Basically mic’d up the Champion as pictured below,

Volume set at,

Fender Telecaster fitted with Seymour Duncan bridge pickup,

Because the Boss GT-8 has a ridiculous amount of effects we decided to record just a selection of what we could.

We used no additonal effects – we’ve also tried to show what the effects can do, in some recordings we’ve gone with the stock settings. In other recordings we’ve tried to showcase what the effect can do.

Autowah

Chorus

Tremelo

Vibrato

Reverse Delay

Slicer

Humanizer

Harmonist

Plate Reverb

Sitar

Spring Reverb

Uni V

Warp Delay

Wave Synth 1

Wave Synth 2

Equipment Used:

Microphones – Shure sm57 and sm58.

Mixing Desk – Behringer Xenyx 1622.

Planet Waves guitar cables.

Fender Telecaster(mexican)

Below are recordings of some of the more famous effects.

Basically mic’d up the Chimp as pictured below,

Volume set at,

Fender Telecaster fitted with Seymour Duncan bridge pickup,

(Amp shown in picture below is Fender Champion 600)

Again because the Boss GT-8 has a ridiculous amount of effects we decided to record just a selection of what we could without messing with the settings.

We used no reverb, compression or delay just Distortion or Overdrive.

The playing on these records veers from sensible to half arsed clownshoes style stunt guitar.

Please engage your sense of humour when listening.

OD1

60′s Muff

Muff Fuzz

Oct Fuzz

Distortion

Heavy Metal

Metal Zone

Equipment Used:

Microphones – Shure sm57 and sm58.

Mixing Desk – Behringer Xenyx 1622.

Planet Waves guitar cables.

Fender Telecaster(mexican)

Basically mic’d up the Champion as pictured below,

Volume set at,

Fender Telecaster fitted with Seymour Duncan bridge pickup,

Because the Boss GT-8 has a ridiculous amount of effects we decided to record just a selection of what we could without messing with the settings.

We used no reverb, compression or delay just Distortion or Overdrive.

The playing got a little bit silly please have a sense of humour when listening and bear in mind that I am promarily a punk and country style guitarist.

OD1

60′s Muff

Muff Fuzz

Oct Fuzz

Distortion

Heavy Metal

Metal Zone

Equipment Used:

Microphones – Shure sm57 and sm58.

Mixing Desk – Behringer Xenyx 1622.

Planet Waves guitar cables.

Fender Telecaster(mexican)

I’ll let you be the judge.

My opinion is that this is a great amp for the money.

Prices vary between £125 and £140 dependant on where you purchase.

Usual blurb product blurb:  Scroll past to get to audio

The Fender Champion 600 is a fun and affordable tribute to a rare and historic Fender amp.

The Fender Champion 600 is a 5-watt tube amp with a 6” speaker and 1950 “two-tone” looks. We added a higher-gain preamp circuit to let the overdriven tone exceed that of the original, and we added a choice of high- or low-gain inputs. Internal speaker jack enables use of a larger speaker cabinet.

Fender Champion 600 main features include:

• Type: TUBE AMPLIFIER
• Output: 5 watts
• Ohms: 4 ohms
• Speakers: One 6″, 4-ohm Special Design driver with ceramic magnet (0073904000)
• Channels: Two (Instrument and Microphone)
• Tube Preamp and Tube Power Amp (One 12AX7 tube; One 6V6 tube).
• 5 watts into a 6″ Special Design speaker.
• High-gain and low-gain inputs; hotter preamp circuit than the 1950 original for warm natural overdrive when turned up.
• Single volume control.
• External speaker output.
• Brown and blonde vinyl covering; vintage-correct 1950 “two-tone” cosmetics.
• Leather strap handle.
• Red jewel pilot light.
• Controls Volume
• Weight 15 lbs. (7 kg)
• Dimensions Height: 11″ (28 cm), Width: 12″ (31 cm), Depth: 7.5″ (19 cm)
• Tube Complement 1-12AX7A, 1-6V6 (diode rectifier

The recording of these audio examples was done with two shure dynamic mics – I’m experimenting at the moment so bare with me.

I’ve used an sm57 and an sm58.

Like I said I’ve moved these around until I was reasonably happy.

Amp has been placed off the ground on a very small stool and in the centre of the room – my house is open plan.

I’ve played using a Fender Telecaster (mexican) fitted with a Seymour Duncan at the bridge.

As you can see I’ve got the Tele going through an Electro Harmonix double muff.

I’ve set the Fender Champions amp volume to between 6 and 7.

Other equipment used for reference,

behringer 1622fx, standard XLR mic cables and Planet Waves guitar cables.

Recorded to PC using Sonar.

No fx or processing used.

Each audio example has been played three times:

Pedal State:

Clean(bypass) -> Single Muff on -> double muff on.

Guitar: for each pedal state.

Toggle switch down -> middle -> up.

First Example: Open Chords

Second Example: Funky

Example Three: Palm Mute and Power Chords

Finally Example Four: Lead

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Hope you enjoyed my hacking, note: you may if wearing headphones notice that the amp has quite a strong hum.

When you’re playing it’s not that big a deal and if recording it is only really apparent when listening on headphones.

Listening through my monitors it doesn’t seem that much of a problem.

When I record my next song using this amp I’ll report on how the hum affects the track.

Until then.

Enjoy.

Qamp is a amp simulation VST plugin,

Amp distortion with speaker simulation, feedback and EQ.

Controls are

Tone         – tone of pre-amp
Emp          – emphasis of pre-amp
Boost         – Pre-amp boost
Sat          – Saturation of pre-amp
Syn          – Pre-amp rectification
Wave        – Wavetype

Len         – Feed len
Feed        – Feed vol
Width        – Feed width
Speed        – Feed speed
Filter        – Feed filter

Model       – type of amp simulation
Boost       – amp simulation boost
Sat         – amp simulation saturation
Sym         – amp simulation rectification

Low         – low band eq volume
Mid         – mid band eq volume
Hi         – high band eq volume

Volume        – main volume

TubeBaby is a digital simulation of a tube guitar amplifier. As such it features the standard controls found on a real amplifier, namely gain, bass, mid, treble, presence, master and a switch for activating the high gain mode of the preamp stage. The latest version also features a menu that lets you choose between three amplifier types, five cabinet emulations and the amount of high frequency passing through the power amp section.

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Desire Analog…Embrace Digital! ‘ ~Studio Devil Team

Looking for another guitar effects plugin to add to your collection?

Well take a look at the 8505 Lead Guitar Amp designed by Nick Crow.

I found this purely by accident, not tested it yet but will do in the next few days.

Meanwhile back in the jungle…

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Clean Telecaster – Chords – Gain 7 o’clock

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Clean Telecaster – Echo – Chords – Gain 7 o’clock

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Clean Telecaster – Echo & Tremelo -  Gain 7 o’clock

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Clean Telecaster – Lead – Gain 7 o’clock

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Clean Telecaster – Lead with Echo – Gain 7 o’clock

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Clean with Tremelo – Gain 7 o’clock

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Dirty – Chords – Open, Powerchords and Barre – Gain 12 o’clock

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Dirty – Lead – Gain 12 o’clock

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Amp Settings:-

Tone: 12 o’clock

Gain: 2 o’clock

Volume: 12 o’clock

Guitar Settings:

Volumes and Tones set to full – toggle switch up.

E-Tuning for slide – brass slide.

Slide guitar played with pick – ‘Gain Only’

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Slide guitar played with fingers – ‘Gain Only’

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Slide guitar played with pick – ‘Gain and Echo’

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Slide guitar played with fingers – ‘Gain and Echo’

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Slide guitar played with pick – ‘Gain and Tremelo’

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Slide guitar played with fingers – ‘Gain and Tremelo’

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Slide guitar played with pick – ‘Gain, Echo and Tremelo’

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