En Vogue · Funky Divas, 1992
My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)
11 sourced items across 4 sectionsVerified3Reported8
What the sources do and do not say
One Mix Classic Tracks article, read in full, with quotes from Steve Counter and Denzil Foster and recollections from Ken Kessie. Most gear is stated in the journalist's narrative, so those rows are reported. The Studer A827 row is album-level. The Trident 80B in Studio B is listed as room equipment only, so it has no row.
Group vocals
4 items
En Vogue
Microphone
The real chain
Telefunken Elam 250
Reported
Engineer Steve Counter chose this microphone for all four singers.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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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.
Input chain
The real chain
Neve 7198
Reported
Vintage mic/line mixer the vocal microphones were run through on the way to tape.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Approximate
Waves NLS Non-Linear Summer
console emulation
A console-summing plugin that includes one Neve desk. It gives a Neve flavour, not this console's channels.
The real chain
Teletronix LA-2A
Reported
Compressor in the vocal chain between the mic/line mixer and the tape machine.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Emulation of this unit
Universal Audio Teletronix LA-2A Leveler Collection
compressor
Universal Audio owns the Teletronix name; this is its own model of the LA-2A.
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- Waves CLA-2A Compressor / Limiter (Models an LA-2A from Chris Lord-Alge's collection. Cheaper and runs without UA hardware)
The real chain
Studer A800
Reported
Two-inch tape machine the vocals were recorded to.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Emulation of this unit
Universal Audio Studer A800 Tape Recorder
tape
Made with Studer as a model of the A800 multitrack.
Bass line
1 item
Denzil Foster
Instrument
The real chain
Korg M1
Verified
Foster programmed the bass line on this keyboard using an edited pluck bass patch that he made sound like a five-string bass.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Emulation of this unit
Korg KORG Collection
instrument
Korg's own software versions of its instruments, sold as a bundle that includes this one.
Beat
3 items
Instrument
The real chain
E-mu SP1200
Verified
Source of the hi-hat sounds in the beat, which were custom samples rather than factory sounds.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Emulation of this unit
Inphonik RX1200
instrument
An emulation of the SP-1200. You load your own samples.
The real chain
Akai MPC60
Verified
Source of the kick sound in the beat, which was a custom sample rather than a factory sound.
Source: Mix, 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
E-mu SP-12
Reported
One of the drum machines combined to make the underlying beat.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Close match
Inphonik RX1200
instrument
An emulation of the SP-1200, the SP-12's successor. You load your own samples.
Mix and final assembly
3 items
Ken Kessie
Mix effects
The real chain
SSL 4000 E Series
Reported
Console on which Kessie mixed most of the song, using its automation to mute instruments in different sections.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Emulation of this unit
Waves SSL E-Channel
channel strip
Made with SSL as a model of the 4000 E channel strip.
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- Solid State Logic SSL Native Channel Strip 2 (SSL's own channel-strip plugin, based on a later desk)
The real chain
Studer A827
ReportedAlbum sessions
Two machines were synchronised to carry the album's 30-plus tracks for the mix.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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Emulation of this unit
Slate Digital Virtual Tape Machines
tape
Includes a model of a two-inch Studer A827.
Also worth a look 1
- Universal Audio Studer A800 Tape Recorder (Models the A800, the A827's predecessor)
The real chain
Digidesign Sound Tools
Reported
Four-channel system Kessie used to join the finished mix to the later-recorded breakdown with digital crossfades.
Source: Mix, accessed 15 Nov 2026
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No plugin suggested. This is already software, so the stand-in is the thing itself. No product link has been added for it yet.
Sources
- Classic Tracks: En Vogue's "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)", Mix, 2006-10. Accessed 15 Nov 2026.
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