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 · 5 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Ibanez Iceman (custom IC series)
Pickups
HH
Tuning
neck
Strings
drop_c
Marshall (run nearly clean)
Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
Studio reverb/delay
Shure SM57
Marshall (run nearly clean)
preamp
Gain
3
Bass
6
Mid
6
Treble
6
Presence
5
Master
6
Studio reverb/delay
reverb · FX loop
Reverb
28
Delay
16
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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