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How It Was Recorded

Sinéad O'Connor · Album, 1990

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

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 album1

From the album sessions2

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.

  • Lead vocalVerified

    AKG C 414 B-ULS

    Album sessions, not stated for this song: Birkett's chosen vocal microphone for O'Connor, picked because it copes with her wide dynamics where a Neumann would have distorted.

    From the record for Nothing Compares 2 U, where the source is linked.

  • Lead vocalReported

    Lexicon PCM 70

    Album sessions, not stated for this song: Birkett built a custom reverb from the Cascade programme, used in O'Connor's headphone monitoring and in the mix.

    From the record for Nothing Compares 2 U, where the source is linked.