How It Was Recorded

Gear · delay

Eventide Harmonizer (model not stated)

Records it appears on · 3

  • Seven and the Ragged Tiger

    Duran Duran · Album, 1984

    • Lead and backing vocals · Input chainInferredUsual practice, not stated for this record: Applied to Simon Le Bon's voice to blur his pitch, a small shift up, down or both, alongside delays, reverbs and perhaps chorus.Settings: very small percentage pitch-shift up or down or both
  • Rise

    Herb Alpert · Rise, 1979

    • Handclaps · Mix effectsVerifiedHahn says he later used an Eventide Harmonizer on the handclaps.
  • The Rise & Fall

    Madness · Album, 1982

    • Saxophone and trumpet · Mix effectsVerifiedUsed heavily on the saxophone, according to the engineer's account of the mix.

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

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