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My Own Summer (Shove It) amp settings — Donner Arena 2000

The Deftones guitar tone for “My Own Summer (Shove It)”, dialed in for a Donner Arena 2000 with a Schecter C-1HTS SLS Elite Evil Twin. Studio version, Around the Fur (1997), produced by Terry Date at Studio Litho

Original rig

ADA MP-1 tube preamp → Marshall 9200 Dual MonoBlock power amp → Marshall 1960B 4x12 (G12T-75s), ESP Custom Horizon with Seymour Duncan JB (bridge), Boss FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz for upper-octave grit

Thick, percussive low-tuned chug with mid-forward grind and dry, articulate attack — not scooped

Amp settings — Donner Arena 2000

CHANNELOD2 (high-gain channel, Marshall-style voicing)BRIGHToffBOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE8 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Donner Arena 2000 — Noise Gate (internal block)

Essential for tight drop-tuned chugs — kills string noise between hits

Threshold 4 · Decay 3

Why these settings

The Donner Arena 2000's OD2 channel approximates the Marshall power section voicing Carpenter used. Your Schecter's Fishman Fluence Modern pickups are hotter and more compressed than Carpenter's passive JBs, so gain drops from the original 7.5-8 to 7 to avoid mud. Mids stay high at 7 — this tone is NOT scooped; Terry Date kept mids present for clarity in Drop Db. Bass reduced to 5 (from original 6-7) because the Fluence's tighter low-end plus drop tuning will flub out otherwise.

PRO TIPPalm-mute directly over the bridge saddles, not further up the strings — Carpenter's percussive attack comes from a very tight mute position combined with aggressive downpicking; the tone dies if you mute too loosely or too far from the bridge.

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