How It Was Recorded

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Custom Cardboard mailing tube

Records it appears on · 1

  • Billie Jean

    Michael Jackson · Thriller, 1982

    • Verse-two answer vocal ("don't think twice") · MicrophoneVerifiedAcoustic effect: the line was sung through the tube into the microphoneSettings: Roughly 4 inches in diameter and about 3 feet long, per Forger

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