How It Was Recorded

Gear · microphone

Sony C37A

Records it appears on · 3

  • Chaos and the Calm

    James Bay · Album, 2014

    • Lead vocal · MicrophoneVerifiedUsed on Bay's lead vocal in place of the usual SM7, to give his voice the extra top-end air it needed.
  • Sheryl Crow

    Sheryl Crow · Album, 1996

    • Lead vocal · MicrophoneReportedChosen vocal microphone for Crow's control-room vocals on the album sessions, after trying a U47; its pop-screen coped with her volume so she could sing close.
  • Hair

    The Cowsills · The Cowsills in Concert, 1969

    • Drum kit · MicrophoneReportedUsed as a pair of overhead mics on the kit.

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

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