Recording Enter Sandman by Metallica, any tips?

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This is for my music tech AS coursework and I will be using the school's studio. The course started in September, so you can assume I know the basics. The task is to make the recording sound as close to the original as possible. Do the wise gurus of the home recording forum have any useful tips that might benefit me?
 
Try to find an equipment list of what they used and then find guys that can sound like them.
 
Make sure your intenation is set to the proper tuning..extremely key.
 
When tracking the guitars make sure to eq out all of those pesky midrange frequencies that produce tone. That's very important when trying to make the guitars sound like a quacking duck inside of a wet cardboard box. You'll need to triple or quadruple track the drums in order to capture enough arrogance. Overplaying is also very important in capturing the Lars vibe. When trying to sing like Hetfield make sure to use plenty of throaty grunts and attach the sound "eeeah" at the end of every phrase whenever possible.
 
ocnor said:
When tracking the guitars make sure to eq out all of those pesky midrange frequencies that produce tone. That's very important when trying to make the guitars sound like a quacking duck inside of a wet cardboard box. You'll need to triple or quadruple track the drums in order to capture enough arrogance. Overplaying is also very important in capturing the Lars vibe. When trying to sing like Hetfield make sure to use plenty of throaty grunts and attach the sound "eeeah" at the end of every phrase whenever possible.
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:laughings::laughings::laughings: Not a fan, I take it!
 
Lars used a folding chair in place of a snare drum, and of course hits it pretty randomly.

For your sake I hope you paid for the version you're listening to, or Lars will sic his fleet of attorneys on your poor student ass.
 
c7sus said:
Lars used a folding chair in place of a snare drum, and of course hits it pretty randomly.
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You are absolutely correct the folding metal chair is an essential component.
 
Use 10 times the amount of compression that you normally would on everything, then compress it hard, real hard during mastering ..... no wait that was on their last album. Heck do it anyways.
 
If none of it works out, just leave on a bus and form a Megadeth tribute band.
 
The guitars were recorded through Mesa Mark 4's. Left right and middle rhythm parts.

Spector bass through and SVT

The drums were all close miced, but there were dozens of room mics scattered around the large live room they were in. Those room mics are the reverb for the whole album. To change the reverb, they just used a different set of mics.

You need to get a birch drum kit with large deep toms and 24 inch kicks. You will not get the same sound out of a maple kit in the fusion sizes that are popular now.

Lots of EQ and compression mostly using the SSL console.
 
AndyDenyer said:
This is for my music tech AS coursework and I will be using the school's studio. The course started in September, so you can assume I know the basics. The task is to make the recording sound as close to the original as possible. Do the wise gurus of the home recording forum have any useful tips that might benefit me?
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You picked a motherfucker of a song to mimick.


And I will +1 the EEEEEYYYYEAAAHHHHH at the end of every word.
 
If you're going to program the drums, Steven Slate Drums have a replica kit used on the album in their Metal and More collection.
 
check out on youtube there's a bunch of videos of the band and bob rock going through how they recorded a bunch of their songs. not sure if they cover Enter Sandman, but you might pick up some general info on how to get the bands sound.
 
OP, are you recording the whole song all instruments?

start to finish?

or just a section?
 
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