Everclear · Album, 2000
Songs from an American Movie Vol. One: Learning How to Smile
6 sourced items across 4 sectionsVerified2Reported4
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: Wonderful. We found nothing specific to this song, so this album record is the closest account we have.
What the sources do and do not say
One Mix article covers both Everclear albums of 2000 and never names Wonderful, so every row is album-level. The basement-studio statements are taken as Vol. 1 because the article says Vol. 2 was recorded at Sunset Studios; the article does not label the basement sessions Vol. 1 in so many words. The VocALign row sits in a plug-in passage that does not name the volume, but it describes the bass overdubs of the basement sessions.
Vocals
2 items
Art Alexakis
Microphone
The real chain
AKG C 12
Reported
Alexakis's vocal microphone, one of the microphones he bought for his basement studio.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Input chain
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Avid Pro Tools
Reported
Vocals were tracked to a click track straight into Pro Tools at the basement studio.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Avid Pro Tools
DAW
The DAW used on the record.
Acoustic guitars
1 item
Input chain
The real chain
Avid Pro Tools
Reported
Acoustic guitars were tracked to a click track straight into Pro Tools at the basement studio.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Avid Pro Tools
DAW
The DAW used on the record.
Bass
1 item
Craig Montoya
Mix effects
The real chain
Unidentified VocALign
Verified
Used on the later bass parts so they locked in phase with the original bass lines.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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No plugin suggested. This is already software, so the stand-in is the thing itself. No product link has been added for it yet.
Whole-album tracking and mixing
2 items
Input chain
The real chain
Apogee AD-8000
Verified
Bought midway through Vol. 1; Fox heard clearer high end and a tighter low end from it.
Source: Mix, 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.
Mix effects
The real chain
Sony 48-track digital machine (model not stated)
Reported
Vol. 1 mixes were submixed in Pro Tools and transferred to a Sony 48-track digital machine, with no analogue slave.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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No plugin suggested. A digital recorder. Your DAW does this job, so no plugin is needed to stand in for it.
Sources
- Everclear, Mix, 2001-01-01. Accessed 15 Nov 2026.
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