Requiem (2005 Digital Remaster) amp settings — Fender Champion 40
The Killing Joke guitar tone for “Requiem (2005 Digital Remaster)”, dialed in for a Fender Champion 40 with a Ibanez GIO GRG170DX. Studio version, Killing Joke self-titled debut album (1980)
1952 Gibson ES-295 (hollowbody with P-90s in D standard / whole-step down) into Bell & Howell Filmosound 385 projector tube amp conversion into a 4x12 cab, with an Electro-Harmonix Memory Man (or Bell ADT) for lush chorus/metallic doubling
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 2 |
| Bass | 5 |
| Treble | 7 |
| Reverb | 0 |
| Master | 5 |
01Klone Centaur
Primary drive providing the touch-sensitive harmonic edge and upper-mid bite of Geordie's cranked projector tube circuit.
02Boss CH-1 Super Chorus
Essential for the wide, metallic, doubling modulation that defines Walker's wall-of-sound rhythm tone.
03Boss DD-8 Digital Delay
Standard mode; set to a tight slapback doubling (around 80-100ms) to emulate early studio tape/ADT thickening.
The Fender Champion 40 operates on Channel 1 as a clean platform (with presence and mid controls naturally absent on this faceplate). Geordie Walker created his signature grind using hollowbody resonance and a driven Bell & Howell tube projector amp, which is replicated here using the Klone Centaur's mid-push into the clean channel. The Boss CH-1 combined with a tight DD-8 slapback recreates the sweeping, metallic spatial width of the original recording.
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