation of Pete Loeffler's Dual Rectifier. Keep the bass at 6 to prevent the 12-inch Celestion speaker from flubbing on the low drop-tunings while pushing treble to 7 for the signature abrasive attack. The Champion 50XL faceplate has a 2-band EQ and no presence control, so mid and presence are set to null. Clean verse: roll guitar volume down to 4 or switch to the clean channel.

PRO TIPTune down to Drop B (B-F#-B-E-G#-C#) with heavy gauge strings (at least .011-.054) and dig in hard with a thick pick right over the bridge pickup to get the punchy, percussive chug.

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