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Suite-pee amp settings — Marshall Mg15

The System of a down guitar tone for “Suite-pee”, dialed in for a Marshall Mg15 with a Jackson JS22 Dinky. Studio version, System of a Down (1998)

Original rig

Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier (Modern mode) + Ibanez Iceman with EMG 81 bridge pickup + Mesa 4x12 cab

Scooped, tight modern metal rhythm with aggressive palm-mute chug and explosive chord hits

Amp settings — Marshall Mg15

CHANNELOverdrive

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	8
Bass	6
Mid	3
Treble	7
Reverb	0
Master	4

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Guitar

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Why these settings

Mesa Dual Rectifiers are scooped modern beasts; the Marshall MG15 Overdrive channel is mid-forward British-voiced, so mids are cut to 3 to compensate and bass pushed to 6 for low-end chunk. Your Jackson's passive humbuckers output less than Malakian's EMG 81s, so gain stays at 8 to match the saturation without mushiness. The DS-1 is bypassed — the MG15's preamp overdrive delivers the necessary gain and the recording has no pedal in the chain.

PRO TIPDig hard into the strings with aggressive downstrokes on the palm-muted 6th-string chugs — Malakian's attack is ferocious and the picking dynamics drive the tone's tightness more than the gain knob does.

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