Let It Be amp settings — Fender Frontman 20G

The The Beatles guitar tone for “Let It Be”, dialed in for a Fender Frontman 20G with a Fender Player Stratocaster. Album version guitar solo, Let It Be (1970)

Original rig

1957 Gibson Les Paul Standard ('Lucy') with PAF humbuckers into a cranked silverface Fender Twin Reverb

Warm, fat, saturated vintage rock solo with smooth sustain and singing upper mids

Amp settings — Fender Frontman 20G

CHANNELDrive Select ON

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	6
Mid	5
Treble	4
Master	4

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE7 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Overdrive (Ibanez TS9 or Boss BD-2)

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Drive 7 · Tone 4 · Level 6

Why these settings

George Harrison recorded this solo using a humbucker-equipped Les Paul pushed hard into a tube power section, whereas your Stratocaster has brighter, lower-output single coils. Select your neck pickup and roll tone down to 7 while softening treble on the amp to simulate PAF warmth and body. Because the Frontman 20G lacks onboard reverb and relies on solid-state clipping, engage the Drive channel at gain 7 for immediate playable sustain today; adding an external overdrive pedal later will let you switch to the clean channel for smoother tube-style saturation.

PRO TIPDig in with the flesh of your pick thumb slightly brushing the string right after the pick strikes to coax out the fat, vocal-like harmonic overtones heard on Harrison's sustained bends.

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