Afterlife amp settings — Boss Katana 100 MkII
The Avenged sevenfold guitar tone for “Afterlife”, dialed in for a Boss Katana 100 MkII with a Ibanez RG550. Studio version, Avenged Sevenfold (2007) — main rhythm riff
Schecter Synyster Gates Custom (Seymour Duncan SH-8 Invader) into Bogner Uberschall blended with Marshall JVM/JCM800 and Diezel, Boss NS-2
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 7 |
| Bass | 6 |
| Mid | 5 |
| Treble | 7 |
| Presence | 6 |
| Reverb | 0 |
| Master | 5 |
01Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor
Essential in front to tighten aggressive high-gain palm mutes
02EHX Soul Food
Used as a clean boost into the Katana Brown voice to tighten the low end and add pick attack
03Boss GE-7 Equalizer
Post-boost or FX loop to sculpt the Bogner/Marshall composite mid cut
The Katana 100 MkII's Brown amp type delivers the saturated, harmonic-rich character of the original Bogner Uberschall and Marshall blend. The Ibanez RG550's V8 bridge humbucker is tight but has less raw bottom-end output than Synyster Gates' Seymour Duncan Invader, so the Soul Food is engaged as a low-drive, high-level boost to push the front end. The Boss GE-7 shapes the upper-mid cut around 1.6kHz to nail the razor-sharp string definition on down-tuned Drop D riffs without flubbing out the low end. Clean intro arpeggio: switch to Katana Clean channel and kick on the Boss CE-5.
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