Chris Blackburn probably because without the drums doing the beat in the back it feels empty. without cliff it’s not exactly empty, just feels like it’s missing something, like a little extra punch or something
How empty is Metallica with Cliff Burton ?To be brutally honest since Master of Puppets their albums have all been mud . Their live shows are their only saving grace
NOW THATS WHAT I CALL TONE!! Holy fuck. Nothing, absolutely nothing Metallica does these days sounds even close to this good. Even if they have a good composition their tone never even comes close to this. Get this producer back!! Get this way of recording back!!! This is unbelievably beautiful. This tone is life itself!
I always loved the guitars here. Actually the bass guitar isn't that loud on Master Of Puppets as well as it isn't on Ride The Lightning. Metallica was always based on guitars and drums, of course the bass guitar was important in band as everywhere, but let's be real. I don't get that Cliff missing and living it in that amount. No offense though.
Sadly, but for RTL and the black album, what I did (and it sounds pretty close to me on my Line 6), is for RTL, I used his settings from MOP and instead of the mids being at around 1, I upped them to around 2.5-3.5 and kept the treble and bass the same and for the black album I used the Justice settings and upped the mids to around 3-4.5 to give it that huge beefy tone and it sounds pretty close to me. Let me know if this helps.
master of puppets was recorded with a seymour duncan passive pickups on james guitar i think they started using emgs on the following tour for the album though
Master of Puppets album was recorded with a Jackson King V fitted with Seymour Duncan passive pickups. I'm not sure which model tho, could've been Invaders.
@@ichiro319 I thought it was mesa boogie mark 2C+ into a marshall? I saw a photo years ago with the Mk2c+ ontop of the marshall...might've been in that book they released to celebrate the 30 years of puppets.
holy shit. the tone is... i cant describe it... fuckin mind blowing. Especially on the solos ! i am sellig my girlfriend to buy their equpminet. Oh wait...i dont have one. Shit :/
When the "Chorus riff (2:13)" starts with 1.25 speed, it sounds really awesome. I don't know if this is me just enjoying faster paced Metallica riffs, or what, but (opinion alert) I think it sounds cool. :D
this proves to me that something different is being played in one part of the key riff. at 2:55 there are def some different chords being played than is typical in that riff.
The EX didn't exist back in 86, unless you mean EXP? Take a look at any photo of James throughout the Puppets tour and what guitar do you see? His trusty white Gibson Explorer. The EX came after the EXP when ESP got a lawsuit for the Explorer design and I think that was about mid 90's. As far as I know James didn't use ESP's until the recording of the Justice album and that's also when he switched to EMG pickups. This is common knowledge on most Metallica gear sites.
OMG.. when I heard first solo for the first time in this video I thought it was fake... then I listened it again and again with full song.. and yes, this is real Kirk's track :)
Maybe the electric guitar and electric bas share similarities, sure, but the upright bass (aka the ORIGINAL bass) that is used for Classical and Jazz music? Yeah, that thing is NOT a guitar.
People shit on this video for not having bass but it really helped me out on learning the parts considering most of the lessons out there aren’t 100% accurate (btw I love cliff to death)
In de part around 3:28, you only hear one guitar is playing the solo right? Where's the other guitar then. Maybe a stupid question, but I'm drummer en don't realise that sort of things
You're right that they used a modded Plexi but Tube Screamer was the OD pedal and also some Boss distortion. But I think a JCM800 could do the job and they're easier to find. Though I don't like copying other guys' tone, I want to make my own sounds. And you will never get the same tone that they had in studio because studio records are always produced, unless you use exactly the same recoding equipment and methods. (They might for example double the guitars and it will sound different.)
