Eddie Money · Album, 1977
Eddie Money
13 sourced items across 4 sectionsVerified3Reported10
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: Baby Hold On, Two Tickets to Paradise. 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 source is Mix's Classic Tracks on "Two Tickets to Paradise", which describes the sessions for the whole 1977 album at Record Plant (producer Bruce Botnick, engineer Andy Johns, assistant Mike Clink). Baby Hold On is mentioned only as a song Botnick heard and as the first single, so every row is album-level. The Shure 57 is given as "57" in the text; the mic on Money's vocal and Lyon's amp are narrative parentheses, so reported.
Lead vocal
1 item
Eddie Money
Microphone
The real chain
Neumann U 47
Reported
Microphone for Eddie Money's keeper vocals, recorded after the live tracking dates.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Lead guitar
1 item
Jimmy Lyon
Input chain
The real chain
Unidentified Compressor (model not stated)
Reported
Compressor on Jimmy Lyon's guitar signal; model not given.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Drum kit
3 items
Gary Mallaber
Microphone
The real chain
Neumann U 87
Reported
Botnick recalls Andy Johns placing a pair of these as distant room microphones behind the kit.
- Position
- about ten feet behind the drums
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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The real chain
Neumann U 87
Reported
Pair of microphones used by Andy Johns as drum overheads.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Input chain
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Unidentified Compressor (model not stated)
Reported
Botnick recalls a heavily squashing compressor on the rear drum microphones, blended in on two tracks.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Studio chain and mix
8 items
Input chain
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API Console (model not stated)
Reported
The 24-input console in Record Plant Studio C that the album was tracked through.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Close match
Universal Audio API Vision Channel Strip Collection
channel strip
Models the channel strip of API's Vision console, built from the same module family.
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3M M79 24-track tape machine
Reported
The 24-track tape machine the album was recorded to.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Approximate
Slate Digital Virtual Tape Machines
tape
Models two Studer machines, not this recorder. It gives the general behaviour of analogue multitrack tape.
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- Universal Audio Studer A800 Tape Recorder (Models a Studer A800, not this recorder. It gives the general behaviour of analogue multitrack tape)
The real chain
UREI 1176
Verified
Botnick says Andy Johns had many of these limiters and limited the instruments heavily.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Universal Audio 1176 Classic Limiter Collection
compressor
Models several revisions of the 1176, including the blackface units.
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- Waves CLA-76 Compressor / Limiter (Models two 1176 revisions (blacky and bluey))
The real chain
Pultec EQ (model not stated)
Verified
Botnick says Andy Johns had some of these equalisers alongside the limiters and the console.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Universal Audio Pultec Passive EQ Collection
equaliser
Models the Pultec EQP-1A, MEQ-5 and HLF-3C. The source does not say which Pultec was used.
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- Waves PuigTec EQs (EQP-1A and MEQ-5) (Models the Pultec EQP-1A and MEQ-5)
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Pye Limiter (model not stated)
Verified
Clink recalls a British Pye limiter long left on a shelf at the studio being brought into use by Johns.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Mix effects
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API Console (model not stated)
Reported
The larger API console in Record Plant Studio D on which the album was mixed.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Close match
Universal Audio API Vision Channel Strip Collection
channel strip
Models the channel strip of API's Vision console, built from the same module family.
The real chain
EMT 140
Reported
Plate reverb, named as one of the two main reverbs in the light post-processing of the mix.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Emulation of this unit
Universal Audio EMT 140 Classic Plate Reverberator
reverb
Models three EMT 140 plates, made with EMT.
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- Soundtoys Little Plate (A simpler EMT 140 model with one decay control)
The real chain
EMT 250
Reported
Botnick describes an old digital reverb of this model used in the mix.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Emulation of this unit
Universal Audio EMT 250 Classic Electronic Reverb
reverb
Model of the EMT 250 digital reverb, made with EMT.
Sources
- Classic Tracks: Eddie Money, "Two Tickets to Paradise", Mix, 2024-05-24. Accessed 15 Nov 2026.
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