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 · 6 blocksLive values · Neural DSP Quad Cortex
Guitar
ESP MX220 'Eet Fuk'
Pickups
HH
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Noise Gate
Studio Comp
CA MkCC+
4x12 V30
Tilt EQ
Noise Gate
← Studio noise gate (FRFR essential)
Threshold
-50dB
Decay
0.3s
Level
0
Studio Comp
← Light studio compression
Threshold
-32dB
Ratio
2:1
Attack
38s
Release
200s
Mix
40
Level
0dB
CA MkCC+
← Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+
Gain
7.5
Bass
2.5
Mid
2.5
Treble
8
Presence
6
Master
6
Sag
4
4x12 V30
← Marshall 4x12
LowCut80Hz
HighCut9500Hz
Level
0dB
Tilt EQ
← B&B parametric EQ / global brightness
Tilt
4.5
CenterFreq
1000Hz
Level
0
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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