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How It Was Recorded

The Lumineers · The Lumineers, 2012

Ho Hey

7 sourced items across 2 sectionsVerified6Reported1

What the sources do and do not say

Sound On Sound Inside Track with mixer Kevin Augunas, who mixed the song in 2011 from an existing Pro Tools session recorded by Ryan Hadlock. It covers the mix and the Fairfax overdubs, not the original tracking, so no original microphones or amps are listed.

Lead and background vocals

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Wesley Schultz

Amplifier

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    Altec A7 speaker

    Verified

    Played the track back in the live room instead of headphones, so the band moved about while singing and clapping and the song bled into the mic.

    Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

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    No plugin suggested. Used for listening back, so it is not part of the recorded signal. There is nothing for a plugin to stand in for.

Microphone

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    Neumann M49

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    Mic in the Fairfax live room for the overdubbed "ho hey" parts, stomps, claps, banter and background vocals, tripled across left, centre and right.

    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.

Mix effects

Mix chain

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Mix effects

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    Studer B67

    Verified

    Quarter-inch two-track used as a slapback tape delay.

    Position
    Fed from the pre-fade send on the monitoring board

    Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

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    Approximate

    Slate Digital Virtual Tape Machines

    tape

    Models two Studer machines, not this recorder. It gives the general behaviour of analogue multitrack tape.

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    Unidentified Echo chamber (model not stated)

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    Studio echo chamber supplying the reverb; he says all the echo on the album came from it.

    Position
    Fed from the post-fade send on the monitoring board

    Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

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    Covers this kind of unit

    Universal Audio Capitol Chambers

    reverb

    A real echo chamber, the same method as the one on the record: a loudspeaker and microphones in a hard, empty room. It is not a model of this chamber, so set the decay by ear.

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    Universal Audio EQ (model not stated)

    Reported

    Old equalisers on the stereo mix, adding a little top end and perhaps some low end. (recalled with uncertainty)

    Settings
    A little added at 10 kHz and perhaps a bit of low end around 100 Hz

    Source: Sound On Sound, accessed 15 Nov 2026

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Sources

  1. Inside Track: The Lumineers, Sound On Sound, 2013-03. Accessed 15 Nov 2026.

What the ratings mean

Verified

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Reported

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