How It Was Recorded

Gear · microphone

AKG C12A

Records it appears on · 3

  • Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

    Elton John · Album, 1973

    • Guitar (Davey Johnstone) · MicrophoneReportedHentschel believes an AKG C12A was on the guitar amplifier at the Château.
  • 21st Century Breakdown

    Green Day · Album, 2009

    • Drums · MicrophoneInferredUsual practice, not stated for this record: Tom mics, on top, summed with 414s underneath.Position: on top of the toms
  • What's Love Got to Do with It

    Tina Turner · Private Dancer, 1984

    • Lead vocal · MicrophoneVerifiedDistant second vocal microphone meant for the loud passages; it overloaded on her loudest singing.
    • Guitar · MicrophoneReportedOne of the microphones on the guitar amplifiers, in combination with the SM57 and SM58.

Sources for each use are on the record’s own page.

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