Metallica - Load/Reload/Garage inc. Recording Details

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Hi,

I know Randy staub has hes own thread but what about we discuss and try to get as much info about these records?? I really think this 3 records are the best sounding recordings made, atleast in this genre.

They have what every metal/rock album should have. they are truly perfect in terms of recording/mix quality

Everything is stellar when it comes to production and i wonder what they used to get that drum sound, what microphones where used etc etc.
Hopefully someone can fill in with some really info

Cheers / Christian SWE
 
Admittedly at this point Metallica were more of a hard rock band. The drums are more mid-pace, with slower and groovier riffs, rather than outright thrash. I don't think this mix style of Randy's would work so well for the super fast stuff. It's a great template for rock mixing though, and sounds great.
 
I agree. But i am most curious about the drums especially the snare. Ok it wont work for every production, but the clarity and the punch is what im after. I dont think there are any samples involved there??

And i really dig the hard punchy center of those mixes probably SSL master bus compressor involved there. The overheads seems almost to be in mono, atleast not that hard panned and gives great room for the other elements to take space in the mix.

I just sat and listened for a while in my studio and was truly amazed over the production. It is just pure joy to sit down and listen to them :)
 
I'd be interested to know the details as well. Those are really phenomenal sounding records.
 
every work that staub made with Metallica had samples(well, not garage inc), or at least that's what Randy says on interviews.

A HUGE part of the sound, imo is lars playing, I know a lot a people constantly bash him, but he hits the snare like a motherfucker, he's got some serious rock atittude
 
I love the sound of the Load albums. The vibe is huge and simply awesome.

Wasn't Garage Inc was recorded in a very short time, like days or something? I remember seeing pics and seems like reading that at least Kirk was using the rack version of the POD 2.0 to cover the various tones. I may be way off base but it also seems like Garage Inc was pretty much live jams.
 
I totally agree that those are some of the best sounding records and some of Staub's best job (along with Nickelback and Alice In Chains)!!! I've searched a lot to find info on those albums,but unfortunately didn't manage to find much of it..

Here's all the info I've found: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKWcKmcj46A&feature=related[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atPxdhbnIlU&feature=related[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5U90tW4qjE&feature=related[/ame]

and here's a site containing all the gear metallica supposedly used for their albums: http://www.montyjay.com/metgearmain.html

If anyone has found anything more,please share it!!!
 
crosstalk said:
I love the sound of the Load albums. The vibe is huge and simply awesome.

Wasn't Garage Inc was recorded in a very short time, like days or something? I remember seeing pics and seems like reading that at least Kirk was using the rack version of the POD 2.0 to cover the various tones. I may be way off base but it also seems like Garage Inc was pretty much live jams.
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well in the garage inc cover hes using the original flextone, im sure the pod 2.0 and flextone II weren't out back in 98 when they recorded it!
 
MetalJonesy said:
well in the garage inc cover hes using the original flextone, im sure the pod 2.0 and flextone II weren't out back in 98 when they recorded it!
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lol, well I knew it was Line 6 something, completely forgot about those Flextones. Just got the booklet out and I see now, the face plate on the Flextone was red and looked alot like the pod. My bad.
 
Well for guitars i am quite sure that they used Mesa Boogie all the way. Triaxis for tone (with some amplifier) with mesa cab. The guitar tone is really original sounding and fits like a glove for that type of hard rock, and i dont think i have heard that tone except from metallica.

For clean tone i think i saw a youtube clip where they used a roland amplifier.

But lets get back to the drums :)
 
I'm watching that video and cringing, sorry! Back to the AUDIO part of things lol!
I've been hooked on watching the YEAR AND A HALF dvd... that's some fucking audio engineering I mean fuck me!
 


Quite intresting, and how they say that they needed to change drumskins after a couple of takes because lars beat the shit out of em haha
 
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OMG, moving pictures of Randy
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http://www.freewebs.com/montyjay/jamesamps.html

The guitarist's main amplifier setup was composed of a Jose Arrendondo modified Marshall, a Mesa Boogie Triaxis preamp and a Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ that he 'borrowed' from Kirk years ago. "That amp always comes through in the studio."

Also on hand were a veritable battery of amps, all of which were put to good use. "At one point I had 14 amps going at once...for a clean sound. I wanted to get a variety of clean sounds on this album instead of relying exclusively on the Roland JC-120, which has traditionally been the source of Metallica's clean sound. It was tough going though, because the Roland sounds so good that you want to keep going back to it. But we found some other cool aamps, particularly this little Matchless Spitfire that really kicks ass and an old tweed Fender Twin that's so sharp it'll take your nuts off!" Guitar World, July 1996

There's more here: http://www.freewebs.com/montyjay/metgearmain.html
 
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