Rosemary amp settings — NUX MG-300

The Deftones guitar tone for “Rosemary”, dialed in for a NUX MG-300 with a Gibson SG Modern. Studio version, Koi No Yokan (2012) — heavy 8-string main riff and outro

Original rig

Fractal Axe-Fx II (Marshall JCM800 / ENGL models into Orange 4x12 V30 IRs) + ESP Stef T-8 / SC-608B (Fishman Fluence / EMG 808) + Tube Screamer boost block

Massive, wall-of-sound modern low-tuned high gain with a tight bass clamp and aggressive upper-mid crunch

Amp settings — NUX MG-300

CHANNELFireman HBE (or Brit 800) + 4x12 V30 Cab IRBOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01NUX MG-300 EFX Block (TS Drive / Tube Screamer)

Tightens up the sub-lows and pushes the preamp block

Gain 1 · Tone 6 · Level 9

02NUX MG-300 Noise Gate (NG)

Essential to clamp high-gain noise and keep low-tuned riffs articulate

Threshold 6 · Decay 3

Why these settings

Stephen Carpenter tracks Rosemary on an 8-string tuned to F# standard, so the low end needs strict containment. Using the MG-300's TS Drive block with gain near zero and output boosted tightens the front end before hitting the Fireman HBE high-gain amp model. Set the SG's bridge humbucker full up to compensate for standard 6-string scale length and push strong upper-mid clarity. Clean intro/verse: bypass the TS Drive block, switch amp model to Jazz Clean with Chorus enabled.

PRO TIPPick hard with heavy downstrokes near the bridge saddles to maximize percussive attack, especially when playing dropped tunings on standard scale-length humbuckers.

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