DIY: Black Album Sound (TSE X30, EZD Metalheads, Samples etc.)

[Dave1978]

Hi,

I just managed to rebuild the characteristics of Metallica's Black Album sound and wanted to share that with you guys.

Dropbox (.wav)

Here's what I've used:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1565880/Metallica - Black Album Kickdrum Muted.wav (Bassdrum)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1565880/Metallica - Black Album Snare 3.wav (Snare)
http://www.drumagog.com/ (Drumagog)
http://www.toontrack.com/products.asp?item=84 (EzDrummer Metalheads)
http://www.studiodevil.com/products/ (Studiodevil Bass Amp)
http://www.theserinaexperiment.net/plugins/TSE_808v1.0.zip (TSE Tubescreamer)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1565880/Dunlop Crybaby.dll (Dunlop Crybaby Wah-Wah Emulation)
http://www.theserinaexperiment.net/plugins/TSE_X30v1.6.zip (TSE X30 - ENGL e530 Emulation)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1565880/Engl Powerball.dll (ENGL Powerball Emulation)
http://www.hitsquad.com/bouncer/?t=http://habib.webhost.pl/vst_keFIR.php&c=43472/smmdirectdl1/ (Kefir IR Loader - 4x12" Cab Emulation)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1565880/sad_but_true_IR.wav (Metallica IR)
http://www.voxengo.com/product/curveeq/ (Curve EQ)
http://www.spl.info/software/download/ (SPL Attacker)
No Link (REVerence - Cubase 5 Reverb)
No Link (Compressor - Cubase 5 Compressor)
No Link (Spatial Stereo Enhancer)
No Link (Cubase 5 Chorus)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1565880/Limiter - George Yohng's W1 Limiter.dll (W1 Limiter)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1565880/Metallica EQ Curves.zip (EQ Curves)

I've already wrote a short tutorial in german, but since I'm going out for party now, I won't translate it yet.
I don't even know if someone's interested in that tutorial, so I'm going to wait for your feedback first.

Happy new year everybody!:hotjump:

 

[muckypup1]

Sounds pretty awesome dude! and i'd be interested in seeing the tutorial

 

[Internity]

any chance to mp3 ?

 

[dcb]

i cant say if it passes the a/b test with the original (dont have it here),
but it seems cool.drums dont to it for me, though. tranisents are very harsh, id work on that.
also there seems to be some kind of ghostnote/stick bouncing sound in the snare sample.
are you using the samples from the guitarhero moggs?
not sure if its legal they get posted here...

anyways, its always cool to model a band sound,especially when you have the stems available,
can learn a ton from that! can only recommend to anyone here on the forum to do that,
you learn a ton about mixing and arrangement!
i did that for nickelback, paramore, deftones and many more. although you wont be able to use
these presets completely on your own songs (cause its really static with all the voxengo curve eqing),
its a good starting point for demos, then tweak that stuff from there.