The Four Horsemen — Guitar Tone

Amp settings (0–10)

Community-researched baseline. Your rig is different — ToneAdapt re-dials every knob for your specific guitar, amp and pickups.

Original gear

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Pickups

Bridge pickup

Tone character

tight and percussive, scooped mids, aggressive palm muting, razor-sharp treble, chunky low end, dry, in-your-face sound, minimal ambience, classic thrash rhythm, high-gain saturation, fast attack

Recording context

studio

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Sources

• Metallica Amp Settings - forum topic - Ultimate Guitar
• The story of Metallica's meteoric rise – by the people who were there
• Any idea what pedals were used on Kill Em All? : r/Metallica

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