How It Was Recorded

Foo Fighters · Album, 2005

In Your Honor

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: Best of You. We found nothing specific to this song, so this album record is the closest account we have.

Grohl lead vocalsGrohl acoustic guitarsKick drumVerified4Reported5

What the sources do and do not say

One Mix feature on the In Your Honor sessions, so this is an album record; it never names Best of You. The kick drum and vocal-chain statements appear to concern the rock disc and the guitar mics the acoustic disc, but the article does not always say which, and the Soundelux 251 vocal-room-mic sentence sits in the acoustic section. No guitar amp, bass or mix chain for the rock tracks is given. The 602 is given without a maker in the text; Sennheiser is assumed as the maker of that model number.

Grohl lead vocals

Dave Grohl

Microphone

Soundelux 251

Reported

Used as a room microphone on all of Grohl's vocals.

Position
Room microphone

Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026

No plugin suggested. Microphone-modelling plugins only work with their own matched hardware microphone, so there is no plugin to link. Placement and the room matter more than the model.

Input chain

Martek Preamp (model not stated)

Verified

Preamp that the 251 was run into, in the same passage that covers the room microphone on Grohl's vocals.

Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026

No plugin suggested. The source does not name the model, so no specific plugin can be suggested.

dbx 160XT

Verified

Compressor the 251 was used into, alongside the Martek preamp, which the producer says sounds great despite its low price.

Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026

Close match

Universal Audio dbx 160 Compressor / Limiter

compressor

Models the original dbx 160. The 160X and 160XT are later versions of it.

Get the plugin ↗What else it stands in for

Also worth a look: Waves dbx 160 Compressor / Limiter (Models the original dbx 160. The 160X and 160XT are later versions of it).

Grohl acoustic guitars

Dave Grohl

Microphone

Soundelux 251

Reported

One of two microphones generally used on Grohl's acoustic guitars, close to the soundhole.

Position
Close to the soundhole

Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026

No plugin suggested. Microphone-modelling plugins only work with their own matched hardware microphone, so there is no plugin to link. Placement and the room matter more than the model.

RCA 77-DX

Verified

Second of the two microphones generally used on Grohl's acoustic guitars, aimed at the neck at the same distance as the 251.

Position
On the neck at about the 12th fret

Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026

No plugin suggested. Microphone-modelling plugins only work with their own matched hardware microphone, so there is no plugin to link. Placement and the room matter more than the model.

Kick drum

Taylor Hawkins

Instrument

Slingerland 22-inch black kick drum

Verified

Kick drum that stayed constant while the rest of the kit changed from song to song, and the same one used on the previous record.

Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026

Approximate

Toontrack Superior Drummer 3

drum instrument

A sampled drum instrument. It does not claim to be this kit or drum.

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Microphone

Sennheiser 602

Reported

Microphone placed inside the kick drum.

Position
Inside the kick drum

Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026

No plugin suggested. Microphone-modelling plugins only work with their own matched hardware microphone, so there is no plugin to link. Placement and the room matter more than the model.

Soundelux 251

Reported

Microphone placed outside the kick drum.

Position
Outside the kick drum

Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026

No plugin suggested. Microphone-modelling plugins only work with their own matched hardware microphone, so there is no plugin to link. Placement and the room matter more than the model.

Yamaha NS-10 woofer wired as a microphone

Reported

Speaker with its leads reversed so it acts as a microphone for the kick drum, plugged into a mic preamp that needed a great deal of gain.

Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026

No plugin suggested. A loudspeaker wired as a microphone to catch only sub-bass. No plugin does this; a sub-harmonic generator is a different process.

Sources

  1. Foo Fighters Double Up For "In Your Honor", Mix, 2005-08. Accessed 15 Nov 2026.
Verified

Stated by the engineer, producer or artist, or by the manufacturer.

Reported

Stated by a reputable secondary source.

Inferred

An educated suggestion, not a documented fact.

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