[visualphoenix]

While I’m unsure if this was true of Master of Puppets, I recall hearing an anecdote about And Justice For All…

When the engineers first rewound the master tapes for Justice they thought the tape was being shredded because the tape machine was making a very strange noise. When they stopped to take a look, they saw thousands and thousands of tiny tape edits. Apparently that was key to how Flemming Rasmussen got the drums so locked in. Hand editing and splicing every beat.

The sound the engineers heard that they thought was the tape shredding was the sound of all of those hand edits flying over the tape head.

[camgunz]

I doubt this for 2 reasons:

- It would be incredibly laborious, and the possibility you'd mess the tape up and require another "good take" from a performer is way too high. You can do a few splices; you can't do 1000s of them.

- You generally can't do this w/ drums because of cymbals.

[visualphoenix]

Might sound incredible, but I have no reason to doubt my source: my father mixed AJFA.

[luckydata]

that's a bs story made up to shit on Lars

[visualphoenix]

Lars is an incredible drummer.