Spend the fortune if you want for a good metal head but you can great pretty fucking badass tone from these as well as Crate Shockwave heads which are like $300. I'm using it with V30s too so that also helps with tone and sounding like Metallica, Decapitated, Suffocation, and Death etc. I picked it up for $150 and if you have money to burn check it out. This amp is really versatile too, it can get really Marshally sounding and I have a Jcm800 original so I'm not just bullshitting. Metallica basically compressed the shit out of their sound on MOP and AJFA so it shouldn't be too surprising that you can pull those tones from a good ss head. It is one of the best ss amp I've ever played and it can get all the classic metallica, thrash and death/black metal tones. (yes Valvestate) All I can say is that this thing is fucking awesome. I recently picked up a Marshall 8100 Valvestate. There are cheaper ways to get their tones I've learned. Its the same thing as using a tube screamer to tighten up a high gain amp, because they have a big mid boost. Most amps just have the one eq section after the gain stages, Soooo with most setups you could just get an eq pedal and put it before the amp with it set to a frown (mids pushed up), and suck the mids with the eq on the amp. So Metallica would set the treble high, some mids, and no bass, to get the tone really chunky on palm mutes, then use the graphic eq to scoop out all the mids and pump up the bass. Those preamps have the bass mid and treble knobs in the circuit before 3 of the gain stages. Metallica used a Mesa MK 2 c+ preamp into a Marshall power amp w/ 6550 for Master and Justice. KILL EM ALL Gain - 8 Bass - 8.5 Mid - 1.5 Treb - 10 RIDE THE LIGHTNING Gain - 7 Bass - 6 Mid - 1 Treb - 9-10 MASTER OF PUPPETS Gain - 7 Bass - 6 Mid - 3 Treb - 7 Reverb - 1 AND JUSTICE FOR ALL CLEAN Bass - 10 Mid - 3.5 Treb - 8.5 BLACK ALBUM Gain - 9 Bass - 8 Mid - 1 Treb - 6 Reverb - 4 ENTER SANDMAN CLEAN Gain: 7 Bass: 3 Mid: 3 Treb: 8 Reverb: 2 KIRK 1 Gain - 9 Bass - 7 Mid - 2 Treb - 10 Reverb - 3 KIRK 2 Gain - 7 Bass - 7 Mid - 2 Treb - 7 Reverb - 2 JAMES 1 Gain - 7-9 Bass - 8 Mid - 3-4 Treb - 8 Reverb - 4 ENJOY AND SUBMIT!!! I personally would like a distorted tone for.And Justice for All. You can also request settings if you need them. Mesa Boogie Mark V Metallica Tone: Master Of Puppets.
GUITAR RIG 5 - 5 PRESETS FOR CLASSIC ROCK/METAL TONES. 'Guitar Rig Presets Online is all what Guitar Rig. Of the Guitar Rig 5 (4) interface and you are ready to rock. Once a setting is entered, I will add it in this first post. This is a thread dedicated to Metallica's amp settings.