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Owner of a Lonely Heart amp settings — Fender Champion 40

The Yes guitar tone for “Owner of a Lonely Heart”, dialed in for a Fender Champion 40 with a Ibanez GIO GRG170DX. Studio version, 90125 (1983) — iconic opening riff and main rhythm crunch

Original rig

1962 Fender Stratocaster (DiMarzio FS-1 bridge pickup) -> Boss DS-1 Distortion -> two cranked 100W Marshall 2203 JMP MKII heads -> Marshall 1960 4x12 cabs

Aggressive, tight, mid-pushed 80s hard-rock crunch with sharp upper-mid bite and tight low end

Amp settings — Fender Champion 40

CHANNELChannel 1 (Clean)BOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Boss DS-1 Distortion

Primary distortion source direct into clean channel

Tone 5 · Level 7 · Dist 6

Why these settings

Per double-gain prevention, the Champion 40 is set to its clean Channel 1 with gain dropped to 2 while the Boss DS-1 provides the primary clipping. The Champion 40 lacks a physical mid knob (and presence knob), so the bass is trimmed to 4 and treble pushed to 6 to emulate Trevor Rabin's tight, mid-forward Marshall 2203 rhythm sound through the amp's open-back speaker. The bridge humbucker on the Ibanez GIO provides the punch and output needed to match Rabin's overwound DiMarzio FS-1 pickup.

PRO TIPPick aggressively with a heavy gauge pick right over the bridge pickup and use strict palm muting on the open string chugs to nail the precise, gating-style tightness of the opening riff.

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