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Rock and Roll amp settings — Fender Champion 40

The Led Zeppelin guitar tone for “Rock and Roll”, dialed in for a Fender Champion 40 with a Ibanez GIO GRG170DX. Studio cut, Led Zeppelin IV (1971) - main rhythm and lead riff

Original rig

1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard ('Number 1') into a cranked Marshall Super Lead 1959 100W Plexi with an Echoplex EP-3 preamp boost

Raw, bright, mid-forward vintage British crunch with open string definition

Amp settings — Fender Champion 40

CHANNELBritish 70s (Voice 8)

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Klone Centaur

Used as an Echoplex-style clean/treble preamp boost to tighten the low end and push the amp model's front end

Gain 2 · Treble 6 · Output 7

Why these settings

The Fender Champion 40 only has Bass and Treble controls (no Mid or Presence knobs), so Mid and Presence are set to null. Selecting the '70s British' voice recreates the cranked Marshall Plexi response, while running the Klon clone as a low-gain, high-output clean boost mimics Jimmy Page's EP-3 preamp push into the front of the amp. Treble is pushed to 7 on the amp and 6 on the pedal to compensate for the darker ceramic humbuckers on the Ibanez GIO.

PRO TIPPick aggressively close to the bridge saddle with the edge of a heavy plectrum to get that snappy, biting top-end attack Jimmy Page achieves on the intro and verses.

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