Took 3 DECADES To Get This Dream METALLICA Tone!

-Took 3 DECADES To Get This Dream METALLICA Tone!
Thanks!!!

[codymccormick]

Man my jaw dropped too when you hit that chord. There’s nothing quite like a thick chorus on a clean guitar. Absolutely gorgeous sound. Sanitarium sounds so damn good on that

[NoahParker]

Isn’t it wild how no matter how long or how much we listen to metallica & the lore behind them, we NEVER get tired of it

[HCkev]

The chorus effect always been the key to this clean tone, even with a completely different amp you can get pretty close by using a chorus pedal

[TheDrogich]

That clean sound from Roland just instantly reminds me of Metallica and Pantera clean tones ( I belive Dime also used Roland Jazz for clean tones on albums)

[roncriswell]

You're the first person I've heard that really captured the "Metallica" sound, that heavy crunch along with the distortion and clean sound and it's amazing.... It seems so hard because they are so unique with their sounds and nobody else sounds or comes close to to the Metallica boys \m/

[doocies]

My drummer had an old JC120 under his carport for a few years, always told him it was a good amp and he should put in inside. Turns out it belonged to his mom and she ended up giving it to me since she knew I would use it. cleaned it up and it sounds awesome, Total score!

[YearsApart]

That sound provokes a feeling of my younger years. Crazy how much a guitar sound can hit you different.

[bernardsoriano]

The One music video was my introduction to Metallica and it was life changing for me too. As always great video Mike and you nailed that tone! Cool Van Hager cameo also 🤙

[joelspaulding]

The JC 120 was the clean sound for SO many songs of that era and slightly prior.

Great tones, great playing!

[HannahCope]

Yess!! This sounds freakin amazing! I do love the sound of the ENGL. Hearing you play these Metallica riffs with that perfect tone makes me soo happy, love it! Congrats on 818k Subscribers!

[StuPedassol]

The jazz chorus and emg's is where its at... I have modeled a lot of cleans off of James. And that Engl is excellent!

[andrewpappas]

My local guitar store has a JC-40 and it’s definitely one of the coolest-sounding amps I’ve ever played through, the clean tone by itself (as well as with the chorus) is just beautiful and the built-in distortion sounded pretty good as well

[christophnickel]

Man, both the JC and the Engl sound absolutely awesome. Killer combination.

[teresathomley]

That is absolutely spot on. I knew they used the Roland Jazz Chorus for the cleans- I must acquire one. Great video. Thanks Mike.👍

[bunsenn]

That Roland chorus sound is so damn sublime. Just perfect for the song.

[rutger]

I have a Peavey Rockmaster preamp and what is great about that is that is has separate FX loops for the clean and distorted channel and an FX loop for the overall amp. So you could have (for instance) a chorus in the clean loop, a gate in the heavy rhythm channel and a delay for the solo channel. Or anything else you can dream up. More amps should use separate fx loops imo.

[lancehall]

Congratulations on your addition to your new optimized rig. Your tones coming through my headset are epic. Your efforts are rewarded at long last. You are like an overnight success, three decades in the making 😉. Keep Rocking

[DavidRodriguez-mpnh]

Roland Jazz Chorus is a brilliant amp. Iconic on many tunes and is a beautiful tone. Great job!

[johnnymegabyte]

I have the JC-77 80 watt version from the 80's. It's freaking loud and worked great with MultiFX pedals, so I didn't need 2 amps.

[aas]

Seeing them live this Friday for the first time, fan since the late 90s. Thanks for this!