Originally Posted by: muddjay

Ok, So I i'm way new to this and looking for some advice on dialing in my Fender Champion 20. Treble, Bass and Gain i understand. What i'm looking for is; where do i set the voice and fx? I'm playin on a '96 Gibson The Paul II and looking to play some blues. Any suggestions? I'm afraid ill go blind if i play with it any more.

That's always a hard questions to answer. Mostly because what you want to hear is up to your ears. I don't know this amp but general for amps is how much overdrive matters. I would spend very little time messing with the effects looking for tone. That's frosting. Good frosting and you will add it but do you're best to not add effects until the end.

Blues generally does not have any distortion but has overdrive.

So for the Champ, go for the Tweed or Blackface voice. I would start with tweed and see how that goes. You want to slowly bring up the Gain to find a sweet spot where the signal is just starting to break up in to overdrive. Bass and Treble are more to taste but given that you only have two controls (no mid pot), zero them out and just hit the open Low E and slowly bring up the Bass until it sound like it has some beef. It won't sound nice but you'll hear the body. Then slowly bring up the Treble. This brings the definition. For your amp: Bass=Body and Treble=Definition. Play some chords and salt to taste. You'll fine tune a bit more.

For effects (FX), I'm not a big effects junky so I'm really not one to ask. I usually add a light amount of reverb and leave it at that.

This may not help but it's how I would approach it. I've played a ton of amps in my day. Back in the 80's, the guitar store I hung out at eventually just had me try out amps to get me out of their hair but I could take any amp and find its sweet spot. Make your baseline andset it all at zero and 'troubleshoot' your way by adding each element.

The trick is not to hope for a magical setting that does it for you. You and I will find a different sweet spot based on our ear and how we play. The above approach comes from having tried many, many amps and learning how to build tone in any amp.[br][br]It's about building tone and not finding it.