Dancing Dead amp settings — Fender Frontman 15g
The Avenged Sevenfold guitar tone for “Dancing Dead”, dialed in for a Fender Frontman 15g with a Squire Affinity Stratocaster. Studio recording, Diamonds in the Rough (2008)
Schecter Synyster Custom (Seymour Duncan Invader humbuckers) into Bogner Uberschall / Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier and Marshall JCM800 heads
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 2 |
| Bass | 6 |
| Mid | 6 |
| Treble | 5 |
| Master | 4 |
Because you own the Boss DS-1, it serves as the primary high-gain distortion source into the Frontman 15G's clean channel to avoid the muddy, buzzy artifacts of stacking into the amp's small solid-state drive circuit. Single-coil Strat pickups are brighter and thinner than Synyster Gates' high-output Seymour Duncan Invader humbuckers, so Tone on the guitar is dialed down to 8 and DS-1 Tone is kept conservative around 4 to cut harsh highs while maintaining punchy low-mids. The Frontman 15G lacks presence and built-in reverb controls, so those are nulled.
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