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Shepard of fire amp settings — Hartke Gt100

The Avenged sevenfold guitar tone for “Shepard of fire”, dialed in for a Hartke Gt100 with a Schecter Synyster Standard. Studio version, Hail to the King (2013) — Main heavy rhythm riff

Original rig

Schecter Synyster Gates Custom (Seymour Duncan Invader), Bogner Uberschall & Schecter Hellwin 100 heads, overdrive boost in front

Thick modern metal crunch with tight palm mutes, aggressive upper-mids, controlled low end

Amp settings — Hartke Gt100

CHANNELChannel 2 (Lead/High Gain)BRIGHToffBOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Tc electronic Sentry

Tightens fast palm-muted stops and kills front-end hiss

Threshold 6 · Damp 7 · Decay 3

02Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9

Classic boost mode into amp Channel 2 to cut low flub and tighten the attack

Drive 0 · Tone 6 · Level 9

Why these settings

The Hartke GT100 tube/hybrid lead channel delivers heavy saturation, but needs the TS9 up front with zero drive and high level to emulate the tight, punchy attack of the Bogner and Hellwin rigs. Keeping the amp mids pushed at 7 prevents the scoop often found on standard high-gain patches, capturing Synyster's thick rhythm bark. The Sentry noise gate is positioned first to clamp down on the Invader-style high-output bridge pickup during the signature stop-start chugs.

PRO TIPAnchor your picking hand firmly against the bridge saddle to execute aggressive, razor-sharp palm muting; hit the opening D power chords with heavy downward pick force to get the record's low-end percussive crack.

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