Pic: Hetfield's current rig

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Here's a pic I took at their rehearsals the other night:

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James' rig is sick, but with that much crap running, I would think he'd have an amazing rhythm tone. His latest rhythm tones have been not so good to say the least. Why is he running all of those amps? You would think he could get the same tone out of one triaxis instead of using 4 of them. Anybody else think his rig's a bit overkill?
 
He is probably using two of them and two are for back up in case one fails. thats why hes got doubles of everything. We carry back up tubes to a gig he just carrys a back-up of everything so he can switch over without anyone knowing
 
Even if his Triaxis is modded, you would think he still woudn't need a modded Triaxis and Diezel VH-4 to get great tones. I would think if you're running a Diezel, you'd have plenty of good tones available or vice versa with the Triaxis.

I just can't believe with all that gear how crappy his live tone is. Same goes with Kirk too. I think they need to go back to using the IIC+'s. I'm sure they have enough of them. :lol:
 
i think RTLs tone was awesome, but they went the mesa for the next album to have a different sound, that was as identifiable. like you hear RTL and think marshall... they wanted different, hence the Mark 2 c+, which was a crushing tone.

anyway, i wonder if they have them, or it was happy luck that they went to record that album and they were there.

I think the new album has an agressive guitar tone, but 1 is compressed to the cd (mastering) too much which creates distortion at the end users speaker, and i dont think they mix their albums well anymore, my guess is so they seem agressive and heavy. but since bob rock decided to record them as a "garage band" on st anger it hasnt sounded right. they used to have a great mix of guitar tones, and a melody that one could sing.

now its just poor lyrics and shouting.
this i swear, THis I Swear, THIS I SWEAR (ugh)
 
In all honesty, I think James' current tone sucks.
Metallica should have sticked to their 80s early 90s tone.
This is the ultimate Hetfield rig.
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And for the record, The best Metallica tone ever was and always will be the Justice tone. It was tight as hell, and sonically it was the apex of Metallica's tone. What possessed them to stray away into the Nu Metal tone. >_<
 
justice is all my fav tone.. i like to call it the anti tone, since its so metallic and seems to be void of something (mids probably, its like the antithesis of VH's tone.. if VH had the best rock tone, Metallica on justice has the best metal tone) its almost mechanical.

seeing some interveiws with them, it doesnt seem like they like it as much in hindsight. they were mad about losing cliff, and lars and james decided to make guitars and drums crush all on that album (thankfully, if they did anything like there past 2 albums it probably wouldnt be as good)... get it.. i dont like the production after reload.. actually garage inc sounded good too...
 
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He could do much more with much less. I liken that rig to killing a spider with a flaming brick.
 
That was funny, spider with a flaming brick,, good one!! **** the mesa's sound good with out all the extra stuff, no need for it, and I agree 80's 90's tone was Metalica, not this flat, no sustain crap they play now. See what happens when you cut your hair!!! LOL
There new album to me seems to be by far the worse album yet, I for one would not go see them, They are some new moprhed metallica imposters !!!! :p
 
metalgarth said:
I think they should go back to using Marshalls. Ride the Lightning anyone?
Would you happen to know exactly what Marshalls they used on RTL? That would have to be one of my favorite Metallica tones, well that and AJFA :twisted:
 
guitarmaster said:
Marshall :lol: :lol: :lol: .........listen to these songs :

Heathen : Victims of deception (1989) - Hypnotized
MESA/BOOGIE Mark III 1986 :

http://www.heathenmetal.com/main/multimedia/vod/01%20Vicitims%20of%20Deception%20-%20Hypnotized.mp3

Heathen : Victims of deception (1989) - Mercy is no virtue
MESA/BOOGIE Mark III 1986 :

http://www.heathenmetal.com/main/multimedia/vod/09%20Vicitims%20of%20Deception%20-%20Mercy%20is%20No%20Virtue.mp3

Heathen : Victims of deception (1989) - Opiate of the masses
MESA/BOOGIE Mark III 1986 :

http://www.heathenmetal.com/main/multimedia/vod/02%20Vicitims%20of%20Deception%20-%20Opiate%20of%20the%20Masses.mp3

Heathen : Victims of deception (1989) - Prisoners Of Fate
MESA/BOOGIE Mark III 1986 :

http://www.heathenmetal.com/main/multimedia/vod/06%20Vicitims%20of%20Deception%20-%20Prisoners%20of%20Fate.mp3

Heathen : Victims of deception (1989) - Morbid Curiosity
MESA/BOOGIE Mark III 1986 :

http://www.heathenmetal.com/main/multimedia/vod/07%20Vicitims%20of%20Deception%20-%20Morbid%20Curiosity.mp3

Heathen : Victims of deception (1989) - Heathen Song
MESA/BOOGIE Mark III 1986 :

http://www.heathenmetal.com/main/multimedia/vod/03%20Vicitims%20of%20Deception%20-%20Heathen%27s%20Song.mp3

Heathen : Victims of deception (1989) - Fear of the Unknown
MESA/BOOGIE Mark III 1986 :

http://www.heathenmetal.com/main/multimedia/vod/05%20Vicitims%20of%20Deception%20-%20Fear%20of%20the%20Unknown.mp3

Heathen : Victims of deception (1989) - Guitarmony
MESA/BOOGIE Mark III 1986 :

http://www.heathenmetal.com/main/multimedia/vod/08%20Vicitims%20of%20Deception%20-%20Guitarmony.mp3

Heathen : Victims of deception (1989) - Timeless Cell Of Prophecy
MESA/BOOGIE Mark III 1986 :

http://www.heathenmetal.com/main/multimedia/vod/10%20Vicitims%20of%20Deception%20-%20Timeless%20Cell%20of%20Prophecy.mp3

Heathen : Victims of deception (1989) - Kill The King
MESA/BOOGIE Mark III 1986 :

http://www.heathenmetal.com/main/multimedia/vod/04%20Vicitims%20of%20Deception%20-%20Kill%20the%20King.mp3

:shock:

I had the oportunity to spend a weekend with a simul-class Mark III and it was total butt-crack. But those tracks, my friend, are friggin awesome!
 
guitarmaster said:
Marshall :lol: :lol: :lol: .........listen to these songs :

**** good, but I still prefer the sounds on Ride the Lightning, or Diamond-bag Darrell's Randalls for extreme metal. (Cowboys From Hell)

Marshall will always be the classic Metal sound, and Boogies will always sound killer. There's just something more appealing in the sound of a Marshall to me.

But having said that, a Triaxis preamp into a Marshall poweramp, seems to provide the best of all worlds. LD2 Green is my signature tone, which is based on the Mark IV, which is very much a hot rodded Marshall tone.
 
EleventhHour2139 said:
metalgarth said:
I think they should go back to using Marshalls. Ride the Lightning anyone?
Would you happen to know exactly what Marshalls they used on RTL? That would have to be one of my favorite Metallica tones, well that and AJFA :twisted:


From wikipedia:

For Ride the Lightning in 1984, Hetfield used an Ibanez Tube Screamer TS-9 overdrive pedal in combination with a Marshall JMP2203 amplifier, and Marshall 1960B speaker cabinets. He equalized the tone so it would have as minimal midrange frequencies as possible.

This also doesn't tell us what mods were made to the amp, if any.
 
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