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How It Was Recorded

Kylie Minogue · Fever, 2001

Can't Get You Out of My Head

9 sourced items across 6 sectionsVerified6Reported1Inferred2

What the sources do and do not say

Single source: Sound On Sound's May 2002 interview with co-writer and co-producer Rob Davis, which has a passage on this song. It gives the demo-style synth, sampler and guitar chain and says the work was done in his home studio and mixed in a Pro Tools room. The microphone and compressor rows describe Davis's usual vocal chain, not stated for this song; no mixer or engineer is named. The MusicRadar pieces on the song only repeat quotes from this interview.

Lead vocal

2 items

Kylie Minogue

Microphone

  • The real chain

    Neumann U 47

    InferredUsual practice

    Davis's usual vocal microphone in his home studio, plugged straight into the desk; the article says Kylie's vocals were recorded in that room but does not name the mic for this song.

    A suggestion, not a documented fact: Rob Davis describes this as usual practice; it is not stated for this record.

    Source: Sound On Sound, 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

    dbx Compressor (model not stated)

    InferredUsual practice

    Davis's usual vocal chain puts a little dbx compression after the microphone and before the computer.

    A suggestion, not a documented fact: Rob Davis describes this as usual practice; it is not stated for this record.

    Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

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    Waves dbx 160 Compressor / Limiter

    compressor

    dbx compressors are VCA designs, and this models the best known of them, the 160. 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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    • Universal Audio dbx 160 Compressor / Limiter (dbx compressors are VCA designs, and this models the best known of them, the 160. 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)

Wah-wah guitar

1 item

Rob Davis

Amplifier

  • The real chain

    Johnson J-Station

    Verified

    Source of the wah-wah guitar part on the track.

    Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

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    IK Multimedia AmpliTube 5

    amp and cabinet simulator

    An amp and cabinet modeller doing the same job of producing a finished guitar sound without a real amplifier; it is not a model of this unit.

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Bass

2 items

Instrument

Drums and percussion

1 item

Instrument

Strings, Wurlitzer and synth parts

2 items

Instrument

Final recording and mix

1 item

Mix effects

Sources

  1. Hit Songwriter (Rob Davis), Sound On Sound, 2002-05. Accessed 15 Nov 2026.

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