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Smoke on the water amp settings — Fender Champion 40

The Deep purple guitar tone for “Smoke on the water”, dialed in for a Fender Champion 40 with a Ibanez GIO GRG170DX. Studio version, Machine Head (1972) — main intro/rhythm riff

Original rig

1968 Fender Stratocaster (bridge+neck or bridge) -> Hornby-Skewes Treble Booster -> 200W Marshall Major Model 1967

Punchy, dry, biting British crunch with prominent upper-mid attack and tight low end

Amp settings — Fender Champion 40

CHANNELChannel 2 (British/70s Crunch voice)BOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	3
Bass	6
Treble	5
Reverb	0
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Klon Centaur

Used as primary overdrive into the clean/edge platform to replicate the Marshall Major + Treble Booster bite

Gain 6 · Treble 5 · Output 6

Why these settings

The Champion 40 lacks a dedicated mid knob and presence control, so the Voice dial is set to 70s British to supply the essential Marshall midrange bark. Because the Klon is engaged as the primary drive source, the amp gain is kept low at 3 to prevent muddy double-gain stacking. Treble is kept moderate at 5 to balance the high-output humbuckers on the Ibanez against Blackmore's bright Strat tone.

PRO TIPPluck the famous fourths using your thumb and index fingers simultaneously rather than a pick—Blackmore finger-plucks the intro riff to give it that snappy, percussive attack and clean chord separation.

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