Jack White & Jack White – Lazaretto album cover

Jack White & Jack White – Lazaretto

Album 2014

The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2014 album Lazaretto.

Music from Lazaretto

Gear Used On Lazaretto

Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Jack White & Jack White – Lazaretto (2014). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.

Amplifiers used by Jack White on Lazaretto

Guitar Amplifier Heads

RCA Clubmaster

Avg price: $244.00

At 0:11 in this music video, one of the RCA Clubmaster amps that Jack White is using can be seen.

DJ Setup used by Jack White on Lazaretto

Tape Decks

RMG SM900 Studio Mastering Tape

Avg price: $72.45

Used to record the album Lazaretto. "We recorded to tape, initially just eight–track, to RMG 900 at 7.5ips. Jack loves that sound and we also are very happy with the quality. It has a hefty bass bump, almost an octave lower than 15ips, and the top end is flat until 20k. Something happens at the top end, above 4k, with tape compression; the sound is easier saturated and it meant that we never had to worry about things like de–essers. We did not hit the tape hard. In fact, we left tons of headroom, because it retains transients better."

Microphones used by Jack White on Lazaretto

Condenser Microphones

Neumann U47 FET

Avg price: $4,228.51

Used on the album "Lazaretto". I recorded Jack’s vocals mainly with a Shure SM57. Sometimes we used a Neumann U47, as well as an RCA 77D and a Shure SM7, and I often pushed his vocals hard through an 1176(...)

Ribbon Microphones

RCA 77D

Avg price: $1,449.99

Used on the album 'Lazarettto'. "I recorded Jack’s vocals mainly with a Shure SM57. Sometimes we used a Neumann U47, as well as an RCA 77D and a Shure SM7, and I often pushed his vocals hard through an 1176(...)"

Dynamic Microphones

Shure SM7

Avg price: $417.00

Used on the album 'Lazarettto'. "I recorded Jack’s vocals mainly with a Shure SM57. Sometimes we used a Neumann U47, as well as an RCA 77D and a Shure SM7, and I often pushed his vocals hard through an 1176(...)"

Ribbon Microphones

RCA BK-5B

Avg price: $1,357.80

Used on the album 'Lazaretto'. "I tend to like an RCA BK5B on Jack’s acoustic guitar, and occasionally an RCA 77, or an SM57 if everything else in the room was pretty loud."

Studio Equipment used by Jack White on Lazaretto

Effects Processors

Universal Audio 1176LN

Avg price: $2,466.75

Used on the album 'Lazarettto'. "I recorded Jack’s vocals mainly with a Shure SM57. Sometimes we used a Neumann U47, as well as an RCA 77D and a Shure SM7, and I often pushed his vocals hard through an 1176(...)"

Analog

Studer A-800 MKIII 24 Track Tape Recorder

Avg price: $13,134.49

Used to record Lazaretto, as stated in this October 2014 Sound on Sound interview.

All of Lazaretto was recorded to one or, usually, two of Third Man Studio’s Studer A800 two–inch machines, which have John French’s JFR Magnetic Science’s Ultimate Analogue eight–track headstacks with a proprietary ninth timecode track for link–up, which allows the two eight–track machines to be combined for 16–track recording. In addition, while Pro Tools was barely used in the making of Blunderbuss, it saw extensive mileage during the making of Lazaretto.

Analog

JFR Magnetic Sciences Ultimate Analogue MKII

Used to record Lazaretto, as stated in this October 2014 Sound on Sound interview.

All of Lazaretto was recorded to one or, usually, two of Third Man Studio’s Studer A800 two–inch machines, which have John French’s JFR Magnetic Science’s Ultimate Analogue eight–track headstacks with a proprietary ninth timecode track for link–up, which allows the two eight–track machines to be combined for 16–track recording. In addition, while Pro Tools was barely used in the making of Blunderbuss, it saw extensive mileage during the making of Lazaretto.

Studio Gear used by Jack White on Lazaretto

Preamps

AMS Neve 1073

Avg price: $3,925.63

Used to record the album 'Lazaretto' : "[Acoustic guitars] would go into the 1073, usually with a bit of 1176 compression."