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Fade to black amp settings — Fender Mustang LT25

The Metallica guitar tone for “Fade to black”, dialed in for a Fender Mustang LT25 with a Schecter Omen 6. Iconic acoustic/clean intro into melodic intro solo and heavy rhythm, Ride the Lightning (1984)

Original rig

Modified Marshall JCM800 2203, Ibanez TS9 / ProCo Rat boost, Gibson Flying V / Fernandes Strat clone with humbuckers

Saturated, biting mid-scooped early thrash crunch with singing lead sustain

Amp settings — Fender Mustang LT25

CHANNELMetal 2000 (or Rock 80s / British 80s model)BOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	7
Mid	4
Treble	7
Reverb	3
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPneck TONE9 VOLUME10

Why these settings

The Fender Mustang LT25 relies on its onboard high-gain modeling, so select the 'Metal 2000' or 'British 80s' preset to emulate the saturated hot-rodded Marshall response. The Schecter Diamond Plus humbuckers supply plenty of output, allowing moderate gain settings to reach full thrash saturation without muddying up. Mustang LT25 lacks a physical presence knob, so top-end bite is shaped directly via the treble control at 7.

PRO TIPFor Kirk Hammett's iconic intro solo, use the neck pickup with tone dialed back slightly to 8-9 for warm, singing sustain, then switch hard to the bridge pickup with wide-open tone for the chugging rhythm sections.

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