How It Was Recorded

Gear · microphone

Neumann TLM 103

Records it appears on · 4

  • bad guy

    Billie Eilish · When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, 2019

    • Lead vocal · MicrophoneReportedFinneas's vocal microphone around the time of the album: Mix says he had recently moved to it from an Audio-Technica AT2020. Not tied by anyone to this vocal
  • St. Elsewhere

    Gnarls Barkley · Album, 2006

    • Cee Lo Green vocals (album sessions at Maze Studios) · MicrophoneReportedMicrophone for Cee Lo Green's vocals, recorded in a booth at Maze Studios in Atlanta for the album.
  • Luv Is Rage 2

    Lil Uzi Vert · Album, 2017

    • Lead vocal · MicrophoneVerifiedRapper's preferred vocal microphone, in Studio B at Means Street, used for most of the album sessions.
  • Is This It

    The Strokes · Album, 2001

    • Lead vocal · MicrophoneVerifiedPicked up the sound of the small practice amp the vocalist sang through, to capture its detail, as the second vocal technique.Position: Miked on the small Peavey practice amp

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

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