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 · 5 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
ESP MX220 'Eet Fuk'
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ (Lead Channel)
B&B Audio Parametric EQ (effects loop)
Marshall 4x12 (speakers not session-documented)
Shure SM7 + Neumann U87 + AKG C12
Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ (Lead Channel)
preamp
Volume
7
Treble
8
Bass
3
Middle
2
Lead Drive
7
Lead Master
6
Presence
5
B&B Audio Parametric EQ (effects loop)
eq · FX loop
Low Mid Cut
-4
High Boost
3
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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