In this feature I’ll share some tips on how to choose the right amp and we’ll look at a handful of models, with David Gilmour’s tones in mind. Still, of all the post-Black Album records (not counting cover-song albums), Load wins for me.Finding the right guitar amplifier is essential for achieving the tones you both want and need for a specific situation and setup. On a side note, I even think that the tone from St. I have to be honest, I haven't listened to the Black Album in years, and I love a lot of other metal, death metal and thrash metal artists (and their guitar/drums/bass tones) specially eveything Andy Sneap did in the 2000's, but, when I go back and listen to any of the songs in the Black Album I'm like "holy crap, these guys nailed it!", I wish I could get that guitar sound!! don't mess with the "Metallica" standards in terms of tone. If they wanted to do the whole "careless" approach, do cover songs (like Garage Days) or something like that. Why.OH WHY, didn't they just make the new album JUST THE WAY THEY DID THE BLACK ALBUM?!!! I mean, they have the money, the time, everything! Death Magnetic sounds like a demo tape! I get the fact that they're "original" and they "do what they wanna do", but sounding like shit isn't that great no matter what direction you take on your music. The original one is unlistenable, and well, even the Guitar Hero version, which eliminates some of the harshness, makes you hear how bad the tone actually was to start. That's why I only have the Guitar Hero version of the album on my iPod in the car. Just listen to the first fast opening riff of "That was just your life" (after the slow cleans and the slow distorted intro). It sounds terrible, I mean, not only the over-compression, but, listen to every single fast palm-muted riff, there's so little gain and for some reason I even think the strings are touching the pickups - it sounds ice-picky every time they play a fast riff. In terms of tone, yes, I was aware of the over-compression to sound louder when the songs came on the radio and all that crap. Honestly, and this is my opinion, I still prefer the songs from Load (if we're talking about all post-Black Album records). They wanted to bring back some of the older Metallica, show that they're still aggressive, etc. The album, in terms of the actual music, is a LOT better than St. (if you've got slash's tone or paul stanleys tone YOU'RE VERY CLOSE, they all have parrallel wired humbuckers) THIS IS A SECRET don't tell anyone, if anybody asks you, they use Mesa's OK)ĭeep switch IN, Presence 7, treble 6.3, mids 0, bass 4.3, tone switch OUT, VOL 2, Lead 1, gain 4. The amp DSL 100! (if you look at the DVD 'some kinda monster' Extras, you'll see the DSL 100 inuse in the background. (I had wondered what he had done cause the 70's lespaul custom with standard pickups had roughly the same sound as those EMG guitars).Īll you need is a Les Paul custom, standard PAF humbuckers wired in parrallel, guitar vol full, tone on '0' (unless your playing kirks tone and you'll want the tone on '10' (possible standard series wiring for kirk)). WELL guess what? the humbuckers are wired in 'parrallel'. James use to go round telling everybody his pickups were slightly different from usual, he'd say "installed backwards or something". I know you've all been waiting for this SO here it is the Death Magnetic, james Hetfield tone.
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