That Was Just Your Life (Master Bass Track)

[365metal]

why couldnt i hear this awesome line on the damn album

[craafter]

720p but not 480p?

[GAKIIIIIN]

Rob is a bass badass

[XaviOrtega1]

I really really love this tone chunky and fat but i just noticed that gets buried in the mix with the other instruments like Rex from Pantera... anyway..! it's nice isn't it?

[06wraightm]

love the galloping in the chorus!! :D

[thelegendoflink52]

Geez, this sound is strong enough to knock your brain right out of you head!

[BUNI666]

wtf? it sounds abit over tuned is it just me?

[XaviOrtega1]

Yes Sir, Robert uses a bass effect called Overdrive...! sounds like punchy and fat...

[BUNI666]

@XaviOrtega1 i know wats an overdrive dude but i was tired and dident realize its ok :)

[XaviOrtega1]

Y de seguro a parte de tonto eres latino, no es cierto? porque escribes super mal, de milagro has de saber que es un overdrive... ja ja

[BUNI666]

@XaviOrtega1 wtf?

[thelegendoflink52]

It's the master track, man. You're an idiot.

[KingTwili]

@thelegendoflink52

I'm well aware. Comments made well over a year ago don't reflect current knowledge.

[thelegendoflink52]

Robert Trujillo = Cliff's pupil.

[yovioleatuzorramadre]

not bad

[DRerAGO]

I hope, in the next album, there will be a louder bass track.

Please, James!

Please, Lars!

[GDawg148]

If you ask me, I think its better to have the other parts turned down, rather than off completely.

[HDx89]

why does it sound familiar to battery???

[johnthegreek178]

@HDx89 Come on man, it's the same band, it's nothing irregular

[chodrick1]

i once farted and it sounded just like this

[basslovak]

@chodrick1 fail joke

[HouseHoldGuy1]

i like it better this way, with the bass up because i can follow along with the rest of the song too

[MegaYummyPie]

this is just really rly rly enhanched bass

[tomtebass]

bassporn

[dogacan88]

at 2:26 I felt like someone is punching me in the face:P Very nice sound, turjillo has gorilla fingers

[DRerAGO]

Amazing bass line. And amazing bass sound.

[Masturboy94]

very good sound!

[SuperRockinMuffin10]

u can hear the rest of the band in the intro

[johnthegreek178]

@SuperRockinMuffin10 You can hear it in the whole video -_-

[miafan89]

If your name is not Robert Trujillo then theres no way you can sound like Robert Trujillo sorry lol

[TheSynysterSaint0]

@miafan89 If your name is not Cliff Burton then there's no way you can sound like a bassist for Metallica.

[MetallicRozze]

@TheSynysterSaint0 perfect said!!! but anyway things with Cliff had to happen and now the almost-perfect bassist is Trujillo. Cliff 4 ever!

[fergusmc69]

This is pish

[iceheadstudios]

Bass turned up + drums turned down + less compression = perfect Death Magnetic. Too bad it'll never happen.

[RandomoVideos]

he gets the sound that jason gets with a pick with his fingers

[Scarecrow545]

@RandomoVideos

yeah right

[RandomoVideos]

He does, listen to the master tracks of both Jason and Rob. Rob's got the same sound, just with a bit more bass

[Scarecrow545]

@RandomoVideos

I have. none of the tracks on Justice or TBA sound anything close to Rob's bass tone

[paradoxson]

@RandomoVideos

that comes from the strings -.-

[californiadude98]

it sounds like cliff

[Jaikith]

@californiadude98 It's those little triplets during the chorus like at 2:50...so awesome.

[q00q0C52]

@californiadude98 I really think cliff would do more complicated things and not follow the guitars so much..just listen to bass tracks from fight fire with fire or battery (both thrash songs too) and you will understand what I am saying..but this bassline is good too

[linkin0joako]

@californiadude98 cliff dont speak like a bass :D

[Histpolsci]

Ah, I love this. Sure, the bass follows the guitars around (or do the treble guitars follow the bass?! The mind boggles!), but it still sounds great.

[JacoBrownolymetal666]

The boss ODB3 is great for this kind of sound.

1st get a nice punchy bass sound ( lots of treble, new strings too would help)

2nd add the Boss ODB-3

Level- 12 o'clock

Bass - 4 o'clock

Treble - 1 o'clock

Balance - 9 o'clock

Gain - 8 o'clock ( A tiny tiny amount)

That gets you Robs sound!!!

[teamkillaman]

hey is there any way you could put the vocal and drum track on youtube too?

[darkragnarok21]

I got this from the Guitar Hero games, so it is the master. I don't know why you can still hear the other instruments though and I'm pretty sure it'd be hard to separate individual instruments like this in Audacity or any other audio program

[Histpolsci]

As for why you can hear the other instruments, it might have something to do with the controversial way Death Magnetic was produced/mixed. I'm no expert; just a guess.

[bigtrick08]

@darkragnarok21 maybe they played the song through monitors instead of headphones when tracking the bass, and the mics then picked up those noises as well? just a theory

[darkragnarok21]

@bigtrick08 I would think that the bass equipment would be in a different room but that is possible

[bigtrick08]

@darkragnarok21 yea like i said, just a theory, best i can come up with, i like how dude thinks you can just choose instruments and turn them down haha once a song is mixed there is no possible way to seperate the tracks lol

[MrMrkfuk]

@darkragnarok21

is that, as you can see in mission metallica they recorded with monitors

[lilfili123]

@bigtrick08 if you watch the death mag making video he does record without headphones

[piotraz]

@darkragnarok21 i'm pretty sure i can still hear drums, vocals, and guitar...

[PSiCKoGiZMo]

@darkragnarok21 Audacity, no one program, can separate tracks. I use audacity, ardour, garageband, logic pro... and you cant change volume at what you want. Only with a program like ardour/garageband if you have the tracks separated. I know what I say

[darkragnarok21]

@PSiCKoGiZMo People have separated tracks though other means but it's not perfectly isolated or isolated all tracks. To get files like the bass tracks you do have to have the master tracks. And yes there is no way for a normal person to separate the tracks which is what I stated before.

[streetrulez]

@KingTwili Regardless of your ignorance towards how he actually achieved the bass track, even if he had turned the volume on the other instruments down, it would still count as the bass master track.

[KingTwili]

@streetrulez

Way to reply to a year old comment. Yeah, I was ignorant then. Thanks for pointing that out. :rolleyes:

[streetrulez]

@KingTwili You're welcome.

[ChucklesMginty]

@KingTwili Holy shit, it's the prince of fecking darkness.

[Heliodromus19]

Oh, next week I'll start raping a Boss ODB-3 just like that :D

[Knifyman]

I have that bass sound w00t

[80srockixass]

how?

[Knifyman]

I use some kind of special strings and I keep up the gain. I also use 5 stringer and use a solid bass. Don't use fender, I would prefer LTD or Yamaha for the best sound

[80srockixass]

so you use your amps natural gain, not a pedal?

[Knifyman]

Yup

[MetallicAsMidget]

umm CircuFronja.....STFU.....Rob is a fucking amazing bassist and you should be hatin him just becuz hes not cliff.....BUT im not saying that i hate cliff....cliff would most likely still be with metallica if they never had that accident...

[stevo11223344556677]

I dont see how people have the cheek to say that jason just used to follow the guitars, when this is exactly whats done here...

[rockrenegade]

And on closer listen, Jason didn't just follow the guitars.

[MetalVinn]

He actually had some really interesting basslines at times

[OrderedBee]

Play like Cliff but with more anger

[Xatalion]

Awesome

[ZarBono]

It's fantastic pal, I'm gonna watch all of them.

[MattBodossian]

his style in songs reminds me alot like cliffs was

[MattBodossian]

dude why dont you go listen to some of cliffs bass tracks on ride the lightning

they both use distortion and hit the strings with there fingers hard

[CircuFronja]

why don'you see the intro of cliff in for whom the bell tolls live on cliff 'em all and the solo of this fake bassist...he doesn't have the sense of time and he have to take the time with picking 4/4...the effects don't make the bass player...

[ropza]

Fake bassist?

Quit being such a fucking douche and go waste your time somewhere else.

[CircuFronja]

you're a Bass Player? do you have any idea of what's it? I think no...

[ropza]

Wow, you must have used up all your brainpower to come up with that post.

[kornverfield20]

ohhh poor dude, did u whore girlfriend left you and now u hate the world? u will never ever be, a little part of what ROBERT TRUJILLO (REAL METAL BASS PLAYER) is, so get a life poser

[CircuFronja]

Siete uno più merda dell'altro...fate pena...non sapete un cazzo ne di basso elettrico ne di metal.

Poser lo dici a qualcun altro perchè a quanto vedo dal tuo nickname di bassisti e di metal ne sai poco e niente...Quindi tenetevi Trujillo ma non dite che è un grande bassista perchè state dicendo fesserie.

TRANSLATE THIS LOSER!

[jamethe2]

I know it says:

"I'm a poser my whore girlfriend did leave me and i hate the world, I like to jerk off to my mommy and daddy and I'm a poser and stay on the computer and play with myself while also looking at gay porn and I think all bassist are fake"

I thinnk thats pretty much what CircuFronja said in spanish.

Oh ya go die in a hole cause you know nothing about bassists and music you prick

[Metallicgnacio]

People from PORTUGAL speak Spanish??

No offense dude, but you are almost as stupid as him

[mjdillaha]

it says: "i'm gay"...roughly.

[LuOcCeTto]

You my friend are a really good eye in bassists, Robert Trujillo is the sound of Metallica, Jason newsted is a shit compared to Trujillo, very good my friend, perfect, all my support to you.

[krushruss]

he may be a better bass player but ill take Newsteds backing vocals and stage presence any day over trujillo

[everybodylovesps3]

I'll give Jason the nod when it comes to backing vocals, but Trujillo's stage presence is better. It's awesome watching him run around the stage and get that look on his face on the crazy bass parts. Metallica needs to turn their bass higher and drums lower.

[MetalRhythmSection]

Jason had more stage presence than Trujillo... Trujillo still kicks ass though. I agree with you on the mixing though... Metallica have always had the bass volume incredibly low, and even though fanboys will deny it, even on the Cliff albums, the bass was still disgracefully quiet

[Vexer333]

you are exactly right metalrhythm the only reason you could really hear cliff in the albums is because his tone cut through the guitars

[a1gold174]

You mean the crab walk?

[AngelicStorm1]

You what? Go and listen to Rob's bass playing in Suicidal Tendencies, and then come back and call him a ''fake bassist''. And if you do that, and still say that, you either need a hearing aid, or know NOTHING about good music, or bass playing!

[braddudeguy]

Probably because he uses distortion has a rickenbacker and uses his fingers.

[MattBodossian]

yeah and they attack the strings hard

[LuOcCeTto]

You're right, I konow Trujillo and he told me that he used a Rickenbacker in this one and in All Nightmare Long, very good observation.

[MetalVinn]

That's improbable, he uses a five string on all nightmare long

[tallicafan250169]

actually ive seen covers with 4 strings check out pajdofs cover

[AsDaylightDies7]

Wicked Awesome.