SSL Console (model not stated)

Records it appears on · 7

• Love the Way You Lie

  Eminem featuring Rihanna · Recovery, 2010

  • Rihanna vocal · Mix effectsVerifiedConsole EQ and compression added lightly to Rihanna's seven stereo vocal tracks, which were otherwise left as supplied.
• Not Afraid

  Eminem · Recovery, 2010

  • Drums and percussion · Mix effectsReportedConsole EQ and a little compression on Boi-1da's drum tracks so they sat with the rest of the track.
• Metallica

  Metallica · Album, 1991

  • Tracking and mix chain · Input chainReportedTracking at One on One went through the studio’s SSL console.
• Closer

  Nine Inch Nails · The Downward Spiral, 1994

  • Drum programming · Input chainVerifiedThe sampled snare was run through an SSL console to add distortion.
• West End Girls

  Pet Shop Boys · Please, 1986

  • Recording chain and street ambience · Input chainVerifiedConsole the single was recorded through; the engineer says he does not use its VCAs when recording.
• So

  Peter Gabriel · Album, 1986

  • Recording machines, console and effects · Mix effectsVerifiedKillen says he stored the running mixes on the SSL and documented them so they could be recalled for later overdubs.
• Nothing Compares 2 U

  Sinéad O'Connor · I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, 1990

  • Lead vocal · Mix effectsVerifiedMix console at Eden Studios; Birkett rode its automation syllable by syllable and rode the EQ by hand to tame the overloaded high-mids in the uncompressed vocal.

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

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