Tone library / Cream / Sunshine of Your Love

Sunshine of Your Love amp settings — Fender Champion 40

The Cream guitar tone for “Sunshine of Your Love”, dialed in for a Fender Champion 40 with a Ibanez GIO GRG170DX. Studio version, Disraeli Gears (1967) - iconic main riff

Original rig

1964 Gibson SG ('The Fool') with PAF humbuckers -> Vox V846 Wah -> 100W Marshall JTM100 / Super Lead cranked on the Normal channel

Thick, creamy, vocal overdrive with extreme high-end rolloff ('Woman Tone')

Amp settings — Fender Champion 40

CHANNELChannel 1 (Clean)BOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Bass	7
Treble	4
Reverb	2
Master	5

Don’t have a Fender Champion 40? See this song on other amps → Match your own rig →

Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE0 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01EHX Big Muff Pi

Provides the thick, singing vintage fuzz saturation into the clean Fender voice

Volume 6 · Tone 3 · Sustain 7

Why these settings

To capture Clapton's cranked JTM100 saturation on a solid-state Fender Champion 40, we use Channel 1 as a clean platform and generate the smooth, compressed sustain using the EHX Big Muff Pi. On the guitar, the tone knob must be rolled completely down to 0 on the neck humbucker to produce the legendary 'Woman Tone'. Amp treble is backed off to 4 while bass is kept at 7 to maintain a deep, rounded body without harsh solid-state transients.

PRO TIPPick with the meat of your thumb or edge of the pick close to the neck pickup rather than over the bridge to soften attack transient and maximize the hollow, flute-like vocal resonance.

Get this tone on your amp

These settings are for a Fender Champion 40. ToneAdapt matches any song to whatever amp, guitar and pedals you own — first match is free.

Get ToneAdapt on Google Play

More tones for the Fender Champion 40

JungleJimi Hendrix Basket caseGreenday Never meantAmerican football Enter SandmanMetallica Born DeadSilverstein Translating the nameSaosin

Find your amp

Browse

Fender Champion 40 settingsALL SONGS FOR THIS AMP Sunshine of Your Love on other ampsSAME SONG, YOUR AMP Ibanez GIO GRG170DX tonesSAME GUITAR Tone libraryEVERYTHING

Song, artist and gear names are used to identify the tone being matched; ToneAdapt is not affiliated with or endorsed by the artists or manufacturers mentioned. Settings are AI-generated starting points — trust your ears.