How It Was Recorded

John Legend · Album, 2013

Love in the Future

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.

  • Telefunken U47Lead vocal (album-wide chain)Verified

    Tozer says this late-1940s microphone was his usual choice for recording Legend's vocals on the album sessions.

    From the record for All of Me, where the source is linked.

  • Neve 1073 or 1081Lead vocal (album-wide chain)Verified

    Album sessions, not stated for this song: Tozer says the vocal preamp was mostly a Neve 1073 or 1081, chosen for character rather than neutrality.

    From the record for All of Me, where the source is linked.

  • UREI 1176Lead vocal (album-wide chain)Verified

    Album sessions, not stated for this song: Tozer says the vocal microphone mostly went into an 1176 for light compression on the way in.

    From the record for All of Me, where the source is linked.

  • Teletronix LA-2ALead vocal (album-wide chain)Verified

    Album sessions, not stated for this song: Tozer says an LA-2A was sometimes used in place of the 1176 on the vocal.

    From the record for All of Me, where the source is linked.

  • Ampex ATR-102Lead vocal (album-wide chain)Verified

    Album sessions, not stated for this song: Tozer says the vocals were recorded to half-inch tape on this machine, mostly, before going into the computer.

    From the record for All of Me, where the source is linked.

  • Lavry Gold convertersLead vocal (album-wide chain)Verified

    Album sessions, not stated for this song: Tozer says the signal came off the tape machine through the converters at Germano Studios and then into Logic Pro.

    From the record for All of Me, where the source is linked.

  • Universal Audio UAD EMT 140Lead vocal (album-wide chain)Verified

    Tozer says this plate reverb emulation was used all over the vocals on the album.

    From the record for All of Me, where the source is linked.