Re:Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets”
by seanp2k2 on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @02:12PM
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Yeah, I still watch them to try to pick up more theory on “why” something sounds good or has a particular feel, but a lot of this stuff came because the people making it knew what they liked and picked something interesting.
Overall, I used to like Metallica as a kid but I hated what they did with the whole Napster thing enough that it inspired many years of amazing torrent community interaction that has brought me so much musical joy and good times. I also despise some of their decisions around mixing / overall sound of albums like Death Magnetic given that their own personal amazing rehearsal spaces are fully kitted out with Meyer Sound systems, which are fantastic and arguably the best in the world, yet their music sounds like that. Perhaps all those years playing have wrecked their ability to hear anything over 6khz.
That said, there’s some legend and a Guitar World interview about how Clif was the theory guy in Metallica: https://www.rocknrollinsight.com/2017/03/cliff-burtons-influ...
This discusses some timing anomalies in some Metallica music and also seemingly refutes the point that Clif was the Master of their Puppets https://metalintheory.com/metallica-and-the-case-of-the-miss...
Overall, I used to like Metallica as a kid but I hated what they did with the whole Napster thing enough that it inspired many years of amazing torrent community interaction that has brought me so much musical joy and good times. I also despise some of their decisions around mixing / overall sound of albums like Death Magnetic given that their own personal amazing rehearsal spaces are fully kitted out with Meyer Sound systems, which are fantastic and arguably the best in the world, yet their music sounds like that. Perhaps all those years playing have wrecked their ability to hear anything over 6khz.