Metallica to perform all week long on Craig Ferguson

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Yeah, the VH4 Diezel is what made his tone suck... they are thin and fizzy...????????????? Really? You want to stick with that?
 
RG955TT":2pggjs50 said:
Yeah, the VH4 Diezel is what made his tone suck... they are thin and fizzy...????????????? Really? You want to stick with that?
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I don't think the VH4's are thin and fizzy sounding overall but IMO when James started blending them with his Mesa Triaxis setup it was a downgrade tonally. Now they have went to the Axe-FX II's and personally I'm not a fan at all. Even though they can mimic their tones with the Axe-Fx's to me they don't have that bloom, feed back and massive tone Metallica has always been known for.

I know they get bored with their tone over years just like most of us do and like to experiment but when it doesn't work why not go back to what does. Hetfields tone use to be amazing. Now not so much.
 
RG955TT":39kst1fq said:
Yeah, the VH4 Diezel is what made his tone suck... they are thin and fizzy...????????????? Really? You want to stick with that?
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I'm blaming the Het Set and the Triaxis bullshit yeah it can be awesome when dialed in properly but I think what's going on is that when they play a song from a particular album they have tones (atleast hetfield does) in their guitar rigs or soundboard to sound like that particular "era" of Metallica and sometimes that isn't pulled off very well all the time i really personally think they sounded best when dual rectifiers were in Hets rig the 81 and a good 2 channel is sex
 
Just watched the clip. The vocals were strong....the drums....strong....
the guitars sounded just...meh. :aww: And I am a HUGE Metallica fan. I still dont knock or bad mouth them.
These guys kicked so much serious ass thru the years.....they are still ahead of the pack. :rock:

(Well at least to me) :yes:
 
Yeah I liked the drum sound, vocals are good considering how old they are. Had good energy. Guitar sound a bit disappointing considering all of the years they've been playing, you'd expect it to be better not worse.

Can't complain overall because it's just nice to see them on TV like this.
 
Mailman1971":2a64yeej said:
Just watched the clip. The vocals were strong....the drums....strong....
the guitars sounded just...meh. :aww: And I am a HUGE Metallica fan. I still dont knock or bad mouth them.
These guys kicked so much serious ass thru the years.....they are still ahead of the pack. :rock:

(Well at least to me) :yes:
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I agree with all points !

Where it might be easier to lug a modeling rig around, what they lose is that sig sound they had been getting. Same happened with Megadeth imo.

Now they sound like many other sound demos on axefx forums.
 
I just finally got to watch all the videos... My overall opinion, they would be best to stick to the Load/Reload era music when writing new material. The diehard tallica fans might not like those two albums, I personally enjoyed them and think that is what they do the best at this point. I can only count on 1 hand how many times I have listened to any album POST Re Load... They all sounded forced and lame. Just my .02
 
Dear Lars' drum tech,
Please for the love of Pete, fix that tin can snare sound. Please make note of other rock drummers snare sounds and modify accordingly (Gavin Harrison, Neil Peart, John Bonham, even Mike Portnoy) or simply listen to the Black Album and get that sound. While not as trash can sounding as St. Anger - I can't listen to 30 seconds of that snare pinging.

Regards,
Nostalgic
 
Every opinion is what it is but I wouldn't consider death magnetic weak. Some very good and strong ideas and songs in there, thrash guitar themes, finally an istrumental (and a pretty good one for me, groove and all) and ok, these guys push 50 and are filthy rich so they won't sound or feel like master of puppets anymore where they had to prove something to themselves and to the world, forgot to take a bath and drunk all day and all night. Compression wars is another thing of course. At least it does sound good in the car...

St anger was what it was for the time, not really and album. Personally I was just happy that it came it as an aggressive record with some cool stuff (unnamed feeling etc) instead of a brit pop wannabe. Also garage inc was very commendable as well for what they did. As far as load and reload, for me they are pinnacles in production, the tonality suits them, fine but some songs were heavy some songs were cool and some was shit, worse than fillers and only gotten out due to their then inability to filter out all the material. I mean, slither? Ronnie? Bad seed? Some people like them and they are not bad songs but put them out in a more chill album under another name and it's fine. Anyway I don't really think load/reload is what they should be doing, again. This band should be called metallaksis (greek for mutation) instead of metallica, you really don't know what to expect.


Love what they did with the ronnie dio and iron maiden tribute songs, I'd really like that style to spawn out some songs. Hetfield was also really affected by the machine head co-tour as far as song writing goes maybe they'll have some intricate stuff from then written down. New album is for this year.
 
BrentSSL":1do7rh5m said:
oh and in regards to Metallica their tone on kill'em all and ride the lightning is terrible and any time they are not using something that says Mesa on it thier tone does not sound good
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KEA isn't my favorite Metallica guitar sound but I think RTL has a great Marshall tone. I love the guitars on RTL.
 
Agreed that their best tones were long before his sig pickups and VH4. Hit the lights sounded really weak tone wise but fuel was closer. Their live sound up until load/reload was perfect for them dunno why they're fucking around lol.
 
'63-Strat":nxd1bm1y said:
Agreed that their best tones were long before his sig pickups and VH4. Hit the lights sounded really weak tone wise but fuel was closer. Their live sound up until load/reload was perfect for them dunno why they're fucking around lol.
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To avoid getting bored I guess.. they've been doing the same thing for quite a few years ago.
 
tech21man":3nh8dssn said:
The 30th anniversary despite the truck of amps on stage was done with the regular-then analog rigs with the vh4-triaxis combo by the way. Hammett had the recto/randall MTS hammett rig before the fortin stuff.
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yuuuuup although the Fortin amp was at the show too.

 

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Not specifically sure. He does have a bunch of 92 and 94s though.
 
ok so what did Hetfield actually use at the Country Music Awards when he did that outlaws song which was really bad ass and I'm pissed I didn't watch it on live television btw
 
That was probably one of his old 2 channel Triple Rectos. Shortly after/around that time, he started bringing out the VH4 for the one-off shows too. He and Kirk used to only use the Rectos backstage or one-off deals. When they did the grammy's and played a couple sabbath songs, james had the vh4/recto and kirk had the rm100/recto. Both old 2 channels.
 
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