How It Was Recorded

Dolly Parton · Here You Come Again, 1977

Here You Come Again

Lead vocalSteel guitarKeyboardsBasic track recordingStringsVerified3Reported4

What the sources do and do not say

One Mix Classic Tracks article (originally June 2017) covering this song, with Steiner and Foster quoted. Mic models are mostly unstated and several details are hedged recollections. No settings or outboard processing are given.

Lead vocal

Dolly Parton

Microphone

Neumann M49

Reported

Engineer Armin Steiner thinks this was probably the microphone used on Parton's vocal, recorded live with the band.

Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026

No plugin suggested. Microphone-modelling plugins only work with their own matched hardware microphone, so there is no plugin to link. Placement and the room matter more than the model.

Steel guitar

Al Perkins

Instrument

Unidentified Steel guitar (model not stated)

Reported

Al Perkins was hired to play subtle steel guitar on the track, which Parton had urged the producer to add.

Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026

No plugin suggested. A guitar is the source of the sound, not a process applied to it. No plugin stands in for it.

Keyboards

David Foster

Instrument

Fender Rhodes

Verified

Played by Foster on the basic track, where it opens the song.

Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026

Emulation of this unit

Arturia Stage-73 V

instrument

A physical model of the Rhodes Stage and Suitcase electric pianos.

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Unidentified Acoustic piano (model not stated)

Verified

Foster overdubbed an acoustic piano part that exactly doubled his Rhodes part.

Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026

No plugin suggested. The source does not name the model, so no specific plugin can be suggested.

Basic track recording

Input chain

Quad Eight Custom console

Verified

Steiner says the track was recorded through a Quad Eight console that he had designed and made himself.

Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026

Covers this kind of unit

MixWave Quad Eight MM-310

preamp and EQ

Models Quad Eight's MM-310 preamp and three-band EQ module, made with Quad Eight. 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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Unidentified Tape recorder (model not stated)

Reported

Steiner had first used Stephens recorders and later Studer 800s, but cannot recall which was in use when this song was cut.

Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026

Approximate

Slate Digital Virtual Tape Machines

tape

Models two Studer machines, not this recorder. It gives the general behaviour of analogue multitrack tape.

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Also worth a look: Universal Audio Studer A800 Tape Recorder (Models a Studer A800, not this recorder. It gives the general behaviour of analogue multitrack tape).

Strings

Nick DeCaro (arranger)

Microphone

Unidentified Overhead microphones (model not stated)

Reported

Steiner recalls probably a couple of overhead microphones on the small string section overdubbed after the track was cut.

Position
overhead

Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026

No plugin suggested. Microphone-modelling plugins only work with their own matched hardware microphone, so there is no plugin to link. Placement and the room matter more than the model.

Sources

  1. Classic Tracks: Dolly Parton, "Here You Come Again", Mix, 2017-06. Accessed 15 Nov 2026.
Verified

Stated by the engineer, producer or artist, or by the manufacturer.

Reported

Stated by a reputable secondary source.

Inferred

An educated suggestion, not a documented fact.

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