Supersonic amp settings — Fender Hot Rod Deluxe IV

The Oasis guitar tone for “Supersonic”, dialed in for a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe IV with a Squier Bullet Stratocaster. Studio version, Definitely Maybe (1994) — recorded as a demo in 11 hours, December 1993

Original rig

Noel: Epiphone Les Paul Standard → Watkins Dominator MKIII (lead). Bonehead: Gibson SG → Marshall JCM900 (rhythm). Lexicon PCM70 reverb on vocals, Roland Space Echo used elsewhere on sessions.

Raw, gritty British crunch with aggressive midrange bark and loose low-end thump — demo-quality saturation, not polished high-gain

Amp settings — Fender Hot Rod Deluxe IV

CHANNELDrive channelBRIGHToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	5
Mid	7
Treble	5
Presence	6
Reverb	2
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Tube Screamer (TS9) or clone

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Essential for pushing the Fender into Marshall-like midrange grind. Without this, the Hot Rod Deluxe stays too clean and scooped to nail the Oasis bark.

Drive 4 · Tone 6 · Level 7

Why these settings

The original used humbuckers (Les Paul, SG) into British amps (Marshall, Watkins) — mid-forward, warm saturation. Your Fender is naturally scooped and bright, and your Strat's single coils are thinner and brighter than humbuckers. Compensated by pushing mids +2 vs typical Oasis settings, cutting treble -3, and pulling bass -3 to avoid flub. The Hot Rod Deluxe's drive channel is usable but needs a TS-style pedal in front to add the midrange hump and push it into proper crunch — without it, you'll get fizzy Fender breakup instead of that chewy British grind.

PRO TIPRoll your Strat's tone knob to 7 and dig in hard with downstrokes near the bridge — the Definitely Maybe tone came from aggressive picking attack into amps on the edge of breakup, not from maxed-out gain. That percussive attack is half the sound.

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