Guitarist Phil Collen remembered a peculiar detail from the recording sessions of Def Leppard‘s monumental 1987 record “Hysteria” – tracking each guitar individually on the title track. He explained to Guitarist Magazine:
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“Well, it was only on the ‘I gotta know tonight’ section. He [producer Mutt Lange] wanted that part to have clarity
“When you play it as a chord, there’s a slight arpeggio-ness to it. So we wanted to get rid of that. And we didn’t want it to sound like a keyboard.
“So you’d hit each note, track that up, double-track everything, so it would be six strings double-tracked.
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“So it didn’t sound like it was plucked, it didn’t sound like it was arpeggiated and it didn’t sound like a keyboard.
“It’s a great song to talk about, because it had all the elements of the ‘Hysteria’ recording process.”
