Guitar World<\/a>, Zaemisch reflects on Metallica\u2019s transition from physical amps to digital amp modellers, as the group remain one of the top live forces in the world, still in the midst of their massive M72 World Tour.<\/p>\nAs is often the case with the adoption of new technology, there was a single event which sparked Metallica\u2019s transition to amp modellers. And that came with their one-off Freeze \u2018Em All concert in Antarctica in 2013.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were kind of forced to come up with a solution for playing a show in Antarctica where we couldn\u2019t have speakers,\u201d Zaemisch reflects.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor environmental reasons, they didn\u2019t want any noise pollution. We had a lot of help right off the bat. Matt Picone from Fractal came and got all our sounds started. It was definitely a learning curve for us and the band, but once we got through that, everybody started to look at how convenient it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Zaemisch credits James Hetfield\u2019s open-mindedness with Metallica\u2019s eventual adoption of digital amp modellers.<\/p>\n
\u201cJames wants to know all of the different ups and downs of things and, you know, he can play through whatever he wants,\u201d he continues.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that he chose to kind of say, \u2018Well, maybe we\u2019re the ones to embrace this and use it to its fullest extent,\u2019 I really had to hand it to him because we were excited to use this stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
But outside of sound, removing walls of physical amps from the stage presents new opportunities in terms of stage design, and according to Zaemisch, most fans don\u2019t really care anyway.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe people in set design realised that if we don\u2019t have this wall of speakers anymore, we have all of these other things available to us.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody\u2019s all about content these days, and not a lot of people want to watch a band stand in front of their amp line with nothing else going on. Now we can use large video screens. It opens up a lot more opportunities to do different things.<\/p>\n
View a full list of Metallica\u2019s upcoming live dates via their official website<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those of us immersed in guitar culture love to see the gear a band is using front and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[12566,88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-275153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-artist","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}