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Stiches amp settings — Fender Champion 20

The Nervepitch guitar tone for “Stiches”, dialed in for a Fender Champion 20 with a Gibson Les Paul Modern. Studio version, How We Change EP (2001) / ...my sombre existence... (2003)

Original rig

Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier / Marshall high-gain half stack + humbucker-equipped drop-tuned guitar

Aggressive, scooped, high-gain nu-metal rhythm crunch with thick low-end thump
Amp settings — Fender Champion 20
CHANNELMetal 2000 (Voice selector)
GAIN 8 BASS 8 TREBLE 6 REVERB 0 MASTER 4
KnobSetting (0–10)
Gain8
Bass8
Treble6
Reverb0
Master4
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PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10
Why these settings

The Champion 20 lacks a dedicated mid knob and presence control, but setting the Voice selector to 'Metal 2000' emulates the cascaded high-gain Mesa Rectifier tone used on the recording. Bass is boosted to 8 to give the 8-inch practice speaker low-end authority for drop tunings. The DS-1 is bypassed to avoid double-gain fizz, letting the onboard digital high-gain model generate the saturated rhythm crunch directly.

PRO TIPDrop tune your Les Paul to Drop C (C-G-C-F-A-D) and use aggressive, palm-muted downpicking right next to the bridge saddles for maximum percussive chunk.

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