How It Was Recorded

Gear · di box

Avalon U5

Records it appears on · 3

  • 21st Century Breakdown

    Green Day · Album, 2009

    • Bass · Input chainReportedDirect input for Dirnt's bass.
  • Continuum

    John Mayer · Album, 2006

    • Bass · Input chainReportedMono instrument preamp and DI for the bass.
  • V

    Maroon 5 · Album, 2014

    • Bass · Input chainVerifiedDirect-input side of the bass sound, blended with a cabinet.

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

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