Behind The Recording of "Master Of Puppets"-Metallica
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Master of Puppets was Metallicas third studio album and last with bassist Cliff Burton. Its considered the pinnacle of the Cliff era of Metallica records that started with Kill em all and Ride the lightning.
This is the story of how it was recorded and the techniques and equipment used.
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Gibson not endorsing James has got to be one of the biggest blunders of all time!
Not really, since Metallica is not Classic Rock. Metallica is Thrash Metal, which has nothing to do with the foundation Gibson was built upon, which was Classic Rock.
You said absolutely nothing, gibson dropped the ball not endorsing james....@ShadovvV
@@dimebagvinnie644 - The problem is, it would be aesthetically wrong. Think of it this way.. It would be like putting windows on top of a bridge. Not only does it not look correct, but they're also going to get broken. Again, Metallica is not part of the foundation the bridge was built upon, namely Rock and Classic Rock. Metallica is Thrash Metal. Understand?
Your examples are understood but a brand must evolve if they want to survive @ShadovvV
@@drumtum81 - Technically speaking, the Gibson brand doesn't have to sell-out to Metallica or Thrash metal. Because they don't need that musical genre to survive. Classic Rock will also survive with or without Metallica, since Rock is not dead. Proof is, it has survived longer than any genre of music so far, other than traditional Classical, Jazz and Blues, the latter of which Rock is based on. So it will survive, with or without Metallica.. and so will the Gibson brand, as well as Fender - I should add.
Today I learned the Damage Inc. intro was Cliff playing bass…
Yeah I found out a more than a decade after hearing the song. Then I had to mention it too friends growing up 😅.
I started playing guitar in 2000 and had known the song since about 97' or so. I was taking guitar lessons for a little bit at first, and upon asking my teacher about this intro, he told me that Cliff did it on bass. I remember being surprised to learn that.
I just had a nice chuckle when I realized that when you're listening to songs like damage inc and disposable heroes, the guy in the recording was wearing a shirt with a giant smiling pink bubble on it called mr. bubbles.
😅 that is pretty funny!
James in the "Mr. Bubble" T-Shirt looks like the quintessential metalhead of the era.
Spam shirts were way cooler. Hell, even Kool-Aid was cool. Mr. Bubble though? No, that was for more for the gay crowd.
How do you sleep soundly at night knowing that you put out great stuff daily, bless you
Thank you!
I guess. Its just info pulled from everywhere else. The bit about Cliff not wearing headphones came straight from the video of the band talking with Flemming reflecting on recording master of puppets.
Fun fact: Saying enjoy your day is less intimidating than saying "enjoy your next 24hrs".
Especially because it's impossible that you say that to anyone at midnight, you should instead calculate quickly how many more hours are left until the time they fall asleep.
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Enjoy your last 24 hours on earth.
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Thank you! That’s a really kind analogy, I like it! 😃
changing my comment to say i love these videos thank you for making them
Cheers and goodnight!
Dude he was like 26 and already one of the best musicians on earth
He was actually 22 when they recorded this. It's unreal
Masterpiece of Puppets
100%
So cool to hear the history of one of my favorite bands.... cheers!
Cheers!
I love these! Thanks for making them!
Thank you!
I would have loved to see Lars laying down the drum parts for this album.
Another killer video 🤙
Thank you!
Nice mini doc!
Thank you!
weren't video cameras around back then? studio footage would be epic..
They weren't widely used and didn't work well in low light environments, that would change a few years down the line. FYI
Yep. I would have loved to have seen studio footage for the recording of the first four albums.
Well done -- cheers
Thank you! 😃
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Love your videos man! Do you reckon you could create one about AC/DC’s Let There Be Rock? Definitely one of their less spoken albums, studio tech wise, keep it up!!
Thank you! I’ll definitely look into it, thanks for the suggestion!
Very good
It’s a myth that all the guitars were recorded through a IIC+ slaved into Marshall’s is just that… a myth they only slaved the IIC+ into Marshall’s for a couple of leads all of the rhythm guitars are Mark IIC+/++
Thanks for the info, I though that seemed a bit sus as it wasn’t like that for ..and justice..
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You have some things wrong. For example the Mesas were not slaved into the Marshalls. This myth should die already
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One of the heaviest boy bands of all time.
There are NO human drums on Def Leopard Pyromania. Thats all samples played on a keyboard.
The Ludwig Black beauty was sampled for the recording.
There was a drum machone on "Pyromania". Only cymbals were recorded live.
The drums were sampled. The main snare drum they sampled was the Ludwig black beauty.
a suggestion!: spiderland by slint would be a really interesting one
It was a great album sure was a long road to record.. today’s recording so much more simple
Sound wise, they didn't quite capture the depth and muscle of the Ride The Lightning production which was a shame. Otherwise, this was the record they could never top. We can all presuppose Cliff had something to do with that. Great vid.
Thank you!
I politely disagree. I thought they captured the real sound of the band with Master. They just sound tight and professional. As we've seen on future recordings, they missed the mark a few times in their career production (and of course song wise). Ride has a weird sound in my opinion.
@@beeemm2578 My personal fav, in terms of guitar sound and overall vibe was The Garage Days Revisited ep. The rawness and upfront attack of the mix captured something most metal bands could only dream of. Metallica's guitar tones seem to modulate every record until Bob Rock took over production. If you look up past interviews with Hetfield, he's mentioned Ride, up until The Black Album, was his pick for the best production sound. I can understand why. MOP definitely had a sound but Ride had better guitar tones.
I've always felt that Ride the Lightning has too much reverb. Maybe that's what you mean by depth?
@@protocolmystics2818 I think it had just enough reverb but since Hetfield was always changing amp configurations back then, who knows. It was still early in their career. Sonically, it doesn't take much to alter a guitar sound in a studio setting. You're always looking for that sweet spot and it could fool you sometimes.
Pretty sure the drums on Pyromania are programmed but still a neat fact if Lars borrowed Leppard’s sonar.
They were indeed ,and the main drum they sampled was the Ludwig Black Beauty.
wasn't there a bit of reverb on the vocals?
Definitely some reverb going on everywhere but probably a lot less than most rock records at the time.
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whats this about no reverb? album sounds like its underwater
thats a bit silly
@@chris.chaney i've always thought of this as a really verby album. was pretty surprised to hear this. if the video is saying the mixer used echo because reverb was off limits, well he just changed the settings to create reverb with echo
The sound never reaches your ears directly, in a straight line from a source - it also bounces off the walls, it is repeated in the room you're in and changes its frequency spectrum. To simplify the idea, the more of those bouncing sound waves, the more complicated the sound is, and what we finally receive into our ears is called reverb. When you change its specific properties, you create a sense of depth, distance and indirectness. This is what Metallica and many bands that followed tried to avoid.
Famously, guys from Slayer have said that what set Reign in Blood from Hell Awaits was lack of reverb (well, this is at least debatable, but I won't skip the details here). Of course, there's some reverb on leads on MOP, but just compare the intro to Ride the Lightning (the song) and the intro to Master of Puppets (the song as well) and you'll hear the difference is huge. All this, of course, has to do with rhythm guitars, and the bass guitar as drums, leads and vocals are something completely different.
@@SHMUPS but uhh..... the mids!
It definitely has less reverb than Lightning. That album was drenched in reverb. It was a very unique sound though. Then Justice was extremely dry as far as reverb. It too was a very unique sounding album. Even though it had no bass, Lars' kick drums made up for it on a good system.
Also, sadly...Cliff was not killed instantly. Far from it from what I heard.
Metallica went on to do some great things but after Cliff it was a slow downward spiral
Soy, what? Kurt had wait for glue to dry? The glue under the spray finish? The fretboard? Don’t just post nonsense without checking. Do you think a company like Jackson will send out semi completed guitars? 🙄
Who's Kurt?
Lmao...!
Recorded too thin on the low bottom end. If they remasterd the early albums to sound like the black albumn, i would buy them all over again.
IMPOSSIBLE...Metallica & Flemming Rasmussen didn't have access to the latest & greatest studio recording equipment at the time (compared to Bob Rock)...how can Master Of Puppets sound like The Black Album if they didn't have access to top-notch team of engineers/producers nor top-tier mics and recording equipment...it's like asking someone to replicate Dr. Dre's sound in your basement
Blasphemy…. Stop listening to Metallica. The Black Album is the first album that was technically overproduced. It represents the time when main stream losers all of a sudden became Metallica fans. I was there , I heard Seek and Destroy on a bootleg mix tape before they released an album. I was trying to learn how to play it on guitar before Kill em All even came out. The early less produced albums represent a genre being created my friend…
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2031 Metallica been entertained the world 50 years bai wonder what they goner do last old man world tour?hahah
True Metallica fans know ride the lightning is still better doe
This album sounds like walled off shit. The mix is really weak and throttles all the instruments.