Ignominious & Pale amp settings — Engl Savage 120
The Necrophagist guitar tone for “Ignominious & Pale”, dialed in for a Engl Savage 120 with a İbanez XPTB720 with EMG 707 pickups. Studio version, Epitaph (2004) — recorded at The Depth of Torment studio, Baden-Baden
ENGL E860 rackmount preamp, Vigier Marilyn with DiMarzio Tone Zone (bridge) / Air Norton (neck), noise gate, delay pedal
| Knob | Setting (0–10) |
|---|---|
| Gain | 7 |
| Bass | 5 |
| Mid | 6 |
| Treble | 7 |
| Presence | 6 |
| Reverb | 0 |
| Master | 5 |
01ISP Decimator Pro Rack G
Run in the guitar-to-amp loop (G channel). Essential for Necrophagist's dead-silent stops between technical passages. Set threshold high enough to kill noise but low enough to preserve sustain on held notes.
Your ENGL Savage 120 is the modern, more aggressive sibling of the E860 rack preamp used on the original — same ENGL voicing DNA with tighter low-end and more gain on tap. I pulled bass back from 6 to 5 because the Savage's bass response is fuller than the E860 rack unit, and your EMG 707s are hotter and more compressed than Suiçmez's passive DiMarzios, which means the low-end can get muddy fast. Gain stays at 7 — the EMGs push harder, so you get equivalent saturation without cranking further.
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