Metallica's James Hetfield talks about touring in the 80's with EMGtv 

Thanks man

Absolutely...his rhythm is fantastic as. His a great player and singer as well. I love him. Good that he can even play the drums and his good at arranging music. Him and Lars are good at it. Smart men.

John Schaffer can touch his tone when it comes to rhythm guitar, and it's not nu style. Now take nothing away from James. James is a huge influence on Schaffer. But when it comes to pure tone I have to give Schaffer credit. Sounds like a combination of that James crunch fused with the galloping of Iron Maiden.

Paradise Lost have much better rhythm guitars but Greg Mackintosh and Aaron Aedy are very underrated guitarist.

theres lot of nice rythms from megadeth, children of bodom, pantera. you gotta get out of the little metallica bubble.

Kyle Ruthstrom what about the beginning with Kill ‘Em All, and the early demos?

Even as a huge fan, I will say that "Escape" is a terrible song but besides that

Orion overrated as shit

@@obadiah650 someone arrest this man

Contrary to what James says here EMG was not a part of any of those albums.

Nah, emgs weren’t used on the master of puppets album they only used it on the following tour

Seymour Duncan Invaders were used on Puppets, and then on the tour James switched to EMG's

Don’t forget the cab/speaker/mic...

@@SilentNightBodomNight also the player...

@@serenityk2tu749 Kirk's guitars had emgs.

Well I’m pretty he meant in a different way

Basically lol

JUST GET AN LTD VERSION, EVERY SINGLE 1 ARE GREAT EVEN DOWN TO THE CHEAPEST, MY FIRST GUITAR WHEN I STARTED WAS A LTD EC-10 AND IT WAS ONLY 99 BUCKS BUT IT PLAYS BETTER THEN ALOT OF $300 GUITARS AND IT SOUNDS GREAT, THE PICKUPS ARE PRETTY GOOD CONSIDERING THE PRICE, IF YOU WANT TO PUT IN A HET SET JUST GET A LTD 330 SERIES, THEY COME WITH AN ESP COPY OF AN EMG(I HAVE A KH330 AND OTHER LTDS WITH EMGS, THEY SOUND 100% IDENTICAL TO EMGS) AND SAVE YOURSELF A TON OF MONEY, DO NOT GET A 2016 400 SERIES LTD THOUGH, ITS BASICALLY THE SAME GUITAR AS THE 330 SERIES BUTWITH BRANDED EMGS AND NOT THE ESP COPY OF AN EMG BUT LIKE I SAID THEY SOUND IDENTICAL, YOU CAN GET 2 OR 3 330 SERIES GUITARS FOR THE PRICE OF 1 2016 400 SERIES LTD GUITAR

MB215 esp guitars are a big difference from ltd. for the money LTD is so worth it for the quality and so are ESPs but esp plays and feels better and slicker which is important

nkmcfrln i see what you did

@@fredriksvard2603 I'm actually into passive pickups and vintage gear. But I like the sound that Kirk and James and Dave get from EMG's and similar artists.

acidangelster I think puppets was too, with James’ Jackson V with a Seymour Duncan invader. As for Ride, I’m pretty sure James recorded with his Gibson explorer which had dirty fingers at the time, I’m not as sure as that as I am with master though

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it's hetfield lol and it depens , at start i think they were using passive humbuckers

With a tube amp, as it reaches it's volume limit, the sound starts to break up, and it goes into overdrive. The hotter and louder the signal coming from the guitar, the harder it hits the amp and pushes it into breaking up even more, allowing more gain and distortion. Nowadays, people often use different gain channels or pedals to clip and break up the tone, even at lower volumes, but when the amp is cranked without the need for artificial clipping (distortion pedal etc) then it comes upon a point of harmonic resonance and "softer" clipping that creates full and smooth, yet a biting and big sounding distortion that is incredibly responsive to pick attack since there is no filter clipping your tone. The only clipping your guitar gets is from "hitting the ceiling" or pushing it to that overdriven point. If an amp can retain it's clean signal without breaking up from overdrive at really high volumes, it means it has a lot of "headroom". Some guitarists deliberately use weaker amps with LESS headroom, so they can reach that breaking up and saturation point without making eardrums bleed from excessive volume. So when you pick soft, that distortion and drive backs off, but dig in and it comes right back, and notes sustain longer or shorter depending on how your pick attack changes because it isn't being compressed as much, so the tone is also more dynamic this way. So Hetfield here is trying to make his sound more dynamic and punch sounding like a passive WHILE keeping the huge fat sound and signal that hits the amp hard to send it into that overdrive/distortion point without using a different gain stage, channel, or pedal to clip his sound. In otherwords, it is just the natural amp being pushed to it's limit as opposed to simulated distortion which can limit how his pick attack effects his sound, and we ALL know how badass Hetfield's pick attack is.

wow, now that's an explanation mate!

Well said.I have EMG's in a few guitars and really like them.People think they are like a super distortion pickup and theyre not.I like guitar to head.And to get that punch those tubes have to be hot(fuck solid state).I just have an old JCM800 50wt,but it sounds great cranked up.Shit the soundmen when I played live would only let me turn it up to 3!So I had to use a tube screamer to push it.

PANICBLADE emg:s arent really hot. Clean, maybe.

Ok

Michael Clavelli emg:s in bad guitar = bad sound

that’s usually the setup. the camera is usually next to the interviewer, or if it’s behind them it’s zoomed in so they’re out of frame

Exactly! Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ = Master, Justice guitar tone Black album, the same EMG's guitar pickups + Mesa Boogie Mark IV