Sink amp settings — Fender Champion 20

The Plastic Tree guitar tone for “Sink”, dialed in for a Fender Champion 20 with a Squier Affinity Telecaster. Studio version, 'Sink' single (1998), also on Premium Best ~2010 Expanded Edition~ remaster

Original rig

Roland JC-120 clean platform with Boss distortion pedals (likely DS-1 or DS-2), Fender Japan Telecaster and ESP guitars with humbuckers, chorus and delay effects. Tadashi Hasegawa's tone relies on a clean amp pushed by pedal gain for that dense, layered Visual Kei wall-of-sound.

Thick, saturated mid-gain distortion with chorus shimmer, dense layered rhythm tone with defined attack - classic late 90s Japanese rock/Visual Kei distortion

Amp settings — Fender Champion 20

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Boss DS-1 Distortion

Primary gain source - amp stays clean, all saturation from DS-1

Tone 6 · Level 7 · Dist 7

Why these settings

Your DS-1 into a clean Champion 20 mirrors Plastic Tree's pedal-into-clean-amp approach. The Champion 20 has no mid knob, so bass 5 and treble 6 approximate the original's mid-forward density. Amp gain at 2 keeps headroom clean while the DS-1 delivers all saturation. Rolling tone knob to 7 on your Tele tames the single-coil ice-pick that humbuckers wouldn't have.

PRO TIPThe original has layered guitars with subtle chorus - if you add a chorus pedal later, run it AFTER the DS-1 at a slow rate (2-3) and low depth (3-4) to get that shimmering Visual Kei width without washing out the distortion's definition.

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