How It Was Recorded

Gear · console

Universal Audio Tube console (model not stated)

Records it appears on · 1

  • Brown Sugar

    The Rolling Stones · Sticky Fingers, 1971

    • Console and tape · Input chainVerifiedTen-input tube-module console in a studio-built frame through which the Stones session was recorded, with a fixed low-end EQ and a limited high-end EQ.Settings: Fixed low EQ at 100 Hz (boost in two clicks of 2 and 4 dB, cut to minus 3); high EQ around 3.5 kHz in 2 dB steps

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Universal Audio UA 610 Tube Preamp & EQ Collection

preamp and EQ

Universal Audio's own model of its 610 valve console preamps. The source does not name the model, so this stands for the maker's family of units: it is not a model of the one on the record.

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