About A Girl amp settings — Fender Champion II 100

The Nirvana guitar tone for “About A Girl”, dialed in for a Fender Champion II 100 with a Ibanez Gio GRX70QA. Studio album version, Bleach (1989), recorded at Reciprocal Recording with Jack Endino

Original rig

Univox Hi-Flier (Phase 3 with humbuckers/single coils) into a borrowed Twin Reverb / solid-state combo, driven clean/edge-of-breakup with Boss DS-1 on the solo

Raw, bright, jangly clean chord strumming with dry attack and subtle edge

Amp settings — Fender Champion II 100

CHANNELClean (Channel 1)BOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	3
Bass	5
Mid	6
Treble	7
Reverb	1
Master	4

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge+middle TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Boss DS-1 Distortion

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned; engage for the guitar solo

Tone 5 · Level 7 · Dist 8

Why these settings

The Fender Champion II 100 features a dedicated 3-band EQ and standard Fender clean voicing that mirrors the raw jangly clean heard on Bleach. We set treble to 7 and mids to 6 on the clean channel to push the percussive chime and cut through humbuckers. Presence is set to null as the Champion II 100 faceplate does not feature a presence control.

PRO TIPStrum aggressively near the bridge with an open, loose wrist to capture Kurt's bright, percussive acoustic-like attack on electric chords.

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