How It Was Recorded

George Ezra · Staying at Tamara's, 2018

Paradise

Lead vocalSnare programmingVerified5

What the sources do and do not say

Three-page Sound On Sound Inside Track with producer Cam Blackwood and mixer Dan Grech-Marguerat, covering the whole album with a few Paradise-specific remarks. Only statements that name the song are used here; most of the studio, drum, bass and guitar gear is album-level or general practice and is left out. Page 2 was read in full and holds no Paradise-specific gear (it is at .cache/pages/1ed6652d097f55e5.txt).

Lead vocal

George Ezra

Microphone

Shure SM7

Verified

Microphone George Ezra sang into for the lead vocal on Paradise.

Source: Sound On Sound, 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. Its successor, the SM7B, is still made.

Mix effects

AIR Spring Reverb

Verified

Plug-in spring reverb, used in a small amount on Ezra's voice on this song.

Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

No plugin suggested. This is already software, so the stand-in is the thing itself. No product link has been added for it yet.

Avid ProComp

Verified

Compressor plug-in that stays on the lead vocal in Blackwood's final session for this song.

Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

No plugin suggested. This is already software, so the stand-in is the thing itself. No product link has been added for it yet.

AIR Distortion

Verified

Distortion plug-in added to Ezra's vocal in Blackwood's final session for this song.

Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

No plugin suggested. This is already software, so the stand-in is the thing itself. No product link has been added for it yet.

Snare programming

Instrument

Linn LN1 drum kit sounds

Verified

Provides the snare sound, playing on beats two and four throughout the song.

Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

Emulation of this unit

Aly James Lab VProm

drum instrument

An emulation of Linn's LM-1 and LinnDrum, built around their sound chips.

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Sources

  1. Secrets of the Mix Engineers: Cam Blackwood & Dan Grech-Marguerat (page 3), Sound On Sound, 2018-06. Accessed 15 Nov 2026.
  2. Secrets of the Mix Engineers: Cam Blackwood & Dan Grech-Marguerat (page 1), Sound On Sound, 2018-06. 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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