Alanis Morissette · Album, 1996
Jagged Little Pill
8 sourced items across 2 sectionsVerified5Reported3
This is an album-level record: the sources describe how the album as a whole was recorded, not one song. Where a detail belongs to a single song, the row says so.
Songs this record stands for: All I Really Want, Hand in My Pocket, Head over Feet, Ironic, You Learn, You Oughta Know. We found nothing specific to these songs, so this album record is the closest account we have.
What the sources do and do not say
The only article that discusses the Jagged Little Pill sessions in detail is Sound On Sound's 1997 Christopher Fogel interview; it never names Ironic, so every row is album-level. The MusicRadar piece on Ironic and the 2012 SOS Havoc and Bright Lights and 2002 Mix live-sound articles were read and give no gear for this recording. Fogel also names an AMS unit (model not stated) for vocal doubling, omitted as it has no model.
Lead and backing vocals
4 items
Alanis Morissette
Microphone
The real chain
AKG C 12
Verified
Chosen by instinct as the microphone for Morissette's vocals on the album sessions, and never swapped for another.
Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Input chain
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Demeter Preamp (model not stated)
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Preamplifier the C12 vocal microphone was fed through on the album.
Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Teletronix LA-2A
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Old compressor the C12 vocal chain went through after the preamp on the album.
Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Emulation of this unit
Universal Audio Teletronix LA-2A Leveler Collection
compressor
Universal Audio owns the Teletronix name; this is its own model of the LA-2A.
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- Waves CLA-2A Compressor / Limiter (Models an LA-2A from Chris Lord-Alge's collection. Cheaper and runs without UA hardware)
Mix effects
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Yamaha SPX990
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Ran a doubling program used to create most of the doubled vocal sounds electronically.
Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Eventide H3000 Factory Mk II
multi-effect
A studio digital multi-effects built around pitch shifting, delay and modulation, the kind of programme used here; it is not a model of this unit.
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- Waves Doubler (Thickens a vocal with slightly detuned, delayed copies, the same doubling effect the unit provided on this record; it is not a model of this unit)
Recording and mix chain
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Input chain
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Euphonix CSII
Reported
Console at Glen Ballard's home studio where the album was written, recorded and mixed.
Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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FabFilter Pro-Q 4
equaliser
A clean parametric equaliser that does the same tone-shaping job as this desk's channel EQ; it is not a model of this unit.
The real chain
Alesis ADAT
Reported
Several ADAT recorders, both original and XT models, linked digitally to the console and used for the bulk of the recording.
Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Mix effects
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TL Audio C1 stereo compressor
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Stereo compressor that Fogel says sat on all of the album's mixes.
Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Waves dbx 160 Compressor / Limiter
compressor
A solid-state gain-cell compressor of the VCA type, without the valve stages; it is not a model of this unit.
The real chain
Apogee 500 digital converter
Reported
Converter the DAT mastering copy of the mixes was recorded through, at 48kHz.
Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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No plugin suggested. A converter between analogue and digital. Your audio interface does this job, so no plugin is needed.
Sources
- Christopher Fogel: Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill, Sound On Sound, 1997-03. Accessed 15 Nov 2026.
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