TheMetalWarrior316 wrote:
Adveser wrote:
5/3/// wrote:
Adveser wrote:
No way. I love the way Justice sounds.
Get a better stereo or quit bitching.
Don't get me wrong, I think Justice is a good album (though the weaker of the first four) but Lars' drum sound is just horsecrap!
That was the drum sound on every album that was not a hair metal release in the late 80's.
Rush used the same mixing technique in the late 80's too which was basically to bring everything in the mix up an octave.
The production of that album was nothing more than the product of late 80's production techniques, not an attempt to insult jason newsted.
The reason people aren't aware of that is because not many Metallica fans own a lot of pop records from the period that feature very much the same sound. The difference here is Metallica's guitar tone kind of masked Jason's Bass. The band could have helped themselves a lot by doing what geddy lee did, which was to use much thinner bass strings, then it would have cut through the mix a lot more.
But why didn't they use the mid 80s production technique like on Master of Puppets or Ride the Lightning, which had a much much much much much better sound than AJFA? Even
Kill em All was better produced than the latter...
That isn't hard to figure out.
1. Label pressure
2. We weren't sure how to get low frequencies onto a CD or that we didn't know how high the threshold for distortion would be for these frequencies
3. again, most major labe albums had that particualr sound
4. Metallica was about to go more mainstream
5. In the attempt to promote CD tech, albums were given an overemphasis on treble sounds to showcase the fidelity and clarity of the media.
I think thats enough
Bottom line, the production sucks. No low end whatsoever. Main reason I can't get into that album.
