Yamaha NS-10 woofer wired as a microphone

Records it appears on · 3

• Get Lucky

  Daft Punk · Random Access Memories, 2013

  • Drum kit · MicrophoneVerifiedFourth kick source for very low bottom end, on its own track
• In Your Honor

  Foo Fighters · Album, 2005

  • Kick drum · MicrophoneReportedSpeaker with its leads reversed so it acts as a microphone for the kick drum, plugged into a mic preamp that needed a great deal of gain.
• Continuum

  John Mayer · Album, 2006

  • Electric guitar amps · MicrophoneVerifiedReversed NS10 speaker used when a beefy low end was wanted from a guitar cabinet.Position: right up on the cone of one of his cabinets
  • Bass · MicrophoneVerifiedAlmost always placed on the bass cabinet to capture the very low end; never compressed.

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

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