Just amp settings — Fender Super Champ XD

The Radiohead guitar tone for “Just”, dialed in for a Fender Super Champ XD with a Epiphone Les Paul Standard 50s. Studio version, The Bends (1995) — Jonny Greenwood heavy rhythm and solos

Original rig

Fender Telecaster Plus (Lace Sensor Blue/Red dually) -> Marshall Shredmaster -> Fender Eighty-Five solid-state clean channel

Brutal, cutting high-gain distortion with raw attack and no tube compression — deliberately harsh and punchy with emphasized mids

Amp settings — Fender Super Champ XD

CHANNELVoice 9 (Super Sonic / High-Gain British)

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	8
Bass	5
Treble	7
Reverb	0
Master	6

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Guitar

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Signal chain

01Marshall Shredmaster (or clone)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned; with the pedal, switch to Channel 1 (Clean) and drop amp gain to 2

Gain 8 · Bass 5 · Contour 4 · Treble 6 · Volume 7

Why these settings

The original sound relies entirely on a Marshall Shredmaster slammed into a solid-state Fender Eighty-Five clean channel. Because you own no pedals, use Channel 2 Voice 9 on the Super Champ XD at gain 8 to generate the aggressive British distortion natively. Keep treble up at 7 to compensate for your Les Paul humbuckers sounding warmer and thicker than Jonny's biting Lace Sensor bridge pickup.

PRO TIPHit the strings violently near the bridge saddle on downstrokes to reproduce Jonny's spiky, percussive attack, and keep your right hand un-muted during the stuttered dead-note chops.

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