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- Do you recall how many guitar tracks were used and how they were panned? The "Master Of Puppets" guitar sound/mix is still one of my favorites to this day.

-MW- Yes, it was a concious decission by Lars and James that the bass should take second seat to the low end of the guitars. We had long discussions about that, but the band had a pretty fixed idea on how they wanted the album to sound. As to the guitars: they had recorded six track of rythm guitar. They were panned: one hard left, the second one (playing the same riffs) to about 11 o'clock. The other two main tracks (playing slightly different riffs than the left side) where panned the same way to the right side, one full the other to about 2 o'clock. Then there were two tracks chugging just the low E string on the actual "chunks" and those were panned hard left and right as well and were responsible for all the low end of the guitars. No compression (a guitar amp compresses enough IMO) and just a little short room from a Quantec QRS Room Simulator.

"It wasn't a fun, easy record to make," Bob told Music Radar (via Blabbermouth). On Lars Ulrich's drumming style:  "I noticed that Lars played to James' [Hetfield] guitar, much like the way that Keith Moon played to Pete Townshend. That's fine for some bands, but not every one. Lars wanted Metallica to groove more. AC/DC's 'Back In Black' was a big reference point as a rock record that grooved. I told him that in order to get that feel, he had to be the focal point musically. So on certain songs, the band played to Lars. They followed him. It made a real difference."

Guitar - ESP Explorer with EMGs

Amps

Mesa Boogie MkIIc+ (Mike Bendinelli modded mkIIc++)
Marshall SLP 100watt (Jose Modded)
Ada mp1 with Ada mq1 eq (mp1 Voodoo modded?)
Mesa Boogie MkIV (could be stock?)
3x Mesa Boogie Strategy 400 poweramps

Effects

BBE sonic maximiser 422A
Rocktron Compressor Limiter Hush II
Aphex parametric EQs

Cabs

4x Marshall 4x12 Cabs loaded with vintage 30 speakers

Mikes

4x Shure SM57
4x Sennheiser MD421
1x Neumann U 87
2x AKG 414

Recipe:

1.Split the signal from your guitar to the 4 amps.
2.Use the sonic maximiser, Compressor Limiter Hush II and Aphex parametric EQs to fine tune the amp sounds
3.Put dummy loads on the MkIIc+ and MkIV
4.Chain the Ada mp1, MkIIc+ and MkIV each to its own Strategy 400 power amp
5.Run each Strategy 400 and the Marshall SLP to its own Marshall 4x12 cab with vintage 30s
6.Close mic each cab with an sm57 and md421 on axis on different speakers
7.Use a crossed stereo pair of 414s further back
8.Use a high up U 87
9.Construct a sonic tent from foam walls and U-haul blankets
10.ENJOY!

Once drum tracks were laid down, the live room was put to use for Newsted on bass — who played through a few SVT cabs and taken DI — and Hammet’s guitar; he played through Marshall amps with Mesa-Boogie heads.

Hetfield’s guitar setup was a bit more intense: “We ended up building this huge guitar cabinet for him,” Staub says. “It might have had an old Marshall head, and that would be just one part of the sound. I think his standard setup was this Mesa-Boogie head and then all these other amps were there to fill in the sonic picture. It would generally have a scooped kind of tone. I think we had nine or 11 cabinets—some stacked on top of each other, some on the floor, some baffled off from each other—and then we’d get this huge tent around this pile of cabinets curtained because as we were getting James’ guitar sound, he kept saying, ‘I want it to have more crunch.’ And to Bob and myself, crunch was more of a high-end thing, but to him crunch was more bottom end. What he wanted was when he hit the low strings, he wanted to have some length to it. And the only way to get that length was by curtaining off this small room around the cabinets and we’d have some mics farther away to get some ambience.

Michael Wagener о записи гитар на альбоме 1986 года:

Боб Рок сделал им другой звук на Черном Альбоме именно из-за необходимости вытащить бас из микса наверх. Видимо, Джейсон попросил 

Ларс годами играл в Хэтфилда, а народ думал, что это Хэт играет вперёд Ларса... 

... и добавил:

Примерный рецепт гитарного звука Хэтфилда с Черного альбома: