How It Was Recorded

Kylie Minogue · Golden, 2018

Dancing

What the sources do and do not say

One Sound On Sound Secrets of the Mix Engineers article with Sky Adams, covering his Logic mix of this song. Adams kept the Nashville vocal arrangement and rebuilt the production, so the vocal recording gear is not covered, only the plug-in processing. The article says Ozone 8 in the narrative and Ozone 7 in Adams's quote; the Aston mic model is only given elsewhere, for his studio in general.

Lead and backing vocals (processing on the Kylie vocal bus)

Kylie Minogue

Mix effects

Added to some individual vocal tracks as an effect to give the vocals a sheen, rather than purely for correction.

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.

First plug-in on the Kylie vocal bus, high-passing and boosting two bands.

Settings
High-pass at 69Hz; boosts at 285Hz and 3100Hz

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.

Second plug-in on the vocal bus, adding high end, some compression and a little reverb.

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.

Third plug-in on the vocal bus, giving presence, air and sharpness; he says it only suits the Aston microphone.

Settings
De-esser and compressor both at 50 percent

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.

Further compression on the vocal bus.

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.

Bus compression in the vocal chain after the dbx 160.

Settings
Ratio 2, attack 1, release 3

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.

Multiband processing on the vocal bus using the Pensado preset to add top end.

Settings
Pensado preset, adding above 8kHz

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.

Equaliser in the vocal chain, adding more high end.

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.

Waves RVox

Verified

Compressor in the vocal chain, which he says helps bring the vocal to the front.

Settings
Compressor set to 4.2

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.

Main reverb of the session, used mostly on the vocals.

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.

Acoustic guitars

Michael Stockwell

Instrument

Its Guitar instrument made sampled guitars placed under the real guitar, panned right, with the real guitar to the left and high-passed.

Position
Panned to the right, underneath the real guitar (which is panned left)

Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

The plugin used on the record

Native Instruments Kontakt

instrument

The plugin named in the source.

Microphone

Adams pointed his Aston microphone at Stockwell's acoustic guitar.

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.

Mix effects

In the acoustic guitar chain, mostly adding mid-range and high end.

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.

Part of the acoustic guitar plug-in chain, named as the Waves CLA Guitar.

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.

Part of the acoustic guitar chain; he says overdrive works on guitars as well as drums.

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.

Put on the acoustic guitars to imitate a side-chain pumping effect and add rhythm.

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.

Drums and percussion

Mix effects

Used on the drum and percussion tracks, which he says carry little else besides this and Space Designer.

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.

Reverb on the drum and percussion tracks, alongside Channel EQ.

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.

Piano

Sky Adams

Instrument

Source of the piano sound, with Channel EQ added on the piano track.

Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

The plugin used on the record

Native Instruments Kontakt

instrument

The plugin named in the source.

Mix effects

On the piano track, described as good for adding grit to keyboards.

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.

Vocal chops and master bus

Instrument

Apple EXS24

Reported

Used to generate an effect track of vocal cut-ups made from Kylie's vocal tracks.

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.

Mix effects

On the master bus doing a little limiting; Adams says Ozone 7, though the article text elsewhere says Ozone 8.

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.

Sources

  1. Inside Track: Kylie Minogue 'Dancing', Sound On Sound, 2018-07. 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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