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 · 4 blocksLive values · Boss Katana
Guitar
Ibanez Iceman (custom IC series)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
neck
Strings
drop_c
Clean
Reverb
Delay
Clean
← Marshall (run nearly clean)
Gain
30
Volume
65
Bass
60
Middle
60
Treble
60
Presence
50
Master
60
Reverb
← Studio reverb
Time
26ms
PreDelay
25ms
Tone
45
EffectLevel
28
Delay
← Delay
Time
420ms
Feedback
22
EffectLevel
18
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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