Hetfield is using 2 VH4´s in combination with MESA
I refurbished one of his touring amps in Munich and Stuttgart
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I was honored to be intorduced to Mr. Hetfield and I could spend around 30 minutes with him in the tuning room. I dropped off a hemp cone cabinet, a frontloaded V30 and a VH4 with 6550´s.
He liked the VH4 a lot. The team around the band is amazing and I must say, I never have seen such a professional team before!!!!
Hetfield was using his reference cabinet and it seems that he´s really into the old British worn out V30´s.
Later on we walked through the Diezel cabinets and records have been made with all different configuration. Later on we sat in front of the SSL console which is on tour all the time and we listened to the pro tools tracks. So many results after 30 minutes. James did not loose a minute, he just played all setups and we barely talked. It was highly efficient!
As there are uncountable supervisors and workers, it is too dangerous to change the setup completely during the tour. I left one amp as it was before and put in original pre amp tubes in the other one. I did not swap the power tubes as there was no time to burn them in and it would have changed the voicing too much.
Let´s see if the 6550´s VH4 will be used for the next record. It´s definitely not used on tour this time!
This band and team is so busy that I barely find an opportunity to work on the other 4 VH4´s which are in different places.
I guess he´s using Line 6 preamps for the clean sounds, but I am not sure. And yes he´s using MESA at the same time.
