How It Was Recorded

INXS · Album, 1987

Kick

We have no album-wide recording chain for this album yet, only the songs below and what their sources say about the album sessions as a whole.

Songs from this album

From the album sessions

Statements the sources make about the sessions for this album as a whole, not about one song. Each is listed once, with the song record it comes from.

  • Yamaha REV7Lead vocalVerified

    Album sessions, not stated for this song: A split taken from the vocal microphones was put through it, set to a phase effect.

    From the record for Need You Tonight, where the source is linked.

  • Sennheiser MD 421DrumsReported

    Album sessions, not stated for this song: Used on the kick and on the toms, top and bottom.

    From the record for Need You Tonight, where the source is linked.

  • Neumann U89DrumsReported

    Album sessions, not stated for this song: Room microphones in the drum room.

    From the record for Need You Tonight, where the source is linked.

  • Unidentified Ribbon microphone (model not stated)DrumsReported

    Album sessions, not stated for this song: A mono room microphone of some sort of ribbon type, used alongside the U89 room microphones. (recalled with uncertainty)

    From the record for Need You Tonight, where the source is linked.

  • Neumann U 47 fetGuitarsVerified

    Album sessions, not stated for this song: One of a double-miked pair on the guitar amps, set X-Y with the Beyer.

    From the record for Need You Tonight, where the source is linked.

  • Beyerdynamic 201GuitarsVerified

    Album sessions, not stated for this song: Second of the X-Y pair on the guitar amps, level matched with the FET 47.

    From the record for Need You Tonight, where the source is linked.

  • UREI 1176GuitarsVerified

    Album sessions, not stated for this song: Both amp mics were run up at equal level through it with no EQ.

    From the record for Need You Tonight, where the source is linked.

  • Solid State Logic 4000-series consoleRecording and mix chainReported

    Album sessions, not stated for this song: Tracking console in the Rhinoceros control room, praised for its preamps, compressors and EQs.

    From the record for Need You Tonight, where the source is linked.

  • Otari 32-track digital recorder (model not stated)Recording and mix chainReported

    Main multitrack recorder for the Kick album.

    From the record for Need You Tonight, where the source is linked.

  • Studer 800 MK3Recording and mix chainVerified

    Album sessions, not stated for this song: Slaved to the Otari, and helped on a couple of occasions when the Otari said it was recording but was not.

    From the record for Need You Tonight, where the source is linked.