How It Was Recorded

Gear · microphone

Neumann M149

Records it appears on · 2

  • Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

    OutKast · Album, 2003

    • Vocals (album sessions) · MicrophoneVerifiedFrye says these microphones give a nice clean signal.
  • Surfacing

    Sarah McLachlan · Album, 1998

    • Lead vocal · MicrophoneVerifiedProducer says it replaced the Neumann U47 as the microphone on McLachlan's voice from the Surfacing sessions onward, because its top end was sweeter and needed no EQ at the mix.

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

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