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Fortunate Son amp settings — Orange Crush 20

The Creedence Clearwater Revival guitar tone for “Fortunate Son”, dialed in for a Orange Crush 20 with a Squier Affinity Telecaster. Studio version, Willy and the Poor Boys (1969) — main intro/rhythm riff

Original rig

Gibson Les Paul Custom (tuned D standard) -> Kustom K200A-4 solid-state amp (cranked channel drive, dry)

Biting, mid-forward crunch with trebly pick attack and country-rock clarity

Amp settings — Orange Crush 20

CHANNELDirty

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	6
Bass	4
Mid	7
Treble	7
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE9 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9

BOOST — used as a clean mid-push to tighten the Orange low-mids and replicate the bright Kustom solid-state attack

Drive 2 · Tone 6 · Level 7

Why these settings

The Orange Crush 20 naturally has warmer, thicker low-mids than John Fogerty's solid-state Kustom amp, so bass is cut to 4 while mids and treble are pushed high. The TS9 is set with low drive and high level as a boost to add the characteristic upper-mid bite into the amp's Dirty channel. The Telecaster bridge single-coil provides the requisite snap, with the tone rolled off slightly to 9 to prevent ice-pick harshness.

PRO TIPTune your guitar down a full step to D Standard (D-G-C-F-A-D) like Fogerty did on the original track; this gives the intro double-stops their distinct slinky, growling low tension.

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