Pneuma amp settings — Fender Champion 40

The TOOL guitar tone for “Pneuma”, dialed in for a Fender Champion 40 with a Tube screamer Tube screamer. Studio version, Fear Inoculum (2019) — main heavy progressive riff

Original rig

1979 Gibson Les Paul Custom Silverburst (Seymour Duncan Distortion) into Diezel VH4 (Channel 3) blended with vintage Marshall Super Bass and Boss DD-3 / MXR Carbon Copy delay

Thick, articulate, mid-heavy high-gain crunch with tight percussive low end and analog delay repeats

Amp settings — Fender Champion 40

CHANNELMetal voice (Voice setting 10 / Metal 2000)BOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9

Used as a clean mid-boost to tighten the low end into the high-gain voice

Drive 0 · Tone 6 · Level 8

02Boss BF-3 Flanger

Engage for signature Tool sweeping texture during atmospheric passages

Manual 6 · Depth 7 · Rate 4 · Res 5

03Boss DM-2W Waza Delay

Set to Standard (S) mode for warm analog rhythmic repeats matching the polyrhythmic delays

Repeat Rate 4 · Intensity 4 · Echo 4

Why these settings

The Fender Champion 40 lacks a mid knob, so select the high-gain Metal voice and push the Ibanez TS9 as a clean boost with Drive at 0 to focus the essential 800Hz-1kHz midrange bite. The Champion 40 faceplate only features Bass and Treble controls (no Mid or Presence knobs), so Bass is kept at 6 to mimic Adam Jones's tight low end without flubbing the 12-inch open-back combo speaker. Clean intro passage: switch to Voice 1 (Clean) and engage the BF-3 flanger with light delay.

PRO TIPAdam Jones's attack relies on aggressive, heavy downpicking right near the bridge saddles combined with pick-slanting to generate articulate, percussive chug harmonics.

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