Imogen Heap – Ellipse (Deluxe Version)

Imogen Heap was quoted on the Synthogy Ivory page, "Love my Ivory. My perspex piano loves it too. It's what I play live and have recorded quite a few of Ellipse's piano parts with it too. 'tis a wonderful thing"

At 1:00 in the "Making Of 2-1: Layering Samples" video, Imogen says "... he came in one day to play a part I had written in Logic on Plugsound Pro, mixture of that strings, and EastWest strings Gold Orchestra".

From Imogen Heap's interview with Sound On Sound: "Imogen's workhorse plug-ins at the mixing stage were the Focusrite D2 EQ and D3 compressor, along with the Waves Renaissance Compressor. The Waves S1 was also used for stereo spreading."

"Imogen's workhorse plug-ins at the mixing stage were the Focusrite D2 EQ and D3 compressor, along with the Waves Renaissance Compressor." (From Imogen Heap's interview with Sound On Sound.)

"Imogen's workhorse plug-ins at the mixing stage were the Focusrite D2 EQ and D3 compressor, along with the Waves Renaissance Compressor." (From Imogen Heap's interview with Sound On Sound magazine.)

Imogen says: "It's going through a massive long reverb in TrueVerb, and then volume-ridden and processed and reversed... and probably going through TrueVerb again! I love how you can have this little tiny sound that turns into a monster after a couple of hours of playing."

In the Sound on Sound article "Imogen Heap - Recording Ellipse," a photograph reveals Imogen Heap using a Digidesign Icon D-control console, underscoring its role in her recording process.

In Imogen Heap's interview with Sound On Sound magazine about her album Ellipse, the article states "In the end, all the vocals were recorded in the control room, with the mic shielded by an SE Electronics Reflexion Filter."

In Imogen Heap's interview with Sound On Sound magazine about her album Ellipse, a photo of her studio includes the caption: "This fixed rack houses the input chain used for non?vocal sources, and includes a Focusrite Liquid 4Pre preamp, Line 6 PodXT guitar processor, Korg rackmounted guitar tuner, TC?Helicon Voiceworks Plus vocal processor and Joemeek VC1 input channel and SC2.2 compressor."

In Imogen Heap's interview with Sound On Sound magazine about her album Ellipse, a photo of her studio includes the caption: "This fixed rack houses the input chain used for non?vocal sources, and includes a Focusrite Liquid 4Pre preamp, Line 6 PodXT guitar processor, Korg rackmounted guitar tuner, TC?Helicon Voiceworks Plus vocal processor and Joemeek VC1 input channel and SC2.2 compressor."

In Imogen Heap's interview with Sound On Sound magazine about her album Ellipse, a photo of her studio includes the caption: "This fixed rack houses the input chain used for non?vocal sources, and includes a Focusrite Liquid 4Pre preamp, Line 6 PodXT guitar processor, Korg rackmounted guitar tuner, TC-Helicon Voiceworks Plus vocal processor and Joemeek VC1 input channel and SC2.2 compressor."

As photographed in her Sound On Sound interview: "Imogen Heap's portable vocal recording chain, headed up by an Avalon VT737 input channel and also featuring an Electrix Repeater delay and a second TC?Helicon Voiceworks Plus."

Her vocals on the Ellipse album were recorded through the Avalon preamp.

In Imogen Heap's interview with Sound On Sound magazine about her album Ellipse, a photo of her studio includes the caption: "This fixed rack houses the input chain used for non?vocal sources, and includes a Focusrite Liquid 4Pre preamp, Line 6 PodXT guitar processor, Korg rackmounted guitar tuner, TC?Helicon Voiceworks Plus vocal processor and Joemeek VC1 input channel and SC2.2 compressor."

Used as the mic when recording Imogen´s vocals on the Ellipse album.

At 7:05 in the "The Making Of 2-1: Homemade Timpani" video from Future Music magazine, Imogen says "Something here says Korg EM... X. Which makes me think that I must have made that sound. On the Korg EMX."