No. 0681986·thrash-metal·4 blocks
Battery
Battery opens with roughly a dozen layered nylon-string acoustic guitars — all played by James Hetfield — building a medieval-consort crescendo before the thrash riff detonates. The electric tone is pure Master of Puppets: a Jackson Custom Shop King V 'Kill Bon Jovi' loaded with Seymour Duncan Invaders into a Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ used as a preamp, slaved to a modified 100-watt Marshall power section and a 4x12. Tracked to analogue tape at Sweet Silence Studios by Flemming Rasmussen, standard E, all downpicks.
Master of PuppetsSignal path · input → output · 6 blocksLive values · Fractal Axe-Fx
Guitar
Jackson Custom Shop King V 'Kill Bon Jovi'
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Noise Gate
Studio Comp
USA MK IIC+
4x12 Recto V30
Filter Tilt
Noise Gate
← Studio noise gate (FRFR essential)
Threshold
-52dB
Decay
0.3s
Level
0
Studio Comp
← Light studio compression
Threshold
-32dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
38s
Release
200s
Mix
0.4
Level
0dB
USA MK IIC+
← Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ → Marshall power amp
Drive
7.5
Bass
3
Mid
3
Treble
7
Presence
5
MV
6
4x12 Recto V30
← Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
LowCut80Hz
HighCut10000Hz
Level
0dB
Filter Tilt
← Tilt EQ (global brightness)
Tilt
0.5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
Engineer's note
File 068
Battery opens with roughly a dozen layered nylon-string acoustic guitars — all played by James Hetfield — building a medieval-consort crescendo before the thrash riff detonates. The electric tone is pure Master of Puppets: a Jackson Custom Shop King V 'Kill Bon Jovi' loaded with Seymour Duncan Invaders into a Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ used as a preamp, slaved to a modified 100-watt Marshall power section and a 4x12. Tracked to analogue tape at Sweet Silence Studios by Flemming Rasmussen, standard E, all downpicks.
— James Hetfield
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