{"id":12054,"date":"2018-03-05T09:42:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T14:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=12054"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:31:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T14:31:48","slug":"and-jason-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/and-jason-for-all.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;and Jason for all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rather large complaint by bassists that are fans of Metallica is that in the original studio recordings for the album <i>&#8230;And Justice For All<\/i>, Jason Newsted&#8217;s bass can barely be heard.<\/p>\n<p>The response to this by Metallica fans who wanted to hear the best was to literally remix the entire album using the tools and tracks they had available to them.<\/p>\n<p>What happened is a totally unofficial re-release of the album which goes by several names, a few of which being <i>&#8230;And Jason For All<\/i> and <i>&#8230;And Justice for Jason<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the entire album with the &#8220;enhanced&#8221; bass track:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6kqTcLwUYj8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>&#8220;Bass too loud?&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>So now we have the &#8220;fixed&#8221; album, but complaints started filing in that while the bass can definitely be heard now, its place in the mix doesn&#8217;t seem to fit all that well due to the fact the remix is a fan-based effort.<\/p>\n<p>This however is a minor complaint, because better to hear something instead of nothing.<\/p>\n<h3>Why was the bass buried in the original studio release?<\/h3>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/metallica-jason-newsted-no-respect\/\">this article<\/a>, a co-producer of the album stated it was James and Lars that specifically said to turn the bass down during production.<\/p>\n<p>But in the same article, Jason stated the bass was buried because of a &#8220;sonic wall&#8221; issue, being that both the guitars and the bass were battling it out for the same frequency range and that is why the bass isn&#8217;t heard.<\/p>\n<p>Is one story true and the other false, or are both true? We&#8217;ll never know for sure.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s cool that a &#8220;fixed&#8221; version of the album exists where the bass can be heard, even if the mix isn&#8217;t the best.<\/p>\n<p><b>[Update: Alternative fan remix with better info]<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Below is an alternative fax remix, but with one rather big difference. This one actually stated which ones were original Jason tracks and which ones were covers, as follows:<\/p>\n<p>1. Blackened &#8211; 0:00 *Original Jason&#8217;s bass track<br \/>\n2. &#8230;And Justice For All &#8211; 6:38 *Original Jason&#8217;s bass track<br \/>\n3. Eye Of The Beholder &#8211; 16:30 Bass Cover<br \/>\n4. One &#8211; 22:51 *Original Jason&#8217;s bass track<br \/>\n5. The Shortest Straw &#8211; 30:20 *Original Jason&#8217;s bass track<br \/>\n6. Harvester Of Sorrow &#8211; 36:53 Bass Cover<br \/>\n7. The Frayed Ends Of Sanity &#8211; 42:38 Bass Cover<br \/>\n8. To Live Is To Die &#8211; 50:25 Bass Cover<br \/>\n9. Dyers Eve &#8211; 1:00:11 *Original Jason&#8217;s bass track<\/p>\n<p>You can decide for yourself which of the two fan remixes has the better bass audio clarity. Regardless of which you choose, it&#8217;s nice that some fans took the time and effort to actually put these together.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-m92LuaM6II?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rather large complaint by bassists that are fans of Metallica is that in the original studio recordings for the album &#8230;And Justice For All, Jason Newsted&#8217;s bass can barely be heard. The response to this by Metallica fans who wanted to hear the best was to literally remix the entire album using the tools &#8230; <a title=\"&#8230;and Jason for all\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/and-jason-for-all.html\" aria-label=\"More on &#8230;and Jason for all\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12185,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12054\/revisions\/12185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}