Accidentally nailed the Metallica clean tone from "One".

[Ytsejammer777]

So, over lunch as I was at our practice space hooking some things up to verify some additional pieces of gear (i.e. EP Booster in the loop). I didn't have my guitars with me, so I picked up an old Ibanez V with Bill Lawrence pickups in it to test. I turned on the clean channel and immediate thought "That sounds like the clean tone from Metallica's "One"". So, I played the intro and it sounded dead on, like the recording to my ears. It was strange...wasn't expecting that at all...

 

[firmani99]

What were your settings?

 

[Bluestoned1]

Settings?

 

[LesPaul70]

That's pretty interesting considering that the clean amp you hear on the album track is not a Boogie (it's a JC, probably). 8)

 

[Ytsejammer777]

I'll post my settings when I go back on Tuesday. That is of course if I can duplicate it again

 

[caphead]

Yeah, it was pretty exclusively a Jazz Chorus that would be used to record clean parts on Metallica albums, all the way up to the Load albums. See here for an example: http://youtu.be/1qPQYt8i45Y It's not played very well but the point gets across as a demonstration of the sound in it's proper context.