How It Was Recorded

Gear · microphone

Neumann U47 (variant not stated)

Records it appears on · 2

  • Willow

    Taylor Swift · Evermore, 2020

    • 'Rubber bridge' guitars · MicrophoneVerifiedLow says the rubber-bridge guitars sound best recorded on this mic together with a DI.
  • Get the Knack

    The Knack · Album, 1979

    • Lead vocal · MicrophoneVerifiedMicrophone on Doug Fieger's lead vocal, recorded separately from the band to avoid spill.
    • Bass · MicrophoneReportedTube 47 microphone on the bass amp.

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

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Alternative

Warm Audio WA-47

A modern valve microphone built to the U 47's pattern by a different maker, so it stands in for the original, which has not been made since the 1960s, and is not one.

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