Recreating the BLACKENED Tone!

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Spiro recreates Metallica's Blackened guitar tone with Neural DSP.
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[@holtrain81]

Cool process with the DI, ive never tried having the luxury to craft the tone after recording

[@AntonioMartinez-jz2ck]

I've always thought this tone was one of the greatest, but it never got to see it's full potential.

[@TheRetroBassist]

This was an incredibly accurate recreation of the AJFA guitar tone, raw and brutal af! 🤘🏽

[@alexmoonyay]

Very accurate IR. One of the best amp sim, love those cabs too.

[@chrisdudeword1]

Spiro is the tone doctor.

[@AntonisKoumpari]

wow spot on

[@rudycastillo6369]

justice it was esp exploxers with emgs 81 and kirk had that esp strat the kh m2 and tom anderson strats with emgs too

[@bootlegnjack]

Sommelier of the AJFA tone over here. Salute

[@truckguy3]

Such an amazing amp. So amazing that literally no one has ever used it on a heavy record ever outside of AJFA and MOP, and also was never used on its own on for rhythm tones 😂

[@joeyvpoisonfree]

Is that true?

[@truckguy3]

@@joeyvpoisonfree is what true?

[@joeyvpoisonfree]

@@truckguy3 literally no one has ever used it on a heavy record ever outside of AJFA and MOP, and also was never used on its own on for rhythm tones

[@truckguy3]

@@joeyvpoisonfree it’s 100 percent true…but don’t tell all the fanboys of this amp that. Think about it..name me ONE heavy record outside of the Metallica records ( that had Marshalls and Marshall power amps and ADA MP-1’s and all kinds of other shit in there too) that this amp was used on…..can’t think of any, can you? Because they don’t exist. And no, dream theater doesn’t count. The internet is hillarious, it has all these kids believing this is the holy grail of amplification yet it has no credibility outside of Metallica. Also, bob rock said it was a mark III on the black album multiple times, so there’s that.

[@hakkin_d]

@@truckguy3are we talking the mark series in general? Or specifically the mark II c+?

[@driftthekaliyuga7502]

That bass resonance is a huge part of the Justice sound. That woof and boom is legendary and I love it. These days everyone does everything they can to avoid it. From eq to multiband compressors. Bring the woof back. Bring the scoop back

[@lmr124]

use the ir on -0 ... :)

[@thedddemon]

Pros use real amps not crappy software

[@Lilbee730]

I'm so glad tones like this aren't really a thing anymore. But yeah, he nailed it, all the same.

[@xangrycatmanx5104]

Another thing about this album's tone is that James was slaving the Mesa into a Marshall; basically using the preamp from the Mesa, and the power amp from the Marshall. You got really close tho!!

[@spirorips]

That was Puppets actually, but thank you sir!

[@yevhenfedorets6509]

Nobody slaved anything on Puppets for rhythm, Flemming said it was only for Kirk's solos.

[@PASHKULI]

sounds harsh or "digital"

[@o.phillips2522]

I guarantee you in a blind test you wouldn't be able to pick out which one is the plugin and which one is the amp. Especially in a mix. Maybe it sounds digital because you're watching it on KZbin, genius. And as far as sounding "harsh," yeah, welcome to 80's and 90's Metallica guitar tones. Scooped and harsh.

[@jackflynn-oakley1937]

Sounds digital