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 · 7 blocksLive values · Line 6 Helix
Guitar
Jackson Custom Shop King V 'Kill Bon Jovi'
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Volume Pedal
Noise Gate
Deluxe Comp
Cali IV Lead
4x12 Uber T75
Tilt
Volume Pedal
← Volume pedal
Pedal
100%
Noise Gate
← Studio noise gate (FRFR essential)
Threshold
-52dB
Decay
0.3s
Level
0
Deluxe Comp
← Light studio compression
Threshold
-32dB
Ratio
2:1
Knee
6dB
Attack
38s
Release
200s
Mix
40
Level
0dB
Cali IV Lead
← Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ preamp → modified Marshall power amp
Drive
7.4
Bass
5
Mid
3
Treble
7.5
Presence
6.5
ChVol
6.5
Master
10
Bias
5.5
BiasX
5
Sag
4.5
Hum
5
Ripple
5
4x12 Uber T75
← Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
LowCut80Hz
HighCut10000Hz
Level
0dB
Pan
0.5
Delay
0
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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