Everlong amp settings — Fender Champion 50XL

The Foo fighters guitar tone for “Everlong”, dialed in for a Fender Champion 50XL with a Strich Stratocaster. Studio version, The Colour and the Shape (1997) — main riff and heavy choruses

Original rig

Gibson ES-335 into Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier (Red Channel) blended with Fender Tone Master, 4x12 cab with Celestion V30s

Thick, high-gain post-grunge wall-of-sound with aggressive upper-mid punch

Amp settings — Fender Champion 50XL

CHANNELClean channel (Voice off / bypassed)BOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Boss DS-1 Distortion

Gain source — drives the clean Fender platform into thick Mesa-style grunge saturation

Tone 4 · Level 7 · Dist 8

Why these settings

The Champion 50XL is set as a clean pedal platform with gain dropped to 2 to prevent double-gain mud with your DS-1 providing the heavy post-grunge crunch. Bass is pushed to 7 on the amp and the DS-1 Tone is backed off to 4 (around 11 o'clock) to compensate for the brighter, thinner Strat single-coil pickups compared to Grohl's Gibson humbuckers. Clean intro and verses: simply step on the DS-1 to bypass it.

PRO TIPEverlong requires Drop D tuning (D-A-D-G-B-E); hit the open D power chord hard near the bridge using firm downstrokes to nail the signature percussive chug.

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