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I'm Not The Only One amp settings — Fender Champion 20

The Sam Smith guitar tone for “I'm Not The Only One”, dialed in for a Fender Champion 20 with a Squier Stratocaster Standart Series. Studio version, In the Lonely Hour (2014)

Original rig

Fender Stratocaster through Fender Twin Reverb or Deluxe Reverb, clean with spring reverb and Boss CE-2 Chorus

Warm, intimate clean with spacious reverb, rolled-back highs for a soft, jazzy ballad texture

Amp settings — Fender Champion 20

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Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	5
Mid	4
Treble	4
Presence	0
Reverb	6
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE4 VOLUME8

Signal chain

01Chorus (Boss CE-2 style)

RECOMMENDED — not currently owned. Adds width and shimmer to arpeggios. A Behringer UC200 or TC Electronic Corona Mini gets you there for under $40. Without it, the tone is still usable but will sound narrower and drier.

Rate 3 · Depth 4

Why these settings

Your Champion 20 is a solid-state Fender with similar voicing to the studio Twin/Deluxe but less harmonic richness. Keep gain at 2 for pristine cleans. Treble at 4 compensates for the Squier's brighter ceramic pickups vs vintage Strat pickups; rolling the guitar's tone knob to 4 is critical for that soft, rounded studio sound. The Champion's reverb is digital but functional — 6 gives the spacious, intimate character this ballad needs.

PRO TIPPick over the neck pickup itself (not near the bridge) and use the fleshy part of your fingertip or thumb for arpeggios — this eliminates pick attack and creates the pillowy, almost piano-like quality heard on the record.

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