How It Was Recorded

Gear · microphone

Avantone CV-12

Records it appears on · 3

  • Love Story

    Taylor Swift · Fearless, 2008

    • Lead vocal · MicrophoneVerifiedTaylor Swift's lead vocal microphone, a multi-pattern tube model fitted with a new-old-stock tube by Ray Kennedy.
  • Mine

    Taylor Swift · Speak Now, 2010

    • Lead vocal · MicrophoneVerifiedAlbum sessions, not stated for this song: Chapman's microphone for Swift's vocals, as used on the demos that became the record's vocals.
  • Speak Now

    Taylor Swift · Album, 2010

    • Lead vocal · MicrophoneVerifiedChapman's microphone for Swift's lead vocals on the album.

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

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