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Fade to black amp settings — Orange Crush 20

The Metallica guitar tone for “Fade to black”, dialed in for a Orange Crush 20 with a Yamaha 112j Bl. Studio version, Ride the Lightning (1984) - Outro heavy rhythm & main heavy riffs

Original rig

Modified Marshall JCM800 / 1959 Super Lead boosted with Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer, Gibson Flying V with Gibson humbuckers

Aggressive mid-scooped British crunch with tight low-end and bite

Amp settings — Orange Crush 20

CHANNELCleanBOOSToff

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	2
Bass	7
Mid	4
Treble	7
Master	6

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01Boss DS-1W

Gain source (Standard mode). Run in front of amp clean channel.

Tone 4 · Level 7 · Dist 8

Why these settings

The Boss DS-1W acts as the primary gain source to recreate the aggressive 1984 Marshall crunch into the Clean channel with amp gain dialed low to prevent muddy double-gain stacking. The Orange Crush 20 naturally has thick low-mids, so the mid control is pulled back to 4 with treble pushed to 7 to achieve the scooped Metallica thrash bite. Clean intro/verse: step on the DS-1W to bypass it and switch to the neck single coil.

PRO TIPHit all power chords with aggressive, uniform downstrokes close to the bridge saddles and keep palm mutes tight against the bridge to give the low-end crunch its signature percussive snap.

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