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Afterlife amp settings — Marshal Gold50

The Avenged Sevenfold guitar tone for “Afterlife”, dialed in for a Marshal Gold50 with a ESP LTD EC-1000. Studio version, self-titled album (2007), Schecter into Bogner Ecstasy red channel

Original rig

Schecter Synyster Custom-S (Seymour Duncan Invader bridge), Bogner Ecstasy 101B red channel, Boss SD-1 for boost, Drop D tuning

Tight, aggressive high-gain with controlled low-end, cutting upper-mids, and modern metal articulation

Amp settings — Marshal Gold50

CHANNELOverdrive 2 / OD2 (highest gain channel)BRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	4
Mid	6
Treble	7
Presence	6
Reverb	0
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Why these settings

The Bogner Ecstasy red channel is tighter and more articulate than a typical Marshall voice. Your Gold50 has more mid-bark and looser low-end, so I pulled bass down from the original's 5 to 4, kept mids strong at 6 for that cutting attack, and dropped presence from 7 to 6 to avoid the Marshall's tendency toward fizz at high gain. Gain at 7 gives you the saturation without losing note definition on the palm-muted D-string riffs.

PRO TIPFor the fast palm-muted verse riff, anchor your picking hand firmly on the bridge saddles and use short, aggressive downstrokes with the pick angled slightly — this gives you the percussive 'chug' articulation Gates gets; sloppy muting will turn this tone into mud instantly.

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