Reminds me of the prevailing legend (?) that on Def Leopard's Hysteria Mutt Lange insisted on some chord progressions via recording single notes from the guitars separately (Collen's mostly, the other guy wasn't much around) and mixing them together, "producing" each note. I always took that with a grain of salt, but with Mutt Lange you never know.
In comparison to the ebullient Pyromania, Hysteria always sounded contrived to me. Rocking the mixing console.