I remember listening to Death Magnetic over and over again after it dropped, hanging on for those moments I could hear Rob’s work in that bizarre mix. Beautiful player.
The Justice tone sucks ass, at least for what Metallica needed. Just hear the gigantic tone difference between MoP, BA and then Justice, is abyssmal. For all the other albums they spend a good amount of time putting together every instrument, including the bass, very famously the solo for Orion took about 15 days in the making, according to Kirk Hammett who was in chargue of finishing that solo, went to NY for 15 days and when came back to sweden Cliff was finishing it (Yeah, originally that bass solo was meant to be guitar); In comparisson it took Jason and the sound engenier 3 days to record the bass for all the Justice songs, no wonder it sucked. What the band had to do was re record the bass with a much proper tone, not necessarly lower it but they where on a rush, so actually, what they really had to do was telling Jason from the get go "Hey, clean that up" and be there in the studio with him, something they learned for upcoming album, but this thing of "The bass tone was amazing and Lars srewed it up" its´all Bullshit, that tone was not meant to be for Metallica and it baffles me how people just pass through it.
@PSvGi Well no, Rasmussen produced both Puppets and Justice, and even though Jason's bass is inaudible on Justice, if you hear the isolated tracks his tone is still great. It wasn't the producer, Jason just had a thicker, gritty, tight bass tone.
@PSvGi Nah, Cliff was a very good bass player but clearly never put any real thought into his sound besides having some distortion most of the time and a lot of distortion some of the time. Kill Em All was recorded with old flatwounds which is not an ideal metal sound and when he did use rounds it doesn't sound like he changed them very often. With how huge the guitar sound in Metallica is, you need a very aggressive tone with a lot of high mids in order to be audible, which requires new strings all the time and more effort being put into tone sculpting. Had Cliff lived longer, I'm sure he would've eventually figured this out and ended up with a tone closer to what Rob uses (when they bother to make him audible in a mix)
@Sheehy His live tone was awesome, room filling and punchy. There's a few recordings where you can hear how solid his tone was and how his overall groove/rhythm literally kept everything together. On the albums is where it fell apart. It sounds like the engineer prioritized the guitars and drums first and the bass last. You can hear him, but he should be just as dominant as the guitars. If UA-cam remixers can figure it out then the engineer should have too.
Cliff played fantastic solos and was also a great composer but Jason's playing was tighter and his bass sound was phenomenal at best. I have also always preferred the sound of a pick over fingers.
honestly. i always found cliff’s bass tone to be terrible at times. his solo and clean tone are awesome, but the main bass tone is just bad. too much mids and sounds muddy at times. wish there was a better mixer back in the 80s to fix their eq. cliff was an incredible player, but when it came to tones, meh
It is interesting to compare Jason to Rob and Cliff, since Jason used a pick, whereas they did not. It gives Jason's playing that extra pick attack, but fingers I guess is a smoother tone. So I guess whether you prefer pick tone or fingers tone will play a part in which one you prefer.
Rob definitely the smoothest of the lot (as well as the most precise). Cliff was not only kind of groovy, but had a sloppier style as well. It had a rawness that neither Jason nor Rob play with -- I always associated it with the fact that he was the punk fan in the group so was a bit looser than the more technical metal guys (i.e., Het & Lars)
@@Dankster-yo8xv Well with the much more advanced mixing options with plugins, infinite tracks and such you have to day compared to what they had in the early 80's i would say that is why Cliff sounds more sloppy.
Cliff was never given a long run, I think he was probably the “best” for Metallica, but damn did Jason go hard. They couldn’t have asked for someone with more passion and energy. Robs playing is crazy, crazy stamina in that guy. I dont notice his tone that much on the records.
The best bass tone for metallica is Jason's and Justice for all. That was sick! It is a shame that they mixed the album in a way that no one can hear the bass.
On some parts of the album you can hear it. It’s just quiet and you need a decent pair of earbuds or headphones and. The song you can hear it the most is and justice for all
Jason's tones on black album and load are perfect. Its impossible to judge a bass tone just by hearing it isolated, because its made to fit the other instruments.
Honestly, and this is coming from a huge Cliff fan, the bass in "Blackened" is some of the dirtiest, dopest shit. Such a travesty he was diminished so egregiously.
Rob really has a very clean and accurate sound. It's tight and it's heavy and deep. I love that it sounds so much better like it did with Cliff. Rob really does sound amazing. Probably why I love Death Magnetic, and Harwired. Can't wait for the new stuff.
Im a bassist, been playing for 25yrs....a lot of hard rock and metal. Tone is definitely NOT in the finger tips as many bassists DO NOT use their fingers. 1st thing to understand about METAL bass and a lot of bass tracks in general is ---- there are several tracks (usually 3) being recorded simultaneously to achieve tones. One clean bass track with a "main tone" (lacking lowend), one bass track for the sub frequencies , and one track with some version of overdrive or distortion for separation in the mix. This is so the bass can be balanced properly within the mix. No processing is going to be identical, so I cant say exact gear they use. However, being a new bassist, if you're just jamming at home here is a list of gear to get you good metal tones, cheap. Spector Performer 4 or 5 string.....Ampeg Compressor.... DarkGlass B7K Ultra (B1K for lower budgets)...... AMPEG Micro CL..... Slap jut a little bit of distortion on your pedal, blend your bass and pedal 50% , no IR.... mids are your friend.....keep bass and treble around 50%.... you've got a decent starting point
An educated bassist knows when to double the guitar and when not to. Cliff Burton is always playing his own unique parts and only doubles when it's needed. Very high IQ bass work.
@@SamPlaysBass504 I actually quite like St. Anger, especially the track All Within My Hands it's a pretty good nu-metal/groove metal album, not a masterpiece, it has a few fillers and the mixing sucks my favorites are AJFA (the And Justice for Jason version) and Master Of Puppets
@@arbuznazarov9326 It's actually kinda cool to see someone sticking up for st anger. Don't see it very often lol. Good for you for sticking to your opinion.
@@bluszar6090 haven't heard lulu (and hardwired to that matter) and I don't consider it an album, or at least I don't consider it a mainline Metallica album
Cliff doesn't double the regular guitars compared to Jason. Don't get me wrong, but Jason bass tone and contribution were awesome on And Justice, but he probably doubled the guitars, and there should have been more communication with him to fix it while they were recording at that time. They just let him do his thing and left him and decided to turn it down.
All Bassist are so fuckng good, each one has his own style, my favorite is Cliff, but I don't he is the best, Jason and Rob are a beast with the bass too
You did miss distortion parts on Death Magnetic (End of the Line) and Hardwired (Spit out the bone). Also, some notable bass tricks you've missed are Seek And Destroy wah usage and For Whom the Bell Tolls intro
Best tones are probably in Master of Puppets and definetly in the Black Album Ride The lightning is wild too, pretty much up there Justice is an interesting tone, but not what Metallica needed The rest honestly is pretty good imo, Metallica always succeds at Tones
MOP tone sounds kinda meh to me, Cliff's best tone was RTL In my opinion in AJFA the issue wasn't the tone but what's being played: Jason plays the exact same thing as James (except One) and it just makes the riffs sound muddy. He replaced the band's greatest composer and proceeded to just copy what rhytym guitar was playing. Ofc a more differentiating tone would still be better.
Hi mate.. to get Cliffs tone.. first is bass guitar itself... Rickenbackers... I'm not sure if he modified or not, I had one and it growled .. Cliff used distortion and wah pedals designed for guitars, it really shaped the sound on Anestesia... Cliff kept the high frequencies turned down to create that " muddy " sound.. Hope this was useful. Regardless, cheers mate.
@@kevincurry4304 thanks dude, that makes a lot more sense on why the tone itself is so deep with his gear used. A Rickenbacker is my dream bass, so we'll see how soon i can get it 😅 keep rockin!
Cliff's rhythm tone was more bi-amped overdrive, rather than distortion (especially in the later years). Cliff's tone is very similar to Geddy Lee in the late 70's early 80's; lots of mids, compression, and more gain. Cliff's tone is deceptively simpler than it seems, especially his live tone.
If the song was included in guitar hero (that video game that had a Metallica edition) then you can just find them online since they used all the isolated tracks for the songs featured for the game. So it is the original track recording of just the bass, rather than an isolation of the whole song. Unfortunately you can't get it that good for ones not featured on guitar hero, like the call of ktulu :(
i wont to know.. why is everyone accusing jason for folowing james guitar when cliff was doing the same thing? fight fire with fire, master of puppets and so on.. if someone could explain to me?
@@panadolf2691 that's cool, I just can't I think, at least not always. But the point of my joke is that James and Lars have voluntarily kept the bass at very low volume in the mix and they kept it very low in the remaster.
@@Mathox.lintox Remaster has more bass than the original. The thing is that Jason doubled James parts in AJFA so the bass is not that loud. Btw. I think Metallica and Slayer are this bands from the Big Four that have quiet bass in the mix. Megadeth and Anthrax had loud bass on their albums. Especially Megadeth.
@@panadolf2691 yeah clearly, Metallica has often quiet bass in albums compared to live versions. I think I prefer the sound of Megadeth, so yeah, for me loud bass in metal is the best, but I understand if some people disagree with me. But I find it too bad that great bassists like Cliff, Jason or Rob are put aside in the mix, I love their basslines. And I also find that bass sound way better on the black album, so I think that my problem is with AJFA especially
Something I've noticed with bands that have quieter bass like Metallica, is that to start with I don't really hear much bass, but if I learn to play that song on bass I can hear it fine. I think it's quiet enough to go unnoticed to start with, and you hear it as it complementing the other instruments rather than it's own thing (because even if you don't actively hear the bass it still makes it sound better), but loud enough so that you can hear it if you're paying attention to it. There is so much crazy cool stuff in cliffs playing that I never heard, but once I tried to learn it I can definitely hear it. But even if you don't hear it, I still think that cool bass adds to a song, it just kind of merges with the other parts, so you can't hear it specifically, but it still makes the part better.
All IMHO Cliff's musical brilliance was never fully given its proper justice because his tone was hot garbage if we are being honest. Some of the greatest bass tracks sound like they played on a $50 bass with bad action and a large crappy amp. Orion, at least in parts, is the exception. I think Cliff is best musical mind/writer of the 3 by a huge margin. Jason's tone and style is the purest "metal" bass tone by a mile. Very precise hard picking is the normal backbone of metal. Jason is just a stunningly great metal bass player that could play in any metal band and keep it tight. Rob is the best player of the 3. As far as technical skill on the instrument. Listen to his stuff from his entire career . . . can do anything. Slap, funk, rock, metal.
Justice and St Anger were both equally the best. Both were also ruined by Lars. I am starting to see a pattern here. I don't think Lars ever liked Jason
Which is your favourite tone?
Metric
I think DM for some reasons.
El tono de Ride The Lightning es mi favorito sinceramente
I know the ogecl and caimo have their own screens, but the glubo wins because of it's incredible frame rate.
The one not recorded with a shitty sample rate.
you can really hear how good and accurate Rob is. he is a master
I remember listening to Death Magnetic over and over again after it dropped, hanging on for those moments I could hear Rob’s work in that bizarre mix. Beautiful player.
@Mean Mr. Bean, and he's such a lovely guy too. I'll never know why people hate on him.
people hate on rob???@@YouProballyDontKnowWhoIAm
The Justice Tone is peak clank, but lars had to fuck everything up
to be fair, when has lars ever had any other interests in mind besides lars's
The living proof that people don't care about bass until its gone
The Justice tone sucks ass, at least for what Metallica needed. Just hear the gigantic tone difference between MoP, BA and then Justice, is abyssmal. For all the other albums they spend a good amount of time putting together every instrument, including the bass, very famously the solo for Orion took about 15 days in the making, according to Kirk Hammett who was in chargue of finishing that solo, went to NY for 15 days and when came back to sweden Cliff was finishing it (Yeah, originally that bass solo was meant to be guitar); In comparisson it took Jason and the sound engenier 3 days to record the bass for all the Justice songs, no wonder it sucked.
What the band had to do was re record the bass with a much proper tone, not necessarly lower it but they where on a rush, so actually, what they really had to do was telling Jason from the get go "Hey, clean that up" and be there in the studio with him, something they learned for upcoming album, but this thing of "The bass tone was amazing and Lars srewed it up" its´all Bullshit, that tone was not meant to be for Metallica and it baffles me how people just pass through it.
@@antoniocenteno1483 Mmmm okay, just calm dude
@@yeyoandrew1987 That's an option
Is it just me or did anyone else expect complete silence when the justice songs started?
The bass tone on Justice is actually pretty dope. Ahdy Khairat’s mixes on UA-cam of the Justice songs make excellent use of them.
That’s why I clicked
just u
That would've been funny
No just you.
That “My Friend of Misery” riff is one of the best bass things I’ve ever heard.
Jason can't really take full credit for it as it's basically just Anethesia's intro with a different picking pattern.
@@Fireglo I'm just now noticing that they do sound quite similar. It's almost seems MFoM is Anesthesia played backwards.
The original bass quartet version is what should've made the album.
@@Fireglo that's BS, he can totally take credit for it
@@adrianpinder9897 I think if the Burton estate decided to sue they'd probably win.
I actually love how the Justice tone sounds, but I’m weird and also love that guitar tone on the album
I feel you. I actually love the guitar tone and don’t care that it takes up like the entire mix. It’s so aggressive.
Yep I do too. I will always love Blackened, especially when you can hear that brutal bassline. Cramps my fingers every time.
Jason’s tone was boss. Cliff was a better player but his tone was kinda flabby. Jason’s was the perfect mix of grit and tightness.
@PSvGi Well no, Rasmussen produced both Puppets and Justice, and even though Jason's bass is inaudible on Justice, if you hear the isolated tracks his tone is still great. It wasn't the producer, Jason just had a thicker, gritty, tight bass tone.
@PSvGi Nah, Cliff was a very good bass player but clearly never put any real thought into his sound besides having some distortion most of the time and a lot of distortion some of the time. Kill Em All was recorded with old flatwounds which is not an ideal metal sound and when he did use rounds it doesn't sound like he changed them very often. With how huge the guitar sound in Metallica is, you need a very aggressive tone with a lot of high mids in order to be audible, which requires new strings all the time and more effort being put into tone sculpting. Had Cliff lived longer, I'm sure he would've eventually figured this out and ended up with a tone closer to what Rob uses (when they bother to make him audible in a mix)
Main difference ist that Newsted used a pick. You can play louder and be more precise when repeating notes.
@Sheehy His live tone was awesome, room filling and punchy. There's a few recordings where you can hear how solid his tone was and how his overall groove/rhythm literally kept everything together. On the albums is where it fell apart. It sounds like the engineer prioritized the guitars and drums first and the bass last. You can hear him, but he should be just as dominant as the guitars. If UA-cam remixers can figure it out then the engineer should have too.
Cliff played fantastic solos and was also a great composer but Jason's playing was tighter and his bass sound was phenomenal at best. I have also always preferred the sound of a pick over fingers.
Until it Sleeps fretless tone is my favorite actually
Mmm 👌🏼 I think that makes the song in my opinion 💯
king nothing bass tone is the sexiest thing ever created
i agree
Try “Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution” for sexy bass
4:27
Def killer
i really thought mans was gonna put no tone for ajfa
Thought about it lol 😂
Jason.. Cliff was a new way but Jason's tone was the best.. imo
honestly. i always found cliff’s bass tone to be terrible at times. his solo and clean tone are awesome, but the main bass tone is just bad. too much mids and sounds muddy at times. wish there was a better mixer back in the 80s to fix their eq. cliff was an incredible player, but when it came to tones, meh
What bass tone? Lmao
In the Black album Yes, Justice not
It is interesting to compare Jason to Rob and Cliff, since Jason used a pick, whereas they did not. It gives Jason's playing that extra pick attack, but fingers I guess is a smoother tone. So I guess whether you prefer pick tone or fingers tone will play a part in which one you prefer.
@@antoniocenteno1483
His tone for Justice was fucking killer, you just can't hear it on the record
Cliff got the most mids, played mainly groovy. Jason the most treble, played mainly hardcore. Rob has the most bass plays mainly smooth.
Rob definitely the smoothest of the lot (as well as the most precise). Cliff was not only kind of groovy, but had a sloppier style as well. It had a rawness that neither Jason nor Rob play with -- I always associated it with the fact that he was the punk fan in the group so was a bit looser than the more technical metal guys (i.e., Het & Lars)
@@Mattalica-ss9pj yeah his style has always worked for me. being sloppy while playing tight at the same time is always fun
pick vs fingers is a lot of the difference
@@Dankster-yo8xv Well with the much more advanced mixing options with plugins, infinite tracks and such you have to day compared to what they had in the early 80's i would say that is why Cliff sounds more sloppy.
Cliff was never given a long run, I think he was probably the “best” for Metallica, but damn did Jason go hard. They couldn’t have asked for someone with more passion and energy.
Robs playing is crazy, crazy stamina in that guy. I dont notice his tone that much on the records.
The best bass tone for metallica is Jason's and Justice for all. That was sick! It is a shame that they mixed the album in a way that no one can hear the bass.
On some parts of the album you can hear it. It’s just quiet and you need a decent pair of earbuds or headphones and. The song you can hear it the most is and justice for all
you can feel when the bass kicks in on one, it’s really quiet but you can definitely feel it
my favorite is the "garage days revisited" tone. i like not only the bass tone but the overall production on that album the best
5:34 I really like the tone on DM
Jason's tones on black album and load are perfect. Its impossible to judge a bass tone just by hearing it isolated, because its made to fit the other instruments.
Honestly, and this is coming from a huge Cliff fan, the bass in "Blackened" is some of the dirtiest, dopest shit.
Such a travesty he was diminished so egregiously.
Manunkind intro is one of the best things metallica wrote in a very long time...
i love ManUNkind
ManUNkind is so good! Many people call it the worst on the record and i didn‘t get that from the day the album was released. Its f‘ing banger
It's very Maiden
Jason made the riff to blackened
gerald
Rob really has a very clean and accurate sound. It's tight and it's heavy and deep. I love that it sounds so much better like it did with Cliff. Rob really does sound amazing. Probably why I love Death Magnetic, and Harwired. Can't wait for the new stuff.
screaming suicide bass tone is 🔥
Missed opportunity to put where the wild things are for reload, that way you’d have each Jason song
As a beginner bass learner who tries to find out tones recently I'm glad that this video is edited but the thing is how to get these tones, lol.
they say tone is all in the fingertips
@@afishcalledminnewawa Actually the channel Bassbuzz have a video for beginners about how to fix bass tone. He pointed out gear is important as well.
Im a bassist, been playing for 25yrs....a lot of hard rock and metal. Tone is definitely NOT in the finger tips as many bassists DO NOT use their fingers. 1st thing to understand about METAL bass and a lot of bass tracks in general is ---- there are several tracks (usually 3) being recorded simultaneously to achieve tones. One clean bass track with a "main tone" (lacking lowend), one bass track for the sub frequencies , and one track with some version of overdrive or distortion for separation in the mix. This is so the bass can be balanced properly within the mix. No processing is going to be identical, so I cant say exact gear they use. However, being a new bassist, if you're just jamming at home here is a list of gear to get you good metal tones, cheap. Spector Performer 4 or 5 string.....Ampeg Compressor.... DarkGlass B7K Ultra (B1K for lower budgets)...... AMPEG Micro CL..... Slap jut a little bit of distortion on your pedal, blend your bass and pedal 50% , no IR.... mids are your friend.....keep bass and treble around 50%.... you've got a decent starting point
@@thespotlights9278 Thank you 🙏🏻
Find your own tone 👍
That bassline on That Was Just Your Life was sick. Kinda reminds me of a Rage Against the Machine lick.
1:10 slept on bass lick right there.
Isn’t it mostly just following the guitar part?
@@thesmashfloydian yes but Cliff Wrote the guitar part, so really both the guitar and bass parts are his
When I heard at 2:59 Jason's bass tone and playing my instant thought was like: damn you Lars.
Suicide & Redemption is just a pure Perfection. God I love DM
Jason all the way.
I was actually surprised how much I like Jason's tone, I think the memory remains tone is really cool. Never noticed it before
Great vid dude! :)
Agreed
Cheers
Newstead has always been my favourite Metallica member - let alone bass player.
And I play guitar!!
I actually heard ajfa bass for a split second this is a miracle
Look up and Justice for Jason
Awesome
I like how St. Anger was it's own category xD
This is really interesting, great work :D
Black album...pure bass!!
Garage inc. Also had a awesome bass tone.
Isn't anyone gonna talk about the st anger bass being in the "st anger" category?
Meanwhile Ron McGovney: *Two eyed Mike Wazowski (👁_👁)*
My favorite tone is from cliff burton but i also like the heavy tone from robert
Jasons ajfa tone sounds like metal spaghetti. I cant explain it better than that
An educated bassist knows when to double the guitar and when not to. Cliff Burton is always playing his own unique parts and only doubles when it's needed. Very high IQ bass work.
The shit cliff did was way ahead of it's time. He would clearly be a virtuoso if he was still with us.
I wouldn't say way ahead of his time. Billy Sheehan was doing crazy shit like that before Kill Em' All came out.
Cliffs best tones were definitely RTL and MOP. I believe that even he hated the tone he had on KEA, but im not so sure I'd have to do more research.
To Live to Die isn't Jason. It's just some dude.
The Black Album tone, although it is my least favorite Metallica album is my favorite with Death Magnetic being the on second place
Wait, so you like St anger more than the black album?
@@SamPlaysBass504 I actually quite like St. Anger, especially the track All Within My Hands
it's a pretty good nu-metal/groove metal album, not a masterpiece, it has a few fillers and the mixing sucks
my favorites are AJFA (the And Justice for Jason version) and Master Of Puppets
So you think that lulu is better than the black album
@@arbuznazarov9326 It's actually kinda cool to see someone sticking up for st anger. Don't see it very often lol. Good for you for sticking to your opinion.
@@bluszar6090 haven't heard lulu (and hardwired to that matter) and I don't consider it an album, or at least I don't consider it a mainline Metallica album
When he gets to the And Justice for All album, it's nothing but silence.
Jason Newsted Rules
I live for that ManUNkind intro
I love that And Justice for All bass tone: Quantum vacuum
Cliff doesn't double the regular guitars compared to Jason. Don't get me wrong, but Jason bass tone and contribution were awesome on And Justice, but he probably doubled the guitars, and there should have been more communication with him to fix it while they were recording at that time. They just let him do his thing and left him and decided to turn it down.
GODDAMN St. Anger had some nasty bass tone 🤘
Most creative/innovative: Cliff
Best tone: Jason
Most technical: Rob
God, any album with cliff on it is fucking fantastic. I'm between puppets and kill em' all, but damn has a hell of a good tone
I just realized that that ManUNkind bass line feels a lot like something Flea could come up with.
Category: St. Anger. Lmao 😂
Kinda hoped the Justice were just silence when the bass was solo'd :P
Wait. Justice had bass?
All Bassist are so fuckng good, each one has his own style, my favorite is Cliff, but I don't he is the best, Jason and Rob are a beast with the bass too
I know this is sacrilege but Rob is my favourite, thought he was amazing since I heard Suicidal Tendencies for the first time in the early 90s
You did miss distortion parts on Death Magnetic (End of the Line) and Hardwired (Spit out the bone).
Also, some notable bass tricks you've missed are Seek And Destroy wah usage and For Whom the Bell Tolls intro
Really did st anger dirty bro 😔 My world has a sick solo tone and Shoot me again also has a great bass tone
Best tones are probably in Master of Puppets and definetly in the Black Album
Ride The lightning is wild too, pretty much up there
Justice is an interesting tone, but not what Metallica needed
The rest honestly is pretty good imo, Metallica always succeds at Tones
MOP tone sounds kinda meh to me, Cliff's best tone was RTL
In my opinion in AJFA the issue wasn't the tone but what's being played: Jason plays the exact same thing as James (except One) and it just makes the riffs sound muddy. He replaced the band's greatest composer and proceeded to just copy what rhytym guitar was playing. Ofc a more differentiating tone would still be better.
Super ironic that Justice has what I think is the best tone of all of these
I was fully expecting there to be nothing for AJFA not going to lie haha
I personally love the sloppy and muddy bass tone in context of the album, anybody know how to get close to it?
Hi mate.. to get Cliffs tone.. first is bass guitar itself... Rickenbackers... I'm not sure if he modified or not, I had one and it growled ..
Cliff used distortion and wah pedals designed for guitars, it really shaped the sound on Anestesia...
Cliff kept the high frequencies turned down to create that " muddy " sound..
Hope this was useful.
Regardless, cheers mate.
@@kevincurry4304 thanks dude, that makes a lot more sense on why the tone itself is so deep with his gear used. A Rickenbacker is my dream bass, so we'll see how soon i can get it 😅 keep rockin!
Cliff's rhythm tone was more bi-amped overdrive, rather than distortion (especially in the later years). Cliff's tone is very similar to Geddy Lee in the late 70's early 80's; lots of mids, compression, and more gain. Cliff's tone is deceptively simpler than it seems, especially his live tone.
Damn it dude, in Shoot Me Again's chorus there's an amazing slap bassline, why not include that one?
Jason was a stomping war machine
The tone on Frantic is so disgusting I love it!
Ride the Lightning wins for those heavy riffage feels.
jasons tone is out of this world
Who do you think was the best album producer out of F. Rasmussen, Bob Rock, Rick Rubin and Greg Fidelman
How on earth are you able to isolate the bass so well? What technique is that?
If the song was included in guitar hero (that video game that had a Metallica edition) then you can just find them online since they used all the isolated tracks for the songs featured for the game. So it is the original track recording of just the bass, rather than an isolation of the whole song. Unfortunately you can't get it that good for ones not featured on guitar hero, like the call of ktulu :(
You just have to buy a bass isolator.
@@MrOctober44 What in the world is a bass isolator
@@endilactic3510 Special cable you run the sound through, lol
@@ianspeckmaier9565 Ooh fancy!
You skipped All Justice for All…oh wait 😏
i wont to know.. why is everyone accusing jason for folowing james guitar when cliff was doing the same thing? fight fire with fire, master of puppets and so on.. if someone could explain to me?
I thought on 2:58 we would hear nothing.
why would you not include the For Whom the Bell Tolls intro riff
Ngl I thought Bob's tone kind of slapped
For me, DM and Hardwired have the best bass tone. I'm slightly biased because they're my two favourite Metallica albums.
Wait, Justice for all had bass? x)
I can pick bass in AJFA even in the original mix.
@@panadolf2691 that's cool, I just can't I think, at least not always. But the point of my joke is that James and Lars have voluntarily kept the bass at very low volume in the mix and they kept it very low in the remaster.
@@Mathox.lintox Remaster has more bass than the original. The thing is that Jason doubled James parts in AJFA so the bass is not that loud. Btw. I think Metallica and Slayer are this bands from the Big Four that have quiet bass in the mix. Megadeth and Anthrax had loud bass on their albums. Especially Megadeth.
@@panadolf2691 yeah clearly, Metallica has often quiet bass in albums compared to live versions. I think I prefer the sound of Megadeth, so yeah, for me loud bass in metal is the best, but I understand if some people disagree with me. But I find it too bad that great bassists like Cliff, Jason or Rob are put aside in the mix, I love their basslines. And I also find that bass sound way better on the black album, so I think that my problem is with AJFA especially
Something I've noticed with bands that have quieter bass like Metallica, is that to start with I don't really hear much bass, but if I learn to play that song on bass I can hear it fine. I think it's quiet enough to go unnoticed to start with, and you hear it as it complementing the other instruments rather than it's own thing (because even if you don't actively hear the bass it still makes it sound better), but loud enough so that you can hear it if you're paying attention to it. There is so much crazy cool stuff in cliffs playing that I never heard, but once I tried to learn it I can definitely hear it. But even if you don't hear it, I still think that cool bass adds to a song, it just kind of merges with the other parts, so you can't hear it specifically, but it still makes the part better.
How did you get the isolated tracks?
You can find most of them online
The to live is to die and ain’t my bitch tracks are not real.
@@bryansteele832 true...One should have been used instead.
Man, it's crazy how much better Cliff was than Newsted.
Would have been funny to have just left a silent pause for all the justice examples 😆
You didn't do the Anaesthesia isolated tone.......
i expected complete silence for the Justice songs
You should update this with apocalypticas Isolated Ktulu
All the 90's Metallica albums had great bass.
Huh. who knew that St anger actually had bass in it?
Jason forever!!!!
David Ellefson 🤪
Jason missing bass lines were really great
All IMHO
Cliff's musical brilliance was never fully given its proper justice because his tone was hot garbage if we are being honest. Some of the greatest bass tracks sound like they played on a $50 bass with bad action and a large crappy amp. Orion, at least in parts, is the exception. I think Cliff is best musical mind/writer of the 3 by a huge margin.
Jason's tone and style is the purest "metal" bass tone by a mile. Very precise hard picking is the normal backbone of metal. Jason is just a stunningly great metal bass player that could play in any metal band and keep it tight.
Rob is the best player of the 3. As far as technical skill on the instrument. Listen to his stuff from his entire career . . . can do anything. Slap, funk, rock, metal.
Imo Robs got the best tone but Cliff had the best sound and Jason had the best production
So you're telling me there's an actual bass line on ...And justice? ;)
Como consigo el tono limpio? Me refiero a la ecualizacion
I report this video. In AJFA there should be silence.
Metallica Snare drum comparison
0:45
Good god the Frantic bass tone is soooooooooooooooo heavyyyyyy.
Justice and St Anger were both equally the best. Both were also ruined by Lars. I am starting to see a pattern here. I don't think Lars ever liked Jason
St. Anger's bass (the album version) wasn't played by Jason, it was played by Bob Rock.