How It Was Recorded

Gear · microphone

Calrec Soundfield

Records it appears on · 1

  • Never Gonna Give You Up

    Rick Astley · Whenever You Need Somebody, 1987

    • Lead vocal · MicrophoneVerifiedMicrophone used to record Rick Astley's vocal; the engineer says it suited his powerful voice very well.

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

Get the sound

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