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 · 4 blocksLive values · Boss Katana
Guitar
Jackson Custom Shop King V 'Kill Bon Jovi'
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Noise Gate
Lead
Plate
Noise Gate
← Studio noise gate (FRFR essential)
Threshold
52dB
Release
30s
Level
0
Lead
← Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+
Gain
8
Volume
7
Bass
3
Middle
3
Treble
7
Presence
5
Master
6
Plate
← Studio plate (light)
Time
3ms
PreDelay
20ms
Tone
4
EffectLevel
8
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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