How It Was Recorded

Gear · microphone

Royer R-121

Records it appears on · 3

  • Lost Highway

    Bon Jovi · Album, 2007

    • Guitars · MicrophoneReportedSecond microphone alongside an SM57 on each guitar cabinet, used for shaping the cabinet tone.
  • 21st Century Breakdown

    Green Day · Album, 2009

    • Guitars · MicrophoneReportedThe first cabinet's mic chain might have included this ribbon mic, alongside a 57.Position: on one of two 4x12 cabinets, two mics per cabinet
  • Creepin'

    Metro Boomin, the Weeknd and 21 Savage · Heroes & Villains, 2022

    • Live strings · MicrophoneVerifiedMicrophone on the live strings recorded by Peter Lee Johnson.

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

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