Bob Dylan & Robert Zimmerman – Modern Times
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2006 album Modern Times.
Music from Modern Times
Artists on Modern Times
Gear Used On Modern Times
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Bob Dylan & Robert Zimmerman – Modern Times (2006). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
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Microphones used by Bob Dylan on Modern Times
Brüel & Kjær 4011 Condenser Microphone
Avg price: $2,180.67
Used to record the acoustic guitar on "Someday Baby", as mentioned by sound engineer Chris Shaw in this December 31, 2008 Electronic Musician article.
Bob Dylan won the GRAMMY Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance in 2006 for the song “Someday Baby,” from the Modern Times LP, which itself garnered a GRAMMY for Best Contemporary Folk/American Album. Chris Shaw was looking for a dense, Muddy Waters-like sound for the track. He placed a Neumann KM 84 microphone on the bottom of a snare drum purposely selected for its “crappy” sound, with a Shure Bullet microphone on the top on a stand over the kick drum, and rounded the center of the kit off with a Shure SM57 on the rack tom. Dylan’s Gibson Everly Brothers model acoustic guitar is usually recorded using one B&K 4011 pointed at the 12th fret. The distant-sounding slide guitar, played by Larry Campbell, is mixed hard left and owes its spooky allure to the Neumann U87 room microphones.
