How to get metallica 's tone ?

[Ized]

The key to getting the metallica tone is a highly distorted preamp and a clean poweramp section. Metallica hardly uses any power-amp distortion since they rely on mostly preamp distortion, which gets that buzzy bzzt bzzt bzzt tone.

Which means a high gain distortion pedal into a clean tube amp half stack might work. With the proper eqing and stuffs and all. Hetfield used Furnan parametric eqs to scoop his mids.

 

[edder]

saw in one of their old videos, an interview with their sound guy. The secret to their sound is a noise gate. there you go.

preamp cranked till hissy. scoop the damn mids. chug. chugga. open leg wide. chuggachuggadjengdjeng. stop. noise gate kicks in. chug. stop noise gate kicks in. percussive. abrupt. chug. chug. chugga. chug. noise gate kicks in. open legs wider.