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God hates us amp settings — Valeton GP5

The Avenged Sevenfold guitar tone for “God hates us”, dialed in for a Valeton GP5 with a Jackson JS32 Dinky. Studio version, Nightmare (2010) — heavy main riff

Original rig

Schecter Synyster Custom (Seymour Duncan Invader) into Bogner Uberschall / Marshall JVM410H into Mesa/Marshall 4x12 cabs

Aggressive, razor-sharp modern high-gain metal rhythm with tight palm-muted low end and saturated upper mids

Amp settings — Valeton GP5

CHANNELGerman/Uberschall or 5150 high-gain amp modelBOOSTon

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	6
Mid	5
Treble	7
Presence	6
Reverb	1
Master	7

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01TS-style Overdrive block

Pre-amp boost to tighten palm-muted chugs and cut low-end flub

Drive 0 · Tone 7 · Level 8

02Noise Gate block

Essential clamp for fast staccato riff stops

Threshold 6 · Decay 2

Why these settings

The Jackson JS32 ceramic high-output bridge humbucker matches Synyster Gates' hot pickup punch well. Running the TS-style boost with zero drive and high level into a modern high-gain amp block replicates the tight Bogner/JVM tracking without flubbing out in Drop D. Keep the mids around 5 so the guitars retain attack rather than disappearing in a deep scoop. For the clean intro section, switch to a pristine clean amp block with bridge pickup rolled back to volume 7.

PRO TIPLock down aggressive right-hand palm muting directly against the bridge saddles with a stiff 1.5mm+ pick to get the punchy, percussive attack heard on the opening chugs.

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