Battery amp settings — Line 6 Spider iii

The Metallica guitar tone for “Battery”, dialed in for a Line 6 Spider iii with a Harley benton Sc1000. Studio version, Master of Puppets (1986), tracked at Sweet Silence Studios

Original rig

Jackson Custom Shop King V 'Kill Bon Jovi' with Seymour Duncan Invaders → Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ preamp → modified Marshall 100W power amp → 4x12 cab

Aggressive scooped thrash with tight low end, razor treble, and percussive attack — all downpicked

Amp settings — Line 6 Spider iii

CHANNELInsane

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	7
Mid	3
Treble	7
Reverb	0
Master	5

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Guitar

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Why these settings

The Spider III's Insane channel is your closest match to the Mark IIC+ high-gain voice. The original tone used a V-shaped EQ with deeply scooped mids around 400-800Hz — I've dropped mid to 3 to replicate this. Your SC1000's humbuckers have similar output to the Invaders, so no gain compensation needed. Keep reverb at absolute zero; this tone is bone dry.

PRO TIPHetfield's tone lives in his right hand — strict downpicking with the pick angled slightly and planted near the bridge. The percussive 'chunk' on the palm-muted sections comes from muting hard and picking through the string aggressively, not from more gain.

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