How It Was Recorded

Gear · compressor

SSL 4000 compressor

Records it appears on · 1

  • Metallica

    Metallica · Album, 1991

    • Tracking and mix chain · Mix effectsVerifiedRock used an SSL compressor across the drums and bass buses and left the guitars uncompressed, because Hetfield disliked what it did to his guitars.Position: Across the drums and bass buses, not the guitars

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First choice · Approximate

Waves SSL G-Master Buss Compressor

compressor

The source does not say whether this was the desk's bus compressor or a channel compressor. This models the bus compressor.

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Alternative · Approximate

Solid State Logic SSL Native Bus Compressor 2

compressor

The source does not say whether this was the desk's bus compressor or a channel compressor. This is SSL's own bus compressor plugin.

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