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Eminem featuring Rihanna · Recovery, 2010

Love the Way You Lie

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What the sources do and do not say

One Sound On Sound Inside Track piece on Recovery, with a short section on this song. Eminem's microphone and preamp are described for the Recovery sessions generally, so those two rows are album-level. The article does not say which microphone or settings Rihanna's team used, and gives no settings or positions. The 2000 Mix article on the Bass Brothers was read and is about earlier albums.

Eminem rap vocal

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Eminem

Microphone

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    Sony C800

    VerifiedAlbum sessions

    Album sessions, not stated for this song: Eminem's usual vocal microphone in the live room at Effigy, which Strange says has been used for all his work with him.

    Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

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Input chain

Mix effects

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    Digidesign D-Verb

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    Plug-in reverb used while cutting Eminem's vocal to the two-track mix and kept in the final mix.

    Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

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    Digidesign Extra Long Delay

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    Plug-in delay used on Eminem's vocal while cutting and kept in the mix.

    Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

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    Bricasti Reverb (model not stated)

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    Reverb on Eminem's rap vocal, which Strange says almost always gets it along with the Eventide 2016.

    Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

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    LiquidSonics Seventh Heaven

    reverb

    Built from the Bricasti M7, the firm's main reverb, using its own presets. 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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    Eventide 2016

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    Reverb on Eminem's rap vocal, used alongside the Bricasti.

    Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

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    Emulation of this unit

    Eventide SP2016 Reverb

    reverb

    Eventide's own plugin version of the SP2016.

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Rihanna vocal

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Rihanna

Mix effects

Kick drum

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Mix effects

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    Waves RVerb

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    Plug-in on the kick that came in the producer's session and was left as delivered.

    Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

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    Waves REQ

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    EQ plug-in on the kick that came in the producer's session and was left as delivered.

    Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

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    The plugin used on the record

    Waves Renaissance Equalizer

    equaliser

    The plugin named in the source.

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    Waves Maxx Bass

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    Bass-enhancement plug-in on two further kick tracks, again from the producer's session.

    Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

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Sources

  1. Mike Strange Jr: Eminem Recovery, Sound On Sound, 2010-10. Accessed 15 Nov 2026.

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