Metallica - Death Magnetic - All GH3 stems (proper)

If you've already got tracks 1 - 5 the exact same files are in here so if you could please stop this torrent for a minute to copy those files over (and then force a re-check and start this torrent again), that'll help! Thanks, and enjoy.

udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80
udp://open.demonii.com:1337
udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969
udp://exodus.desync.com:6969

chtimixeur (2008-10-11)

You're the man ! Thank you SO MUCH !

Bamboozy (2008-10-11)

About the ripping process (someone asked in one of the old torrents)...
For the backing track you need to revert to the original version of GH3 (you can remove any downloaded patches on the 360 or PS3 and decline to update when you start the game). This allows the "no-fail" cheat to work in co-op career (a bug they fixed later), so you can load up any song in co-op and just not play to hear the whole backing track.
For guitar and bass you go to the practice section selection screen and it'll play whichever track you choose, except it'll fade out the very end too quickly and often cut the very beginning slightly. You can get the ends by actually playing the songs in co-op (or single-player for the guitar only). You can complete the beginnings easily by playing co-op with a regular controller for player 2 (whichever instrument they are, it'll play the beginning of their first note automatically). A little cut & paste and you've got complete tracks.
While you're getting the backing track you set the in-game "Guitar" volume to 0, and the rest of the time you set the "Band" to 0. Whatever I was recording I left at 8 (no clipping there). Effects were always 0, of course :)
Then, for synchronization, you set the "Band" to 1 and "Guitar" to 11 (max), and you play the beginning of each bass and guitar track, except you miss lots of notes on purpose (to let the backing track come through on its own). The backing track parts let you line things up perfectly with the backing track, and then from there you line up the guitar and bass parts with those tracks. The game does a drum stick tap to lead you into each song, but I found those aren't timed consistently from one playthrough to another, so they were no good for sync (sucks because that would have been slightly easier).
With digital recording it wasn't hard to line things up for sample-perfect sync. The beginning/end cuts were also easy and sample-perfect, so don't bother listening for anything ;) I don't think we can get any better out of GH3. If you hear some clicks at the end of the bass track for BB&S, that's just the bass track (they're a little clicky in general). Same clicks are in the earlier Ogg rip. And they're on both consoles.
I compared some stems from the PS3 version and found they sounded identical, quality-wise, but they had some nasty warble/dissonance going in places (which isn't in the 360 version or on the CD), as others have already noted elsewhere. So this is all from the 360 (digital stereo via optical-out to an optical-in).
P.S. If we can actually get all of the tracks from World Tour in a similar way, be very, very patient ;)

professorvalley (2008-10-11)

what the hell are stems? what's that mean?

Bamboozy (2008-10-11)

Guitar Hero III tracks are broken into three stereo "stems." One contains what the guitar player plays, one contains what the rhythm/bass player plays, the other contains everything else.
In this case you get:
- A bass track.
- A "backing" track with drums, vocals, and some rhythm guitar (when there's lead guitar).
- A guitar track (just the lead guitar when there is any, otherwise it's the rhythm guitars).

Sonictemple (2008-10-13)

How do i record this?

whytless_physh (2008-10-13)

Many, many thanks Bamboozy! And might I add an ingenious technique for ripping the stems. I can understand how that would be time consuming and probably frustrating at times. My sincere thanks for all your efforts once again.

guzz46 (2008-10-14)

many thanks bamboozy before this i had the ps3 rip and i thought that was good but this is much better, now i can increase the volume on the drums/volcals to make james voice more prominent, make the guitars stand out more, now it sounds as crisp as the cd (without the distortion) and unlike the cd there is now dynamic range as opposed to everything being max volume

Sonictemple (2008-10-16)

how do i use these files?..can i make a record out of it?

dochoots (2008-10-25)

These are great to work with. Thanks. Here's my try at a better sounding track from DM:

expometty (2008-11-12)

I hope we keep seeding this, it's amazing

nehuge (2009-04-04)

Anybody doing this for guitar heto metallica edition????