No. 1181998·alternative-metal·4 blocks
Spiders
The hushed, hypnotic ballad from System of a Down's 1998 debut — a rare moment of calm built on a clean, arpeggiated Drop C figure that drifts before the heavy chorus lands. Daron Malakian fingerpicks a custom Ibanez Iceman into a Marshall run nearly clean, the dropped tuning giving the gentle arpeggio an unusually dark, resonant low end. Rick Rubin produced.
System of a DownSignal path · input → output · 6 blocksLive values · Fractal Axe-Fx
Guitar
Ibanez Iceman (custom IC series)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
neck
Strings
drop_c
Studio Comp
Brit 800
4x12 Greenback
Hall
Digital Delay
Studio Comp
← Tracking compression
Threshold
-28dB
Ratio
2.5:1
Attack
20s
Release
220s
Mix
0.5
Level
0dB
Brit 800
← Marshall (run nearly clean)
Drive
3
Bass
6
Mid
6
Treble
6
Presence
5
MV
5
Cut
5
4x12 Greenback
← Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
LowCut90Hz
HighCut8500Hz
Level
0dB
Hall
← Studio reverb
Mix
0.3
Decay
2.6s
Predelay
0.0ms
Digital Delay
← Delay
Time
420ms
Feedback
22
Mix
0.2
Engineer's note
File 118
The hushed, hypnotic ballad from System of a Down's 1998 debut — a rare moment of calm built on a clean, arpeggiated Drop C figure that drifts before the heavy chorus lands. Daron Malakian fingerpicks a custom Ibanez Iceman into a Marshall run nearly clean, the dropped tuning giving the gentle arpeggio an unusually dark, resonant low end. Rick Rubin produced.
— Daron Malakian
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