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 · 5 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Jackson Custom Shop King V 'Kill Bon Jovi'
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ (preamp)
Modified 100W Marshall power section
Marshall 4x12 (Celestion-loaded)
Shure SM57 (close-miked)
Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ (preamp)
preamp
Volume
7
Treble
7
Bass
2
Middle
4
Lead Drive
7
Lead Master
6
Presence
5
Modified 100W Marshall power section
power_amp
Master
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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