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Unholy Confessions amp settings — Boss GT-1

The Avenged Sevenfold guitar tone for “Unholy Confessions”, dialed in for a Boss GT-1 with a Jackson JS22 Dinky. Studio version, Waking the Fallen (2003) - Main iconic rhythm and intro riff

Original rig

Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier & Bogner Uberschall into 4x12 cabs, Gibson Les Paul Custom / Schecter S-1 with high-output bridge humbuckers

Aggressive early-2000s metalcore crunch with tight low-end, punchy upper mids, and sharp pick attack
Amp settings — Boss GT-1
CHANNELPREAMP: R-FIER VINTAGE (or BG DRIVE) amp model + 4x12 cab simBOOSToff
GAIN 7 BASS 5 MID 6 TREBLE 7 PRESENCE 6 REVERB 1 MASTER 7
KnobSetting (0–10)
Gain7
Bass5
Mid6
Treble7
Presence6
Reverb1
Master7
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Guitar
PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10
Signal chain

01FX1/OD: T-SCREAM (Tube Screamer boost)

Tightens the low end into the high-gain amp model

Drive 0 · Tone 6 · Level 8

02NS (Noise Suppressor)

Essential for clamping fast palm-muted stabs

Threshold 6 · Release 3
Why these settings

The Boss GT-1 R-Fier model accurately reproduces the scooped low-end sag of the Dual Rectifier, so we use the T-Scream block with zero drive and high level up front to tighten the bass response for fast 16th-note alternate picking. The Jackson JS22 ceramic pickups are naturally bright, so keeping the preamp bass at 5 and mids at 6 prevents the tone from sounding thin or excessively harsh.

PRO TIPAnchor your palm firmly against the bridge saddle to execute heavy, percussive palm mutes on the open D string, using aggressive downward wrist attack to get the signature percussive 'chunk'.

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