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Ride the Lightning amp settings — Fender Mustang LT25

The Metallica guitar tone for “Ride the Lightning”, dialed in for a Fender Mustang LT25 with a Epiphone Les Paul Studio. Main rhythm riff, Ride the Lightning (1984 studio track)

Original rig

1984 Gibson Flying V, Marshall JCM800 2203, Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer

Aggressive mid-scooped early thrash crunch with sharp high-end bite and tight low end

Amp settings — Fender Mustang LT25

CHANNEL80S ROCK amp model

Knob	Setting (0–10)
Gain	7
Bass	7
Mid	4
Treble	8
Master	5

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Guitar

PICKUPbridge TONE10 VOLUME10

Signal chain

01OVERDRIVE

Onboard stomp block placed before the amp model as a clean boost to tighten low end and add attack

Drive 0 · Tone 7 · Level 9

02SMALL ROOM

Onboard REV slot to recreate subtle studio room ambience

Decay 2 · Tone 5 · Level 2

Why these settings

The 80S ROCK model accurately captures the hot-rodded Marshall JCM800 core, while the onboard OVERDRIVE replicates the classic TS9 front-end boost with drive zeroed and level maxed. Scooping the encoder-adjusted mid control to 4 and pushing treble to 8 recreates the aggressive upper-mid bite of the album without flubbing the 8-inch speaker. Keep the guitar volume and tone on 10 to ensure maximum transient punch into the virtual front end.

PRO TIPAggressive, strictly downpicked palm-muting right against the bridge saddles is essential to get the percussive 'chug' articulation heard on the album's main riff.

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