Ride The Lightning Era : James Hetfield's Equipments

Guitars:

White Gibson Explorer #1
Short description: Cream White Stock 1984 Explorer,
Inlays: Dot
Pickups: Gibson 500T in the bridge, 496R in the neck. In 1988 EMGS 81/81 Installed
Controls: 2 Volume, 1 Tone.

Amps:

Marshall 100 watt head and 4x12 cabinets

Picks:

Dunlop Green Tortex .88 mm

Effects and Other Stuffs:

Ibanez Tube Screamer- used as an overdrive/distortion pedal. - James didn't use this often, Pretty much never again after 1984.
Boss Flanger Pedal
Boss Tuner
Rocktron Compressor/Limiter/Hush - Used on the mics for reducing background noise, making vocals alive and real. Also can be used to balance out Instrument feedback and such. Only mono.
ADA 2FX Multi Effects Processo - A popularly used 80's Rack mount product. With 3 separate purposes
Flanger (4 Nobs), Chorus (2 Nobs), And a Delay of 1 second maximum (4 Nobs)
Ibanez UE400 Multi-FX - Just guitar effects
Furman PQ4 parametric EQ - Good for boosting EQ and fine tuning guitar tones.

White Gibson
Explorer #1