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Fade To Black
Metallica
Tone Snapshot
Pickup: Bridge humbuckerTone profile
Gain
Tightness
Brightness
Mid Scoop
Ambience
What makes this tone
- High Gain
- Bright Attack
Signal chain
- Guitar: Ride the Lightning-era Gibson Explorer/Flying V-family
- Pickup: Bridge humbucker
- Amp: Marshall JCM800/JMP 2203 with Ibanez TS-9 boost
- Effects: Ride the Lightning-era boosted Marshall
Tone Character
Recorded tone character
Gain character
Moderately saturated vintage-Marshall lead/rhythm gain with more openness than later Metallica.
Bass
Balanced and supportive.
Mids
Present and musical for the melodic guitar lines.
Treble
Bright and defined.
Brightness / presence
Forward enough for lead articulation.
Compression
Moderate, retaining dynamic phrasing.
Effects
Ride the Lightning-era boosted Marshall architecture; Tube Screamer is documented in Hammett's lead rig for the album. Clean/acoustic intro paths are separate.
Evidence / Sources
Tone character: singing, mid-rich, dynamic, slightly bright, sustained, melodic, warm, lightly ambient
Fade to Black is multi-textural. This seed represents the main distorted electric/lead character, not the acoustic and clean intro layers.
Effects
Ride the Lightning-era boosted Marshall architecture; Tube Screamer is documented in Hammett's lead rig for the album. Clean/acoustic intro paths are separate.
Original Gear
Guitar
Ride the Lightning-era Gibson Explorer/Flying V-family humbucker guitars
this seed targets the main distorted electric reference
Amp
Marshall JCM800/JMP 2203 with Ibanez TS-9 boost into Marshall 1960B cabinets
Channel
High-gain Marshall distorted/lead reference
intro clean/acoustic parts are separate
Pickup
Bridge humbucker for the distorted/lead reference
