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When i como aroun amp settings — Fender Champion 20

The Green day guitar tone for “When i como aroun”, dialed in for a Fender Champion 20 with a Squier Bullet Stratocaster. Studio version, Dookie (1994) — signature rhythm overdrive tone

Original rig

Fernandes Strat copy ('Blue') with angled bridge humbucker (Bill Lawrence / Duncan JB) into modified Marshall 1959 Super Lead heads ('Pete' Bradshaw crunch mod and 'Meat' SE lead mod)

Punchy, articulate British crunch with tight low-end and forward upper-mids

Amp settings — Fender Champion 20

CHANNELBritish 2 (amber/crunch voice)

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Why these settings

The Champion 20 lacks a dedicated mid knob and presence control, so selecting the 'British' voice supplies the necessary Marshall-style mid bite. Because a Squier Strat with single coils has less output and sharper highs than Billie Joe's bridge humbucker, gain is set slightly higher at 6, bass is pushed to 6, and treble is kept tame at 5. The recording is dry and direct, so leave the onboard FX selector off (reverb at 0).

PRO TIPBillie Joe tunes down a half step (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb) and hits the strings with aggressive, hard downstrokes near the bridge using a medium-heavy pick for that percussive punk attack.

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