No. 0671988·thrash-metal·4 blocks
One
'One' moves from a clean, mournful arpeggiated intro to the machine-gun thrash outro — and the tone is the famously dry ...And Justice for All guitar sound. James Hetfield tracked rhythm on an ESP MX220 with EMG 81/60 pickups through a Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ borrowed from Kirk Hammett, with a parametric EQ in the loop and the parts triple-tracked. Kirk's lead and the war-machine solo ride a wah over the same Mark IIC+. No reverb, no delay — the dryness is the sound.
...And Justice for AllSignal path · input → output · 4 blocksLive values · Kemper Profiler
Guitar
ESP MX220 'Eet Fuk'
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Noise Gate
Search Rig Exchange for 'Mesa Mark IIC+'
Studio EQ
Noise Gate
← Studio noise gate (FRFR essential)
Threshold
5dB
Volume
0
Search Rig Exchange for 'Mesa Mark IIC+'
← Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+
Gain
7
Bass
2.5
Middle
2.5
Treble
8
Presence
6
Studio EQ
← B&B parametric EQ (amp loop)
LowCut80Hz
HighCut9500Hz
Mid
-3
MidFreq
600
Engineer's note
File 067
'One' moves from a clean, mournful arpeggiated intro to the machine-gun thrash outro — and the tone is the famously dry ...And Justice for All guitar sound. James Hetfield tracked rhythm on an ESP MX220 with EMG 81/60 pickups through a Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ borrowed from Kirk Hammett, with a parametric EQ in the loop and the parts triple-tracked. Kirk's lead and the war-machine solo ride a wah over the same Mark IIC+. No reverb, no delay — the dryness is the sound.
— James Hetfield
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