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Owner of a Lonely Heart SOLO amp settings — Fender Champion 40

The Yes guitar tone for “Owner of a Lonely Heart SOLO”, dialed in for a Fender Champion 40 with a Ibanez GIO GRG170DX. Studio version, 90125 (1983) guitar solo

Original rig

1962 Fender Stratocaster (DiMarzio FS-1 bridge pickup) -> Boss DS-1 Distortion -> MXR Model 129 Pitch Transposer (+5th interval) -> two 100W Marshall 2203 JMP MKII heads into 4x12 cabs

Aggressive, compressed hard-rock lead distortion with a pronounced pitch-shifted parallel 5th harmony

Amp settings — Fender Champion 40

CHANNELClean (Channel 1)BOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Bass	4
Treble	6
Reverb	0
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Boss DS-1 Distortion

Main drive source pushing into the clean amp

Tone 6 · Level 7 · Dist 8

02Boss RV-6 Reverb

Set mode to Room or Plate to replicate studio board ambience

E.Level 3 · Tone 5 · Time 4 · Mode 1

Why these settings

The Fender Champion 40 on Channel 1 is a pristine clean platform, so your owned Boss DS-1 supplies 100% of the distortion to mirror Trevor Rabin's front-end drive without muddying the preamp. The Champion 40 lacks a physical Mid knob on Channel 1 and has no Presence control, so Bass is kept tight at 4 and Treble at 6 to tame the hotter bridge humbucker on your Ibanez GIO. Because you do not own a pitch shifter (Rabin used an MXR Pitch Transposer for the parallel fifth), a dedicated harmonizer/pitch pedal is recommended to fully replicate the signature synth-like sound.

PRO TIPTrevor Rabin's iconic solo was tracked in one take with an MXR Pitch Transposer generating a fixed +7 semitone (perfect 5th) harmony in parallel; to simulate this without a pitch shifter, aggressively dig into the bridge humbucker with a stiff pick near the bridge saddles to emphasize upper harmonic overtones.

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