Everlong amp settings — Fender Champion 20

The Foo Fighters guitar tone for “Everlong”, dialed in for a Fender Champion 20 with a Ibrah music Ibrah music stratocaster. Studio version, The Colour and the Shape (1997) — iconic main drop-D verse and chorus riffs

Original rig

Gibson Trini Lopez (ES-335 style humbuckers) into Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier (Modern channel) blended with Marshall JCM900/Plexi and ProCo Rat

Punchy, saturated post-grunge crunch with tight low end and aggressive pick attack

Amp settings — Fender Champion 20

CHANNELVoice: Metal (voice 1 / '90s Metal model)BOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	6
Treble	7
Reverb	2
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01ProCo Rat 2

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned; add later in front of a clean Fender voice to replicate Dave Grohl's exact front-end drive

Distortion 6 · Filter 5 · Volume 7

Why these settings

The Champion 20 lacks a dedicated mid knob, so dial the Voice selector to the '90s Metal setting to engage the pre-shaped modern high-gain curve. Because single-coil pickups have less output and low-end girth than Dave's humbuckers, gain is pushed to 7 and bass to 6 to fill out the drop-D chug. Clean verse: roll guitar volume knob down to 5 for instant clean-up without changing channels.

PRO TIPTune your low E string down to Drop D and use aggressive, relentless downstrokes with a heavy 1.0mm+ pick right over the bridge pickup to nail the tight percussive attack of the opening riff.

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