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Deer dance amp settings — Marshall mg30gfx

The System of a down guitar tone for “Deer dance”, dialed in for a Marshall mg30gfx with a Ibanez gio grgr131ex bkf. Studio version, Toxicity (2001)

Original rig

1962 Gibson SG / Ibanez Iceman into modded Marshall JMP 2203 / JCM800 100W heads and 4x12 cab

Aggressive, punchy, high-gain drop-C Marshall crunch with tight low-end and forward upper-mids

Amp settings — Marshall mg30gfx

CHANNELOD-2

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

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Guitar

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Why these settings

The MG30GFX lacks a presence control, so presence is null. OD-2 provides the cascaded, modded JMP high-gain structure Daron used on Toxicity. Keep the mids pushed at 7 to capture the sharp, cutting bark of the riff through your Infinity R humbuckers in Drop C tuning.

PRO TIPTune to Drop C (C-G-C-F-A-D) and dig into the strings hard near the bridge with a stiff pick to get Daron's percussive, aggressive staccato attack.

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