Christina Aguilera · Christina Aguilera, 1999
Genie in a Bottle
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What the sources do and do not say
Single source: Mike Senior's April 2000 Sound On Sound interview with producer and co-writer David Frank, recorded at his Canyon Reverb home studio. It covers the programmed backing track and keyboards in detail and the vocal chain briefly. Frank also tried Neumann U67, M149 and TLM 103 on the vocal but did not use them, so they are not rows. Mixing (Dave Way) and mastering (Eddie Schreyer) are named without gear.
Lead vocal
2 items
Christina Aguilera
Input chain
The real chain
Avalon VT737SP
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Valve channel the vocal was recorded through, with only light compression.
Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Universal Audio Avalon VT-737 Tube Channel Strip
channel strip
Made with Avalon as a model of the VT-737sp channel strip.
Mix effects
The real chain
Drawmer Plug-in (model not stated)
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Software plug-in that effectively band-pass filtered the thin-sounding vocals.
Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Bass
1 item
David Frank
Instrument
The real chain
Korg TR-Rack
Verified
Bass sound taken directly from the module's patch 'Mr. Impact'.
- Settings
- Patch D005 'Mr. Impact'
Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Emulation of this unit
Korg KORG Collection
instrument
The collection includes Korg's own software Trinity, the workstation whose sound engine the TR-Rack contains.
Drums and percussion
3 items
David Frank
Instrument
The real chain
Akai MPC60
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Source of most of the drum sounds, including the basic kick and snare, used unprocessed and triggered from Logic.
Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Approximate
Akai Professional MPC Beats
instrument · free
Akai's free MPC software. It gives the MPC way of working, not the sound of this hardware.
The real chain
Korg TR-Rack
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Supplied the fast 32nd-note filler kick and the clap sound.
Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Emulation of this unit
Korg KORG Collection
instrument
The collection includes Korg's own software Trinity, the workstation whose sound engine the TR-Rack contains.
The real chain
Yamaha EX5
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Used for most of the small rhythmic elements, such as the dull scrubbing sound.
Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Korg KORG Collection
instrument
A 1990s-style sample-based workstation collection (M1, Trinity, Triton), so it builds sounds from stored samples through filters and effects in the same way; it is not a model of this unit.
Synths and keys
4 items
David Frank
Instrument
The real chain
Clavia Nord Rack
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Used for the synth sounds in the introduction, shaped by hand with the knobs and pitch-bend while playing.
Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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discoDSP Discovery
instrument
A virtual-analogue synth modelled on the Nord Lead 2, the direct successor to the synth inside this rack.
The real chain
Yamaha EX5
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Played both pads, a warm pad and a single-note string line.
Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Covers this kind of unit
Korg KORG Collection
instrument
A 1990s-style sample-based workstation collection (M1, Trinity, Triton), so it builds sounds from stored samples through filters and effects in the same way; it is not a model of this unit.
The real chain
Roland JP-8000
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Source of the chorus brass stabs, from a patch he programmed himself.
Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Emulation of this unit
Arturia Jup-8000 V
instrument
An emulation of the JP-8000.
The real chain
Moog Minimoog
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Used by Steve Kipner for Syndrum-like sounds near the end, for their fatness.
Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Emulation of this unit
Arturia Mini V
instrument
Model of the Minimoog Model D.
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- Universal Audio Moog Minimoog (Minimoog model made with Moog)
Sources
- Recording Christina Aguilera's 'Genie In A Bottle', Sound On Sound, 2000-04. Accessed 15 Nov 2026.
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