How It Was Recorded

Lizzo · Album, 2022

Special

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: About Damn Time. We found nothing specific to this song, so this album record is the closest account we have.

Lead vocal (Special sessions)Bass lineSynthesiserVerified5

What the sources do and do not say

One Sound On Sound interview with producer Ricky Reed (Paul Tingen, November 2022), read in full. It gives the vocal chain for the Special sessions generally and two song-specific details for About Damn Time (Memorymoog, Jazz Bass); drums, mix tools and Manny Marroquin's mix chain are not described for this song.

Lead vocal (Special sessions)

Lizzo

Microphone

Neumann U 47

Verified

Lizzo's vocal microphone in the home-base production room used for the Special sessions; a rental unit, as Reed did not bring his own.

Source: Sound On Sound, 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

Neve Unit (model not stated)

Verified

Vintage Neve unit that the rented U47 was run through in the Special sessions; the model and exact function are not stated.

Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

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

Tube-Tech CL 1B

Verified

Compressor in the same chain as the rented U47 and vintage Neve during the Special sessions.

Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

Emulation of this unit

Softube Tube-Tech CL 1B Mk II

compressor

Made with Tube-Tech as a model of the CL 1B.

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Bass line

Ricky Reed

Instrument

Fender Jazz Bass (model not stated)

VerifiedOne song

Reed picked up a Jazz Bass and came up with the song's bass line on it during the writing week.

Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

No plugin suggested. A bass guitar is the source of the sound, not a process applied to it. No plugin stands in for it.

Synthesiser

Ricky Reed

Instrument

Moog Memorymoog

VerifiedOne song

Hardware synthesiser Reed says he used on this song; the part it played is not stated.

Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

Approximate

Arturia Mini V

instrument

A Minimoog emulation. It has the Moog filter and character, but this is a different Moog.

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Sources

  1. Ricky Reed: Producing Lizzo, Sound On Sound, 2022-11. 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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