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Wild Eyes amp settings — Donner Arena 2000

The Parkway Drive guitar tone for “Wild Eyes”, dialed in for a Donner Arena 2000 with a Schecter C-1HTS SLS Elite Evil Twin. Studio version, Atlas (2012)

Original rig

Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier, ESP guitars with EMG pickups, likely Maxon OD808 for tightening, minimal effects except reverb on leads

Crushing modern metalcore rhythm with tight low-end, aggressive upper-mid attack, and saturated high gain

Amp settings — Donner Arena 2000

CHANNELHigh Gain amp model (Rect or Modern High Gain type)BRIGHToffBOOSToff

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

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Donner Arena 2000 internal Tube Screamer/OD block

Use as a clean boost to tighten low-end before the high-gain amp model — essential for modern metal chunk

Drive 1 · Tone 6 · Level 7

02Donner Arena 2000 internal Noise Gate

Tight gate for palm-muted chug clarity

Threshold 5 · Decay 3

Why these settings

Your Schecter's Fishman Fluence Modern pickups are hotter and more compressed than vintage EMGs, so gain is set at 7 rather than 8-9. The Arena 2000's Rectifier-style model will approximate the Mesa sag and grind. Mid at 6 compensates for the Fluence's tighter low-mid response compared to the original EMG 81's midrange bark.

PRO TIPFor the palm-muted chugs, anchor your picking hand firmly on the bridge saddles and pick aggressively close to the bridge — the attack definition on this tone comes from pick attack, not just gain. Roll off the tone knob to 7 during the solo section to approximate that filtered, slightly telephone-like quality heard on the record.

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