Steve Thompson Discusses The Missing Bass On Metallica's "Injustice For All" Album

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2 жыл бұрын

Music producer Steve Thompson recalls mixing Metallica's Injustice For All. He explains the missing bass on the album. He worked with Lars Ulrich on the drums and brought the bass up. Lars listens for a few seconds and asks "What happened to my drum sound"? Steve reworks the drum sound to Ulrich's liking. Then the Metallica drummers says "drop down the bass in the mix".
Thompson thought dropping down the bass was a joke. Ulrich continuously asked Thomson to drop down the bass even more. Metallica singer James Hetfield throws up his hands kind of clueless.
Thompson ended up giving the band what they wanted. It's the band's record and you need to respect the band's opinion.
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@smokesletsgo2374 Жыл бұрын

We finally know what Hetfield went like

@AntiSCO Жыл бұрын

Poor Steve. I think that whole affair just gets more annoying the more people ask about that shit. I swear he was looking around his desk for a pen or an envelope opener to end it all with at about the halfway mark. Hopefully he gets at least a shred of cold solace by reminding himself that he left no fingerprints on St. Anger. Hell, it barely sounded like Bob Rock left any fingerprints on the latter either.

@beatmet2355 Ай бұрын

Did you see the home video of the production of the Black Album? I mean “A Year and a Half…” Part 1. Bob and Lars have an argument about the drums being too loud in “The Unforgiven.” Lars wanted them much louder than the guitars were and Bob told him, “it sounds stupid” and Bob turned the guitars back up to what you hear now. Lars likes to emphasize the drums over everything else. Right or wrong.

@robpace881 2 жыл бұрын

Justice For Jason

@rawdez_ Жыл бұрын

Metallica's "Injustice For All" Album

@EvangelhoImigrante 2 жыл бұрын

Lars could start by actually learning how to play the drums...

@chadbaier2557 Жыл бұрын

The lame drum skills fell into place on ...and justice for all, to me at least

@pavelkostar5202 2 жыл бұрын

Can't listen to and justice for all loud because it sounds like it's going to blow my speakers

@smith8281 Жыл бұрын

Same here. The low end distorts when you crank the album

@QuickStix26 21 сағат бұрын

I can only imagine if Steve had a copy of AJFA with the bass as it should have been. Would be worth something.

@jamesb1988 16 күн бұрын

Bob Rock has been The Offspring's producer since Rise & Fall, Rage & Grace and all the albums sound great. Bob Rock is a hell of a producer, just listen to Load & Garage Inc (the first disc) they sound absolutely perfect. With St. Anger, it is what it is. For the band it felt right at the time.

@rocowolf918 2 ай бұрын

I thought that album had to much bass. I met him mixing the first album with Tesla in Sacramento mixing Getting Better and it sounded great and great enough to do 3 more albums that went platinum

@dathorndike4908 Жыл бұрын

So how do you explain Breadfan and The Prince? Two Justice outtakes that have a proper guitar-vocal-bass-drum mix??

@ShadowAngel-lt8nw Жыл бұрын

Because they were that: Outtakes. Ulrich didn't care about them. They weren't on the album, they didn't matter to him.

@jacobm.5420 Жыл бұрын

umm..... I just wanna say that................. it's actually called............... "And Justice For All".... but... yah..........

@ApexLunatic 2 жыл бұрын

There’s no bass in this interview

@pkj77 2 жыл бұрын

8:05 dude you pronounced Flemming Rasmussen last name wrong i´m danish so yes i know how to say it sorry dude, i never thought about the missing bass when i first started listening to Metallica back when thry released TBA, now i´d love a version of Justice with bass, i dont hate the album as it is would be fun hearing it with bass

@NPC-30 6 ай бұрын

Do you know how to pronounce everything?

@Frip36 Жыл бұрын

"In a nutshell what happened." Why would you say "in a nutshell"? Steve likes to talk. Let him take as little or as much time as he wants. Dude should have told you, "Dunno, I've never been in a nutshell." 0:59

@Corleone007 2 жыл бұрын

Something causes this clip hard to watch and listen. Maybe too much "Here's the thing" here... big problem with spelling many words.

@ThisDarkeSoul 2 жыл бұрын

Good show but, constructive crit here, you need to stop saying "Here's the thing" so much.

@Diesel0807 6 ай бұрын

Dis lars even play any drums on that record? The drum sound is hilarious on that record huge wet click bass drum paper thin snare and the cymbals sound like like bad samples, and he cant play any of it live

@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle 2 жыл бұрын

And Justice for All B league album, horrible production on the vocals, disjointed songs sounded pieced togerher.

@sh4rpys 2 жыл бұрын

Still my favourite metallica record

@CarloNassar 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the way songs were put together was my main complaint about the album, aside from the mixing (not just because of the bass).

@poppysm1c433 2 жыл бұрын

this is funny just how these guys are talking shit while metallica really made the best metal album of all time and I spend hours trying to figure out that drum sound ecspecially the kick black album has great kick sound but the kick on justice is hard as shit and so unique its beautiful talk ur shit but lars is a fucking studio genius and the proof is in the pudding

@donjuanmckenzie4897 2 жыл бұрын

All they did was make an album with no bass because they were immature 25 year olds, no big deal or anything.

@rawdez_ Жыл бұрын

Lars, please re-login.

@NPC-30 Жыл бұрын

Stop being a sheep and pay attention.

@johnston.scott64 2 жыл бұрын

I was unfortunate enough to come across this particular exchange through something that Google thought I would find interesting. I really don't care what too fat dudes, who have difficulty speaking with complete sentence in less than 20 seconds (they seem to pause for thought on every single word that they spoke) have to say about anything even if they were there. Do I agree that metallica shafted Jason on the bass tracks, yes. Still the music's pretty good. Do I agree that St Anger was incredibly dry and lifeless? Yes I do. I also thought the song writing was shoddy at best. I wondered if James actually did dry out before recording that album. It did seem like a bunch of hackney, thrown together wrist from some 17-year-old playing songs in his basement. But then again I don't know why these two are talking about this album 30 years later when all has been said and it's already been done. Nobody's going to go back and revisit these albums. They're done they're out there that's that. Oh that does remind me I found some clown who posted something he said this is what Jason's be sure to sound like on Justice, turns out he just dubbed in his own baselines over the record. That kind of shit is pathetic.

@rawdez_ Жыл бұрын

lol, there are versions of AJFA with bass made by fans. and they are great.

@ShadowAngel-lt8nw Жыл бұрын

"too fat dudes" - too? two? "have difficulty speaking" - just like you have a difficult time writing proper english? "Do I agree that metallica shafted Jason on the bass tracks, yes" - not a comma, a question mark would apply there. "James actually did dry" - what did he dry? leaves? his strings? "Nobody's going to go back and revisit these albums." - which is sad, because there's a lot of potential in that album, if it was given a proper remix and a good mastering job. "baselines" - bass lines So you make fun of somebody using empty phrases, which is a typical american thing, while you butcher the english language. And you want to be taken serious? "That kind of shit is pathetic" - as is your entire post.