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Under the Bridge amp settings — Fender Champion 20

The Red Hot Chili Peppers guitar tone for “Under the Bridge”, dialed in for a Fender Champion 20 with a Cort CR300. Studio version, Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991) intro & verse

Original rig

1966 Fender Jaguar / 1962 Fender Stratocaster (neck/middle) into Marshall Major 200W / Silver Jubilee 2555 with MXR Dyna Comp

Snappy, percussive, glassy vintage clean with high presence and subtle compression

Amp settings — Fender Champion 20

CHANNEL'60s (Blackface Clean) voice

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	3
Bass	4
Treble	8
Reverb	2
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPneck+middle TONE10 VOLUME8

Signal chain

01MXR Dyna Comp

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned

Output 7 · Sensitivity 4

Why these settings

The Fender Champion 20 lacks physical Middle and Presence knobs, so top-end clarity must be shaped entirely via the Treble control pushed to 8. Because the Cort CR300 has PAF-voiced humbuckers rather than Frusciante's vintage single-coils, rolling guitar volume down to 8 and setting the amp bass to 4 trims the thick lower-mids to emulate Stratocaster snap. The '60s Blackface voice provides the necessary clean headroom and chime without preamp clipping.

PRO TIPUse thumb-over fretting and snappy hybrid or thumb/finger pluck attacks on the double-stops to get Frusciante's distinct percussive transient pop.

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