Lightning to the Nations
The title track of the record Metallica spent a career paying back, and the cleanest look at Tatler's actual rig: 'I used my Flying V on every song with a Marshall 2203 model 100 watt amp into a Laney 4x12 cab.' Note what that is not -- the 2203 is a master-volume Marshall with a real preamp gain stage, which puts this in a completely different circuit family from the non-master Plexis that most 1980 metal is built on.
Lightning to the Nations
What we checked
Computed by a program, on this recipe, every time this page is built. How this works
Preset files — 1 of 3 complete
- Helix builds complete — every block in the recipe is in the file
- Quad Cortex 5 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Gate, Studio Comp, Brit 2203, 4x12 Blackback, Room Reverb. These load cleanly but are not the model named above — the file will sound wrong here until we map them. Set these blocks by hand.
- Katana 3 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Crunch, Booster, Room. These load cleanly but are not the model named above — the file will sound wrong here until we map them. Set these blocks by hand.
What we didn't check
- Nobody played this through a real amp. There is no human listening test behind any number on this page.
- The settings are reasoned from the sources below, not measured off the record.
- No audio has been rendered for this recipe yet, so you cannot hear it before you load it.
- 3 platforms on this page (TONEX, Kemper, Fractal) get a model pointer, not a preset file — nothing was built or checked for them.
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