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Change (in the house of flies) amp settings — Donner Arena 2000

The Deftones guitar tone for “Change (in the house of flies)”, dialed in for a Donner Arena 2000 with a Schecter Damion 7. Studio version, White Pony (2000) — the clean atmospheric verse tone

Original rig

ESP LTD SC-208 Stephen Carpenter Signature 8-string, Fender '65 Twin Reverb Reissue, Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail reverb, Drop C tuning

Clean, shimmering, atmospheric arpeggios with lush reverb — haunting and spacious

Amp settings — Donner Arena 2000

CHANNELClean (Fender Twin model if available, otherwise cleanest voicing)BRIGHToffBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	3
Bass	5
Mid	6
Treble	5
Presence	4
Reverb	6

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Donner Arena 2000 — Hall Reverb Block

Enable a hall or plate reverb block — this is essential to the track's atmosphere. If the unit has a shimmer or modulated reverb option, it works well here too.

Decay/Time 7 · Mix/Level 6 · Tone 5

Why these settings

The original uses a pristine Fender Twin Reverb clean tone — your Arena 2000 should use its cleanest amp model with gain kept low to preserve headroom. The 7-string Schecter's humbuckers are hotter than Carpenter's extended-range guitar, so gain is dropped from 4 to 3 and treble pulled back slightly to avoid harshness. Mid stays prominent at 6 to maintain note definition on the low strings in Drop C.

PRO TIPTune to Drop C (C G C F A D) and use the neck pickup exclusively. Let the notes ring and overlap — the reverb tail is part of the composition. Pick closer to the neck for a rounder attack that suits the melancholic mood.

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