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Hail to the King amp settings — Mighty 20 mk2 20 mk2

The Avenged Sevenfold guitar tone for “Hail to the King”, dialed in for a Mighty 20 mk2 20 mk2 with a Ibanez GIO GRG170DX. Studio album cut, Hail to the King (2013)

Original rig

Schecter Synyster Custom (Seymour Duncan Invader bridge pickup) into Schecter Hellwin USA 100W Head (Lead channel) with Fractal Axe-Fx II processing in loop

Punchy, modern high-gain British bite with thick lower-mids and tight palm-muting

Amp settings — Mighty 20 mk2 20 mk2

CHANNELLead (Mighty 20 MKII high-gain amp model)BOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	6
Mid	7
Treble	7
Reverb	2
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Gate / Noise Suppressor

Built-in NUX Mighty noise gate block to keep high-gain staccato riffs tight

Threshold 6 · Decay 3

Why these settings

The NUX Mighty 20 MKII utilizes a digital high-gain lead voice; setting gain to 7 delivers the punchy compression of Synyster's Hellwin amp without fizz. Your Ibanez GIO's Infinity R bridge humbucker is slightly lower output than Synyster's high-output Seymour Duncan Invader, so pushing the midrange to 7 maintains the necessary low-mid punch and harmonic bite. The physical faceplate lacks a presence control, so top-end presence is compensated via treble at 7.

PRO TIPSynyster Gates plays the fast arpeggiated intro lick in Drop C# tuning using strict economy picking, anchoring his palm near the bridge saddles for instantaneous muting between phrases.

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